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When the heart says Baltimore and the head says D.C.
Five years ago, I thought I might have to leave Baltimore. Not because I wanted to but because I thought I needed to. It was 2008. Like many employers, Urbanite magazine, where I worked, was feeling the effects of the Great Recession, so I would soon...
Tags: East Baltimore Development Inc., Bill Clinton, The New York Times, Brookings Institution, Elections
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McManus: Inching toward Syria
Military intervention in the Muslim world seems to bring the United States nothing but grief. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya: None looks much like a success story now. Yet the Obama administration is edging reluctantly into a civil war in Syria, aiding rebels...
Tags: Iraq, Bashar Assad, Islam, Religion and Belief, Wars and Interventions
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Obama, Libya and the ghosts of '68
In 2008, Democratic voters had their pick of many candidates for president — from Hillary Clinton to John Edwards to Joe Biden. Why did they choose Barack Obama?
After all, he had less experience in office than many of his rivals. He was not as...Tags: Dennis J. Kucinich, New Hampshire, Wars and Interventions, Wisconsin, Iowa
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While Syria burns, Obama stands idly by
WASHINGTON — Last year President Barack Obama ordered U.S. intervention in Libya under the grand new doctrine of "Responsibility to Protect." Moammar Gadhafi was threatening a massacre in Benghazi. To stand by and do nothing "would have been a...
Tags: Massacres, NATO, Bashar Assad, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Washington, DC
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Figuring out professor Obama's war
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is proud of how he put together the Libyan operation. A model of international cooperation. All the necessary paperwork. Arab League backing. A Security Council resolution. (Everything but a resolution from the...Tags: Armed Conflicts, Libyan Civil War (2011), NATO, Barack Obama, Charles Krauthammer
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What we learned in Iraq
Ten years ago this week, Americans were about to be introduced to a strange new concept, as they awaited the U.S. war to bring regime change in Iraq. Coined by American military officers, it encapsulated a situation in which everything went right until...
Tags: Armed Conflicts, International Military Interventions, Barack Obama, Iraq War (2003-2011), Iraq
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2012: From Arab Spring to early winter
Meteorologists know seasons are predictable. In the weather world, spring is always followed by summer. But the political world is different. Spring can proceed to summer, or it can lead to a sudden onset of winter. That was the case this year in the...Tags: Punishment, Pakistan, NATO, Awards and Prizes, Arab Spring
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An exit interview with Rep. David Dreier
David Dreier was 26, still living in a dorm at Claremont McKenna College and working as a college administrator, when he ran for Congress the first time, in 1978. He lost then but never thereafter. Sixteen times, Dreier was elected to the House of...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, John F. Kennedy, Parties and Movements, Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger
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A Christian magazine helps put anti-Muslim bigotry in perspective
Just as Lehigh Valley educator and Muslim leader Mohamed Bugaighis prepared to board a plane to Libya, a Christian magazine offered some fascinating insights into some of the conflicts that keep much of the Islamic world racked with strife. I discussed...
Tags: Roman Catholicism, Separation of Church and State, Newspaper and Magazine, Islam, Religion and Belief
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Foreign policy surprises ahead
Americans who watched Monday's debate learned that Mitt Romney wanted to sound like Barack Obama on major world issues and that Obama wanted to highlight the contrasts. They learned that Romney can be vague and Obama can be condescending. They learned...
Tags: Nuclear Policy, Barack Obama, U.S. Military, Iraq, Taiwan
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A genuine freedom fighter heads for peril in Libya — again
On Friday, the Lehigh Valley's gutsiest freedom fighter will once again head for Libya, his native land. He was there when the monstrous Moammar Gadhafi took power in a 1969 coup, he was there for the first eight years of Gadhafi's rule, resisting the...Tags: Christopher Stevens, NATO, Political Systems, Democracy, Separation of Church and State
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We want justice in the Middle East — but we're tired of war
What do Americans want done with killers in Libya who murdered U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others on Sept. 11, our national day of mourning? We want their heads stuffed into a burlap bag. We want to see that bag tossed into some town...
Tags: Christopher Stevens, Barack Obama, White House, Parties and Movements, Iraq
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Mar 17, 2013
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Dec 23, 2012
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Oct 10, 2012
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Sep 29, 2012
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Oct 25, 2012
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Sep 26, 2012
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Sep 16, 2012
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