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Rosa Brooks, a Pentagon official during the first Obama term and now at Georgetown University, told the hearing: “I've frankly never seen such an accomplished, talented group of people give such muddled and incoherent answers.” Copyright The Financial ...

Sir, In her lengthy put-down of Margaret Thatcher's legacy as regards Europe, Anne-Marie Slaughter repeatedly refers to “Europe” as if it were something resembling a nation state that Mrs Thatcher rejected (“Thatcher's legacy is Britain's not-so ...

Tamar Jacoby, head of ImmigrationWorks, which represents small business interests, said that the new programme would still not meet labour market demand, pointing out that more than 350,000 illegal immigrants were arriving in the US annually before the ...

“He's for settlements just not so aggressively, he's for threatening Iran but not aggressively, he's for talking to the Palestinians but not too much,” says Daniel Levy, former Israeli official now director of the Middle East programme at the European ...

Steve Coll’s Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power has won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.

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For instance, the Bowles-Simpson commission, which Mr Obama established, has proposed limiting tax preference benefits for upper-income households. Also, Martin Feldstein of Harvard University and Maya MacGuineas of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget ...

As Georgetown University legal scholar Rosa Brooks put it recently: “That amounts, in practice, to a claim that the executive branch has the unreviewable power to kill anyone, anywhere, at any time, based on secret criteria and secret information ...