Source: NYT (10-24-09) (Thomas Friedman is foreign-affairs columnist at the New York Times.) Baghdad, Aug. 25, 2012 — President Obama flew into Baghdad today on his end-of-term tour to highlight successes in U.S. foreign policy. At a time when the Arab-Israel negotiations remain mired in deadlock and ...

Source: WaPo (10-25-09) (David Ignatius is columnist and associate editor at the Washington Post) Talking with a Pakistani intelligence officer here last week about the army's invasion of South Waziristan, a visitor noted that troops have been marching down these same rough roads, toward the same tribal ...

Source: The Cato Institute/OpEdNews.com (10-22-09) (Nat Hentoff is one of the foremost authorities on the First Amendment. Hentoff was a columnist and staff writer with The Village Voice for 51 years, from 1957 until 2008.) While battling the FBI's expanded surveillance guidelines, Sen. Russ Feingold, ...

Source: OpEdNews.com (10-24-09) (Jamison Foser: Executive Vice President at Media Matters for America, a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.) ...

Source: NYT (10-23-09) (Michael Kimmelman is an author and the chief art critic and a columnist for the New York Times. BERLIN — As thousands lined up to catch a glimpse of Nefertiti at the newly reopened Neues Museum here, another skirmish erupted in the culture wars. Egypt’s chief archaeologist, Zahi ...

Source: The Root (10-20-09) (Dayo Olopade is Washington reporter for The Root.) Cornel West, distinguished professor in the Princeton Center for African American Studies, and author of bestsellers such as Race Matters (Vintage, 1994) Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism (Penguin, ...

Source: The Root (10-20-09) (Dayo Olopade is Washington reporter for The Root.) Cornel West, distinguished professor in the Princeton Center for African American Studies, and author of best sellers such as Race Matters (Vintage, 1994) Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism (Penguin, ...

Source: WSJ (10-24-09) (Gerald F. Seib is the executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal) The comparisons roll off tongues easily in Washington these days: Vietnam and Afghanistan, both home to far-away, maddeningly intractable struggles. The former became a quagmire that devoured a presidency; ...

Source: The Free Press (10-24-09) (Free Press Senior Editor and "Superpower of Peace" columnist Harvey Wasserman is also senior advisor to Greenpeace USA and the Nuclear Information & Resource Service.) Some military coups are still done the old-fashioned way. Tanks surround the capital, generals ...

Source: The New Nixon (10-23-09) (Robert Nedelkoff, a resident of Silver Spring, MD, received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Louisville and his Juris Doctor degree from Monterey College of Law in 1996. From 1997 until March 2009, he worked on behalf of the Richard Nixon Foundation at the ...