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Steven Hill, a director at the Washington-based New America Foundation, has just published a book, Europe's Promise, which argues that "the European way is the best hope in an insecure age ...

Atlantic Monthly columnist Megan McArdle has argued that if the act was "part of the problem, it would be the commercial banks, not the investment banks, ...

But the truth is that newspapers experienced an unprecedented rise in prosperity between 1960 and 2005, as former Washington Post managing editor Steve Coll ...

Back in 2005 the country that former CIA-man Flynt Leverett described as "a comparatively small, internally conflicted, economically underperforming, ...

By The People, a new documentary about Barack Obama's campaign for president now airing on HBO, gets up close. We see Obama sitting on a curb, alone, moments before taking the podium at an event. We see Michelle Obama at home in Chicago with her children. We see the future president riding in a convertible, waving -- and we wonder: where is the secret service? The cameras are close enough, in fact, to see the single tear of the 2008 campaign course down Obama's face.

Sameer Lalwani is a research fellow at the Washington-based New America Foundation:

"I think the expectation will be for the Obama administration to leverage pressure on the Karzai government to 'clean up' his governing style but I doubt Karzai will do so, certainly not quickly," said Lalwani.

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