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A Middle East peace plan from King Abdullah has been floating out there in the ether for years now. It’s time to bring it out of the air.
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America has gone from being the world’s superpower, with guns and butter for all, to being the frugal superpower. Get used to it.
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With the Israelis, the Palestinians and the Iraqis, President Obama makes an ambitious reach to change the Middle East.
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Public education needs rescuing. The superheroes are already showing the way.
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The Islamic world needs its own Nelson Mandelas to step forward.
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The economies of the United States and Europe need structural changes to return to sustained growth.
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The documentary “Precious Life” is instructive for those who want to criticize Israel.
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A concert of Broadway show tunes sung by a diverse cast brings to mind reasons why it is O.K. to build a mosque near the World Trade Center site.
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The case of the Great Game of Central Asia is a complicated mix of duplicitous players and failed strategies.
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The Gulf Coast doesn’t look so bad on the surface. But it’s the unknowns that nobody is talking about.
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Congress’s failure to pass an energy/climate bill is bad news for all of us.
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The stakes are high for getting an energy bill passed this year. What will it take for a compromise?
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When CNN fired its senior editor of Middle East affairs, we lost the voice of someone who knows the nuances of the region.
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The good news is that someone still wants to spy on us. The bad news is that it’s the Russians.
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Checked the Al-Quds stock index lately? What about the broader changes initiated in the West Bank under the leadership of Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister?
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The time is right for Israel to take the diplomatic initiative.
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Regardless of whether General McChrystal stays or goes, unanswered questions on Afghanistan will remain.
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An inner struggle is going on as Turkey tries to figure out its new identity.
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Visiting Turkey and finding that the nation has pulled away from its balance point between the East and the West.
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This is a window of opportunity to insulate ourselves against the bad things we cannot control and get serious about fixing the problems that we can.
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In this job market, it’s not a good idea to ask new graduates what they’re doing next. A willingness from Washington to encourage entrepreneurs would help.
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The effort to build the institutional foundations of a Palestinian state from the ground up is actually making progress.
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Israel and Turkey have gotten out of balance lately, and it is America’s job to help get both of our friends back to the center.
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President Obama’s next task? Shaping the public reaction to the gulf spill so that we can use it to generate the will to break our addiction to oil.
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It’s shameful for Brazil and Turkey, nascent democracies, to embrace the Iranian president, who crushes democracy.
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We’re driving bumper to bumper with every other major economy today, so misbehavior or mistakes anywhere can cause a global pileup.
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President Obama's handling of the gulf oil spill has been disappointing. I say that not because I endorse the dishonest conservative critique that the gulf oil spill is somehow Obama's Katrina and that he is displaying the same kind of incompetence that George W. Bush did after that hurricane. To the contrary, Obama's team has done a good job coordinating the cleanup so far. The president has been on top of it from the start.
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An environmental 9/11 is unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico. Will President Obama have the courage to ask the country to get behind a new strategy on energy?
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In an interconnected world, pain spreads. Lost in Athens, felt in Berlin. Lost on Wall Street, felt in Iceland.
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Athens For a man whose country's wobbly finances have kept the world on edge for months, the Greek prime minister, George Papandreou, evinces an Obama-Zen-like calm. He is just back from meeting fellow European Union leaders, who decided to try to stave off a Greek meltdown and an E.U. crackup with a show of overwhelming force -- committing nearly $1 trillion to support the economy of any ailing member state. But over a lunch of Greek salad and grilled fish, Papandreou makes clear that he knows...
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The Greek prime minister exudes Obama-like calm and knows change is in store. Is the big bailout the start of a revolution in Athens?
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Baby boomers must accept deep cuts today so their kids can have jobs and not be saddled with debts tomorrow.
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After the oil spill in the gulf, an energy/climate/jobs bill is needed more than ever. America has to stop messing around with the environment’s future.
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Mexico may not be Afghanistan, but what’s happening in Mexico right now has become much more critical to U.S. foreign policy and merits more attention.
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While our lawmakers in Washington are stalling on a bipartisan climate/energy/jobs bill, Beijing is celebrating.
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One way to put all the patriotic energy from the Tea Party Movement to good use would be to go green.
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The president got health care reform passed, and it may turn out to be his single most important foreign policy achievement.
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The potential for something big from a little start-up in St. Louis.
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The world would be a better place if President Obama continues to promote a more idealist approach in Iraq and Afghanistan, but it will require constant vigilance.
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It takes more than just saying no to thrive in the 21st century.
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If we want to bring down unemployment in a sustainable way, we need to create a big bushel of new companies. And fast!
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The Obama administration is violating at least three cardinal rules of Middle East diplomacy when it comes to dealing with Afghanistan and President Hamid Karzai.
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This latest Israeli-American flap over settlements reflects a tectonic shift that has taken place beneath the surface of relations between the two countries.
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We got health care reform. Now we need political innovation that will empower independents and centrists, which describes a lot of the country.
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Seeing the 40 finalists in the 2010 Intel science contest is a reminder of how great our nation can be with a constant flow of legal immigrants.
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Israel, America and the moderate Arabs need their own strategy in order for a Palestinian plan for a two-state solution to work.
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The fracas over Israel’s announcement of plans for new housing in East Jerusalem is a distraction from a potentially history-making moment.
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I am a big Joe Biden fan. The vice president is an indefatigable defender of U.S. interests abroad. So it pains me to say that on his recent trip to Israel, when Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu's government rubbed his nose in some new housing plans for contested East Jerusalem, the vice president missed a chance to send a powerful public signal: He should have snapped his notebook shut, gotten right back on Air Force Two, flown home and left the following scribbled note behind: ''Message from Ame...
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The elections were a good step forward, but now Iraq must prove that it wants a more democratic future.
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Two innovators have defied the recession to shepherd clean-tech start-ups with the potential to be disruptive game changers.
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A talk with the chief of Intel suggests that the U.S. needs to focus more on competitiveness in the global marketplace.
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Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is courageous in his stance on the country’s energy policy.
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Will Iraq’s new politics triumph over its cultural divides, or will its cultural divides sink its fledgling democracy?
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From the very beginning of the U.S. intervention in Iraq and the effort to build some kind of democracy there, a simple but gnawing question has lurked in the background: Was Iraq the way Iraq was (a dictatorship) because Saddam was the way Saddam was, or was Saddam the way Saddam was because Iraq was the way Iraq was -- a collection of warring sects incapable of self-rule and only governable with an iron fist? Alas, some seven years after the U.S. toppled Saddam's government, a few weeks befor...
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President Obama’s calling is to lead nation-building. He clearly understands this but he has yet to give full voice to it.
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Americans’ confusion about climate change makes the U.S. less inclined to move toward clean-tech and more certain to remain addicted to oil.
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The Middle East today is the product of trends dating back to 1979, and reformers need to counter those trends and deconstruct the prevailing narrative of Islamists.
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By rebuilding Yemen’s educational system, the West could prevent the country from becoming an Al Qaeda breeding ground.
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Sana is not Kabul, and Yemen is not Afghanistan not yet. Yemenis have the resources to save themselves, but they need to be mobilized by better governance.
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The world needs 2010 to be a quiet year, but that will require our global problems to be defused with win-win compromises rather than win-lose confrontations.
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The two parties must work together to remove the pall of uncertainty the international community is feeling about our country’s political stability.
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Are we home alone? If our elites do not behave with a greater sense of the common good, we could find our economy doing a double dip with a back flip.
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We need to start an Innovation Movement to create good jobs by spawning more Steve Jobs entrepreneurs who will invent new products and services.
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If China forces out Google and suppresses the nation’s flow of knowledge, then it will be time to short the Chinese Communist Party.
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To a degree, we need to both compete with China and confront Al Qaeda but which will define us?
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Two notes of caution for anyone who is thinking about betting on China’s boom going bust.
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At the end of the first decade, the most important thing to happen was not the Great Recession, but China’s Green Leap Forward.
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Any measure taken to protect us from terrorism won’t be sufficient unless the societies from whence these suicide bombers emerge also erect political, religious and moral restraints.
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The climate summit may not have solved our problems, but we can’t ignore the issues or how individual countries, like Denmark, have effectively addressed them.
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A competitive Earth Race led by America can be a more self-sustaining way to reduce carbon emissions than a festival of nonbinding commitments at a U.N. conference.
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A troop surge won’t work in Afghanistan unless there is a parallel surge against those who promote jihadism online.
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The Great Recession has forced companies to get leaner and more efficient, but without credit these companies can’t grow.
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If we prepare for climate change by building a clean-power economy, but climate change turns out to be a hoax, what would be the result? We would be stronger, more innovative and more energy independent.
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In the end the United States’ strategy in Afghanistan is not about how many troops we send or deadlines we set. It is all about our Afghan partners.
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Nation-building in Afghanistan is just too expensive, when balanced against our needs for nation-building at home right now.
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Why a cocktail of half-truths, propaganda and outright lies about America have taken hold in the Arab-Muslim world since 9/11.
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A great power that can only produce suboptimal responses to its biggest challenges will, in time, fade from being a great power.
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Clean energy opponents believe global warming doesn’t exist because that is the only way their arguments make sense.
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''One million dollars?''
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Without a new system for economic development in the timber-rich tropics, the only Amazon your grandchildren will ever know ends in dot-com and sells books.
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Until the Palestinians and Israelis are serious about the peace process, the United States should get out of the picture.
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America has been able to fight two wars with few allies because we’ve hired the help.
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President Obama does not have a communication problem, but a “narrative” problem. Without one, his message is lost.
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The U.S. does not have the Afghan partners, the allies, the domestic support or the financial resources to justify a nation-building effort in Afghanistan.
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Let’s figure out Afghanistan. But Iraq must remain a priority. Transform Iraq and it will impact the whole Arab-Muslim world.
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Those who create services, opportunities and ways to recruit work can compete on the world market. That is the key to understanding our education challenge today.
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The day in 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell was one of the greatest manifestations of people power ever seen and offers important lessons to the Obama team.
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Before we send more troops to Afghanistan, the Obama administration needs to focus on what kind of Afghan government we have as our partner.
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