The military officer corps is rumbling with dissatisfaction and dissent, and there are suggestions from some that if officers disagree with policy decisions by Congress and the White House, they should vigorously resist. Officers have a moral responsibility, some argue, to sway a policy debate by going public with their objections or leaking information to [...]
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who has made clear his desire to leave office next year, said he has “made up my mind” about when to offer his resignation. But he wouldn’t say when, and he declined to say whether he intends to be in office next July for a critical strategic review of the war [...]
The national debt surpassed trillion in June. A Pew Research poll shows that 55 percent of Americans have seen a decline in their income since the Great Recession started, consumer confidence has dropped by twenty percent, and the markets took a plunge. Alyona asks if we are headed for a double dip, a third depression. Alyona discusses what the stock markets are indicating with Reason Foundation policy analyst Anthony Randazzo.
NEW YORK — “The U.S. is changing the way we do business.” With those words, President Obama, who arrived here Wednesday and took center stage late afternoon on Day 3 of the massive United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit, announced an ambitious, even radical, overhaul of American foreign policy, investment, and practice: the U.S. Global [...]
Japan’s central bank announced new measures to combat a faltering economy and rising yen on Monday, but held off from bolder steps, while the government said it would unveil a fresh stimulus plan, Hiroko Tabuchi writes in The New York Times. Separately, Prime Minister Naoto Kan suggested that the government would outline a new stimulus [...]
Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) plans a major policy speech in which he will pick apart the the Obama administration’s approach to national security. The address by the the House minority leader will take on Middle East issues and the global war on terrorism and will highlight his concerns “about how Washington is implementing the new [...]
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