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By Jason Horowitz 12/03/08 1:10am

Obama-Clinton Policy Team Hits Fast Wall: India

As Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton stood at a Dec. 1 press conference in Chicago to announce her nomination as secretary of state, they promised the country, and the world, a much-needed push toward the restoration of world order.

It would be, Mr. Obama said, “a new beginning—a new dawn of Read More

By Staff 4/28/06 7:37pm

Kenneth Pollack, Iran Expert Who’s Never Been There

I just got a copy of Ken Pollack's latest book on Iran, The Persian Puzzle, and was shocked on flipping to page 429, the Author's Note at the end of the book, to read that Pollack has never been to Iran and doesn't speak Persian, has only dribs and drabs of Arabic. You'd think a Read More