President Barack Obama decided this week against achieving a final agreement before the expiration of the July 10 deadline, which would have limited the period of Congressional consideration of the agreement. The motivation was the desire to neutralize criticism that...
Baghdad suffered several bombing attacks on Sunday but, in good news, the World Bank has agreed to supply Iraq with some reconstruction funds. The World Bank has agreed to lend the Iraqi government $350 million to fund emergency infrastructure repair in towns rescued...
There's a group of GOP presidential aspirants who have a next-to-zero chance of clinching the nomination who've decided that their main issue, the central organizing principle of their campaigns, is going to be needling Rand Paul. While Lindsey Graham is competing for...
The Iran nuclear talks may be getting close to some sort of conclusion in Vienna, but American political and policy elites remain, to an appallingly large extent, clueless as to what is really at stake in the negotiations. (This was a significant theme yesterday in...
On Wednesday, ABC news reported that George W. Bush earned $100,000 from a 2012 speech. He also charged $20,000 for a private jet to the event. As nauseating as that figure is – plus another $50,000 for a previous Laura Bush speech – the news has earned more...
At least 168 were killed and 59 more were wounded: In Baghdad, a car bomb killed seven people and wounded 18 others in one of two attacks in Zaafaraniya. In the second attack, a sticky bomb killed two militiamen. A blast in Bayaa killed three people and wounded nine...
The likely nuclear agreement between Iran and P5+1 – the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany – is opposed by many. The reasons for the opposition to the agreement vary, depending on who or which country opposes it, but the...
