▼ Author Community Vote 69 days ago Myglesias McCain Vulnerable to Challenge from the Right - — Rasmussen Reports poll reveals John McCain to be pretty vulnerable to a potential primary challenge: … This seems like pretty much terrible news for the world. The most likely path between Point A and Senate passage of a reasonable climate bill … 70 days ago Myglesias The EU's New Team - It's not quite a done deal yet ... - — It's not quite a done deal yet, but it increasingly looks like the new European Union leadership team will be Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy as EU President with foreign policy run by Catherine Ashton, Baroness of Upholland and current EU Trade Commissioner. 71 days ago Myglesias Send Troops to Where in Afghanistan? - — Afghanistan is a big country. So in addition to the question of how many resources should be sent to Afghanistan, there's the question of where they should go. Recently, the tendency has been to throw additional resources at the parts of the country where things are worse. 71 days ago Myglesias Spending Trends in Afghanistan - — Something that I think gets underplayed in coverage of the Afghanistan debate is the extent to which our commitment to Afghanistan has already escalated substantially in the recent past. In his recent report for the Carnegie Endowment … 72 days ago Myglesias Ambivalence is a Bad Organizing Tactic - — A good Jeffrey Toobin article about the Stupak Amendment ends with the observation that a lot of recent trends in abortion-related messaging have arguably left the pro-choice side disarmed to fight these skirmishes: 72 days ago Myglesias Al-Qaeda in Mali? - An interesting BBC report looks ... - — An interesting BBC report looks at the possible influx of al-Qaeda affiliates into Mali, the landlocked West African country that's perennially found on lists of the poorest countries in the world. Which reminds me of something I wrote recently in The National: 72 days ago Myglesias State Budget Deficits - — I'm not really sure how the view that ARRA is somehow causing a malign delay in necessary and beneficial structural adjustments can really survive contact with this analysis of federal aid to state budgets from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. 73 days ago Myglesias Bernanke: No Jobs for You - The good news about this Ben ... - — The good news about this Ben Bernanke speech to the Economic Club of New York is that he shows no sign of wanting to join David Ignatius in tightening monetary policy. The bad news is that he sounds awfully blasé about the prospect of a prolonged period of double digit unemployment: 73 days ago Myglesias Putting Health Reform Fiscal Issues in Perspective - — John Breaux and Bill Frist have an op-ed in Politico whose exoteric message is that congress should use the 2003 Medicare bill as a model for bipartisan health reform. The esoteric message is a reminder that the easiest … 73 days ago Myglesias Anne-Marie Slaughter on Increasing USAID Capacity - — Anne-Marie Slaughter, on leave from Princeton to serve as Director of Policy Planning at the State Department where she's playing a key role in the new Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review process, was at CAP today to talk about putting …

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