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New Yorker writer Steve Coll summarizes: "This could not be a more complicated war. If you think about it, the United States is essentially waging a war ...

[Paul Testa] and Joanne Kenen write the New Health Dialogue Blog for the New America Foundation, a think tank. "I think part of it, with the blogs, is that there is a ... Original Article

MAYA MACGUINEAS, PRESIDENT, COMMITTEE FOR A RESPONSIBLE FEDERAL BUDGET: There are not going to be that many vehicles which will actually bring taxes down or ...

To shed light on this tenuous coexistence and the violence it often ignites, we recommend this Atlantic cover story by Eliza Griswold, who traveled to the ...

New America Foundation CEO Steve Coll was key source for the recent Frontline special, "The War Briefing." The program, which first aired on PBS Oct. 28, focuses on the war in Afghanistan, and asks: "What are the next president's options."

A transcript of Coll's interview is available, while the full program can be viewed on the Frontline web site.  

Selected excerpts from Coll's analysis are included below:

Can you describe Afghanistan in terms… more

Maya MacGuineas, President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: If we move forward and borrow hundreds of billions of dollars to kind of stimulate the company now, with no (INAUDIBLE) how to offset this cost, the vulnerability or the cost to the economy of borrowing so much could ultimately outweigh the benefits of the stimulus. We have to do this right. LINK to transcript

Tavis Smiley: Let me start by asking you, Gregory, whether or not, that said, the format tonight made a difference in the performance of either man? A conversation heretofore about the format playing best to John McCain. Let's talk about the format first.

Gregory Rodriguez: You know what? I expected John McCain to do much better than he did. He usually has - he's better equipped, usually, to feel the audience's pain, if you will. He's better at connecting, he's better at emoting than… more

Frontline | Bush's War: Part 2

From the horror of 9/11 to the invasion of Iraq; the truth about WMD to the rise of an insurgency; the scandal of Abu Ghraib to the strategy of the surge -- for seven years, Frontline has revealed the defining stories of the war on terror in meticulous detail, and the political dramas that played out at the highest levels of power and influence. Now, on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, the… more