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October 12, 2018

United States
Happy 243rd Birthday to the U.S. Navy!

The U.S. Navy turns 243 years-old tomorrow. On October 13, 1775, the Continental Congress commissioned two ships, each with eighty sailors, “for intercepting such transports as may be laden with warl…

Navy Birthday 2018

July 15, 2011

Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Friday File: Debt, Default, and Denial

Republican Congressional leaders talk to reporters at the White House in January, 2009. (Kevin Lamarque/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. Speaker of the House John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader…

Republican Congressional leaders talk to reporters at the White House in Washington. (Kevin Lamarque/courtesy Reuters)

May 11, 2006

Intelligence
Saddam's Delusions: The View from the Inside

The key authors of the Pentagon’s secret study of Saddam Hussein’s regime, based on captured Iraqi documents and prisoner interviews, will discuss the Foreign Affairs article, “Saddam’s Delusions: Th…

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January 5, 2011

Congresses and Parliaments
Debts, Deficits, and Debate

Copies of the federal budget. (Kevin Lamarque/courtesy Reuters) CFR.org just posted a “First Take” I did for them on the start of the 112th Congress. The piece argues that deficits and the debt wil…

Copies of the federal budget.