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President Obama is to be applauded for questioning Mitt Romney’s legacy, although his motives seem to be as opportunistic as those of Romney’s primary race opponents.

Hey, look it over—public ownership is the most effective way to fix America’s economy.

Even after it was known that Jamie Dimon’s bank blew more than $2 billion, Barack Obama still had praise for the intellect of his political backer.

A postwar German novelist’s complicated legacy.

Once again President Barack Obama has come tantalizingly close to being terrific.

Why are Yale and other top universities teaching a Grand Strategy seminar if the conditions that seemed to call for grand strategizing no longer exist?

At the first International Drone Summit, advocates call for transparency and an end to the US policies that rain terror from the sky.

Last words to an America in decline.

We do not care a whit about their human rights as long as they satiate our unbridled appetites.

Does anyone care that the economy is floundering and that we are not getting out of this crisis anytime soon?