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Following from in Front

Feature Article by , December 29, 2012

Top Stories of 2012: #4 Story #4 is about America’s current foreign policy, but in this article, my goal is not to recap my previous coverage from this year but to complete it by providing an overview of the big picture. The big picture of our foreign policy is that America is following from behind. [...]

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In the Field

Feature Article by , December 12, 2012

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The Buck Stops There

Feature Article by , October 21, 2012

As I noted in my newsletter for RealClearPolitics, Mitt Romney’s failure in the second debate to drive home his criticism of President Obama on the 9/11 attacks in Benghazi (with a little ref interference from Candy Crowley) does not put an end to the issue. Instead, it “tees up the Libya debacle as a prime [...]

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The Old Regime and the Egyptian Revolution

Feature Article by , June 27, 2012

Originally published in TIA Daily. Alexis de Tocqueville is well remembered in America for his perceptive and eloquent chronicle of our young republic, Democracy in America. But Tocqueville was interesting in studying America so that he could bring his lessons back to France, whose own experience with republicanism was, shall we say, not as felicitous. [...]

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