Ebola vs. civil liberties
WASHINGTON — Unnervingly, the U.S. public health services remain steps behind the Ebola virus. Contact tracing is what we do, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden assured...
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The double game our allies play
WASHINGTON — During the 1944 Warsaw uprising, Stalin ordered the advancing Red Army to stop at the outskirts of the city while the Nazis, for 63 days, annihilated the noncommunist...
Why winning the Senate matters
— You can win midterm elections without a positive agenda. You can't win presidential elections that way. It is, therefore, vitally important for Republicans to win the Senate in 2014....
Containment-plus: Obama’s real Syria strategy
WASHINGTON — Late, hesitant and reluctant as he is, President Barack Obama has begun effecting a workable strategy against the Islamic State. True, he's been driven there by public opinion....
Jihadi bank on an Obama retreat
What was the Islamic State thinking? We know it is sophisticated in its use of modern media. But what was the logic of propagating to the world videos of its...
Obama’s uncertain trumpet
— In his recent Islamic State speech, President Barack Obama said many of the right things. Most importantly, he finally got the mission right: degrade and destroy the enemy. This...
Obama spouts lame refrain as Putin bullies Ukraine
At his first press briefing after the beheading of American James Foley, President Barack Obama stunned the assembled when he admitted that he had no strategy in Syria for confronting...
The best way to keep companies in U.S.
The Obama administration is highly exercised about "inversion," the practice by which an American corporation acquires a foreign company and moves its headquarters out of the U.S. to benefit from...
Obama’s weak case for strong action
Baghdad called President Barack Obama's bluff and he came through. He had refused to provide air support to Iraqi government forces until the Iraqis got rid of their divisive sectarian...
Clinton’s right — Obama has no direction
"Great nations need organizing principles, and, 'Don't do stupid stuff,' is not an organizing principle." Hillary Clinton, The Atlantic, Aug. 10 Leave it to President Barack Obama's own former secretary...