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Should we be getting so worked up about Romney's Libya stumble?
BuzzFeed has called it the "moment where Barack Obama won the debate." MSNBC 's Rachel Maddow dubbed it a "political disaster" for Mitt Romney. National Review 's Jim Geraghty described it as "one of the most egregious...
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Wed, Oct 17 2012 11:54 AM
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Morning Brief: Report shows Iran's oil industry struggling under sanctions
Report shows Iran's oil industry struggling under sanctions Top news: New data released by the International Energy Agency (IEA) suggest that the U.S. and EU sanctions against Iran have substantially impacted the country's oil industry, on which...
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Wed, Oct 17 2012 6:09 AM
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Barack Obama's awkward debate references to Osama bin Laden
Anyone who watched the Democratic convention knows that the Obama campaign is championing the killing of Osama bin Laden as one of the administration's signature achievements -- a strategy best summed up by Vice President Joe Biden's reminder...
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Tue, Oct 16 2012 10:43 PM
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Is Mitt Romney's energy plan really all that different than Bush's?
In one of the most interesting exchanges of Tuesday night's presidential debate , a town hall participant asked Mitt Romney what distinguished him from George W. Bush. The GOP candidate returned to his five-point plan for the economy, noting that...
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Tue, Oct 16 2012 9:29 PM
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The Libya exchange
For my money, the most dramatic moment of Tuesday night's presidential debate came when one of the "undecided voters" brought up the issue of Libya, which ought to have been a tough moment for the president. Here's the video , and here's...
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Tue, Oct 16 2012 8:18 PM
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What's the foreign policy of independent voters?
A growing body of research may suggest that there are very few truly undecided voters still out there , and that their role in deciding elections is exaggerated . But the Gallup polling firm apparently believes it's tracked down 80 politically uncommitted...
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Tue, Oct 16 2012 3:35 PM
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The '13 Days' began today -- what has the world learned 50 years later?
Fifty years ago today, President John F. Kennedy learned that the Soviet Union had deployed nuclear missiles to Cuba, thereby beginning the most dangerous nuclear standoff the world has ever known. Popularly known as the "13 days in October,"...
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Tue, Oct 16 2012 2:23 PM
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8 crazy things Americans believe about foreign policy
This evening's town hall-style debate, we're told, will be different. An intimate setting . Direct interaction with the common voter . The potential for curve-ball questions . While audiences might not relate to the presidential candidates or...
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Tue, Oct 16 2012 12:50 PM
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Which countries are freaking out most about Romney's surge?
With the U.S. presidential election now closer than ever , the press is brimming with speculation about whether Barack Obama, after turning in a lackluster performance in the first debate, can reverse Mitt Romney's momentum during his second outing...
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Tue, Oct 16 2012 9:08 AM
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If FP nerds were 'the public': 15 questions for a more interesting debate
Tonight's presidential debate will be conducted in Town Hall format. Every election, we're promised that this will make the event more " unpredictable ," but in reality, it means we're likely to get pre-screened questions along the...
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Tue, Oct 16 2012 8:37 AM
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Morning Brief: Peace envoy appeals to Iran for Syria cease-fire
Peace envoy appeals to Iran for Syria cease-fire Top news: Lakhdar Brahimi, the new U.N. and Arab League peace envoy, appealed to top Iranian officials for assistance on Monday to broker a cease-fire in Syria in advance of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha...
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Tue, Oct 16 2012 5:54 AM
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Clinton jumps on the Benghazi grenade
CNN's Elise Labott, traveling with Hillary Clinton in Peru, got the secretary of state to make news by stating the obvious: that she is ultimately responsible for the safety of U.S. diplomats. There's a bit of editorial slight of hand going on...
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Mon, Oct 15 2012 7:50 PM
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Note to Candy Crowley: Raise foreign policy at your own risk
Here's the latest testament to the time warp that is today's political news cycle: the Obama and Romney campaigns are reportedly complaining about Candy Crowley's aggressive moderating style -- a day before she moderates the second presidential...
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Mon, Oct 15 2012 10:25 AM
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Could Panama adopt the euro?
This is apparently the week for counter-conventional wisdom thinking on Europe. This time it's Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli, during a press conference with Angela Merkel: "In Panama the currency in free circulation is the American...
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Mon, Oct 15 2012 9:20 AM
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Why did this year's Nobel prize-winning economist write about dwarf-tossing and horse meat?
Alex Tabarrok has a good layman's explanation of the work of Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley, this year's winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics. (Yes, yes, the Sveriges Riksbank etc. etc. ) Their work on matching algorithms has been used to more...
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Mon, Oct 15 2012 8:15 AM
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