The latest Snowden leak shows that the NSA, via it's partner in Australia, has violated attorney-client privilege of a U.S. law firm. Is the "Five Eyes" alliance being used to circumvent constitutional protections against U.S. surveillance agains...
As I blogged the other day, Venezuela’s populist dynamo Hugo Chávez has left the country yet again for more cancer treatments in Cuba, possibly for the last time. In his absence: intricate clan wars among the ruling party, an aspiring oppo...
As I blogged the other day, Venezuela’s populist dynamo Hugo Chávez has left the country yet again for more cancer treatments in Cuba, possibly for the last time. In his absence: intricate clan wars among the ruling party, an aspiring oppo...
My sincere congratulations to my friend, Bill Browder, on this historic achievement to memorialize the life of Sergei Magnitsky and other victims of injustice in Russia. Also my congratulations to the city of Washington DC, who now get to enjoy th...
On Fareed Zakaria’s blog on CNN, there is an interesting short post by political scientists Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith of NYU, taking an excerpt from their new book. The argument is very basic, but suggests an interesting re...
On Fareed Zakaria’s blog on CNN, there is an interesting short post by political scientists Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith of NYU, taking an excerpt from their new book. The argument is very basic, but suggests an interesting re...
In case you haven’t been following the news, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has cancer. After several surgeries and chemotherapy treatments in Cuba, Chavez has returned to a very tense political situation (even by Venezuelan standards), a...
In case you haven’t been following the news, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has cancer. After several surgeries and chemotherapy treatments in Cuba, Chavez has returned to a very tense political situation (even by Venezuelan standards), a...
We found these comments from Martin Indyk at Brookings Institution very interesting regarding the effectiveness and coherence of U.S. foreign policy amid an especially bitter and hard fought campaign season. If the parties are willing to throw th...
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