Nov 15 Political Checklist: Lame Duck Confit DetectFlashDecision_Blog('news01s455dqfc4', 'news01s455dqfc4', '29'); Today is the first day of the lame-duck session of the 111th Congress. What will (and what won't) they accomplish in the next few months before a new, more Republican Congress is sworn in? Gwen… Continue reading
Nov 15 GOP Midterm Victory Seen as Ordinary Tidal Change By Dante Chinni Two weeks after the 2010 midterms, the results are receding into the past, and the new reality is settling in. But before we go too far down the road of analyzing the shift in the American voting public - the… Continue reading
Nov 15 Rangel's Ethics Trial, Lame Duck Begin Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. File photo by Getty Images. As dozens of newly-elected members of Congress arrive this week for freshmen orientation, one veteran lawmaker begins his fight to save his job. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., after months… Continue reading
Nov 12 The Doubleheader: Shields and Brooks on Taxes, Palin and Cowboys Coaching By Hari Sreenivasan In this week's Doubleheader with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks, topic No. 1 was the expiring Bush-era tax cuts and what will happen during the lame-duck session of Congress. Both predicted that the cuts… Continue reading
Nov 12 Watch Reported Russian Spy Defection, Hunt Stirs Up Cold War Memories Russian newspaper Kommersant reported that a top-ranking official in its spy service known only as Colonel Shcherbakov outed spies earlier this year to the U.S. He and his family reportedly have left Russia for the U.S. with a Russian hit… Continue watching
Nov 12 Watch Shields and Brooks on Tax Cuts, Debt, Lame-Duck Congress, Bush Book Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks sort through the top political stories, including the debate over extending tax cuts, prospects for the lame-duck Congress, criticism of debt commission ideas and former President Bush's new book. Continue watching
Nov 12 Supreme Court Refuses to Block 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' By News Desk The Supreme Court refused to block enforcement of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy on openly gay servicemembers Friday, the latest in a series of court battles over the policy. The legal challenge came from the Log… Continue reading
Nov 12 LIFE Releases Never Before Published Photos of John F. Kennedy This week marked the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's election as the nation's 35th president. At 43 years old, Kennedy became the youngest man to be elected to the office, and the nation's first and only Catholic… Continue reading
Nov 12 Truth and Consequences: Or What Happens When The Election Ends Former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, a Republican, and former Clinton White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, a Democrat, have been to this rodeo before. That's why they waited one week and one day to drop their post-election bombshell. By… Continue reading
Nov 12 Diplomacy and 21st Century Statecraft While the title of Senior Adviser for Innovation at the State Department may sound vague, the problems Alec Ross and his colleagues tackle are very real; from poverty to pandemics, from disaster to diplomacy. Continue reading