... group of former CIA officers have launched a website defending the agency. Overseas, the L.A. Times writes, the report shows the duplicity of the U.S. human rights record. Mr. Obama is set to unveil $1 billion in public and private funding for preschools today. MIT health economist and ...
... the Ferguson grand jury decision not to indict, we're watching reaction all over the country. What does it say about the state of race relations in this country today? MARK SHIELDS: I don't know if it says as much about the state of race relations as it certainly ...
... American Girl dolls, My Little Pony and Fisher-Price Little People. The miniature plastic soldiers have been around since 1938 and represent mid-20th century U.S. Army infantry soldiers. Their popularity dwindled during the Vietnam War but their sales picked up in the 1980s and 1990s, especially after they ...
... names were assigned mainly to preserve security. The code names were classified, unlike the nicknames of modern operations. In a 1995 article in Parameters, a U.S. Army War College academic journal, Gregory C. Sieminski wrote that the Pentagon's Vietnam-era guidelines for naming military operations cautioned against counterproductive ...
... While the U.S. is not a claimant itself, it says it has a national interest in sustaining open navigation and trade through those waters. U.S.-China relations have also been strained by U.S. accusations of cyber espionage, and Russel said the U.S. would raise its concerns ...
... Federal Reserve in August 1979. At the time, many thought the seemingly inexorable increase in inflation could not be reversed. There was undeserved skepticism the U.S. would ever again see home mortgage rates in the single digits, for example. Volcker didn’t believe this. He made a dramatic break ...
... and has Ukrainian roots himself, says that the east/west divide in Ukraine has been overstated. PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MOTYL: What people do here in the U.S. and especially the media, frankly, is they-- they make that fundamental mistake of comparing the two extremes and then projecting those characteristics on ...
... how the Chinese are reacting to this continually unfolding story, we are joined now from San Francisco by Orville Schell, he heads the center on U.S. - China relations at the Asia Society. So Orville, how is this story playing out in China? ORVILLE SCHELL: Well I think since Chinese ...
What will life in America be like in 2050? Turns out 54 percent of participants in a recent survey expect it to go downhill, while only 23 percent think it will improve. Photo illustration by Sonja Dahlgren/Getty Images WASHINGTON -- Ask people to imagine American life in 2050, and you'll get some dreary visions. Whether...
Shoppers in the Paragon mall in Bangkok, Thailand. Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images. No matter how many Washington think tank conferences one covers, all their accumulated wisdom is no substitute for going to the countries they are talking about. In that spirit, I am back from a month in Asia -- Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore...
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