Lee Hamilton
Robert Gates Is Right About Iraq
Obama Ramps Up Support For Nuclear
Guess Obama wasn't kidding when he gave all those shout-outs to nuclear power in his State of the Union address on Wednesday. According to Bloomberg, Obama's 2011 budget will request $54 billion in loan guarantees for new nuclear reactors—triple the previous amount. Here's the industry's case for expanded loan guarantees: READ MORE >>
The Reinvention of Robert Gates
“We Can’t Just Do Nothing”
Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror By Mahmood Mamdani (Pantheon, 398 pp., $26.95) The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All By Gareth Evans (Brookings, 349 pp., $24.95) I. READ MORE >>
Lee Hamilton Questions Afghanistan Plan
As David Ignatius noted earlier this year, the views of former Congressman Lee Hamilton hold considerable sway within the Obama national security team. READ MORE >>
Interpreting The Lee Hamilton Endorsement
On the one hand, it's not so surprising that Lee Hamilton would endorse Barack Obama. Obama's foreign policy team consists of several former Hamilton staffers, and Obama himself seems to embody Hamilton's foreign policy sensibility. (See this recent piece for more on that.) READ MORE >>
Six Degrees Of Lee Hamilton
Former 9/11 Commission chair Lee Hamilton is endorsing Obama today. It's a big pickup for the candidate--not merely because Hamilton's longtime congressional seat is in Indiana, which votes May 6th--but one that should not surprise loyal TNR readers. Noam may have foreseen the announcement in his wonderful explainer on Obama's "people" from last month. READ MORE >>
The Audacity of Data
What's New In The Baker-hamilton Report?
by Richard Stern READ MORE >>
