Campaign '08: McCain's Foreign Policy Advisers | Newsweek The Council on Foreign Relations

Dollars and Sense
Anna Quindlen 3/21/2009 12:00:00 AM
Come on, be honest: you never really understood most of this stuff. Not just the more complex terms, like credit swaps or derivatives, but the basic material. Compound interest. Balloon payments. You pretended. We all did. You would read about a hedge fund, and nod. You had no idea what a hedge fund did.
POLITICS
Promises, Promises
Joseph Epstein 2/14/2009 12:00:00 AM
On Tuesday, this past Nov. 4, I voted for John McCain for President of The United States. On Wednesday morning, I woke feeling glad that he lost. Had McCain won, a spirit of gloom would have spread over the land, a deadening feeling of "Oh, God, business as usual," part of that business being that a man tied to failed economic policies was once again at the helm and a nonwhite candidate for president still hadn't a chance. But Barack Obama was our new president. Great day in the morning; a new age in American politics is upon us.
AMERICA AND ITS IMAGE
Why the Election Mattered
Gideon Rose 12/31/2008 12:00:00 AM
The 2008 Presidential election will have a major impact on U.S. foreign policy—but not for the reasons many think.
PERSPECTIVES
The Year in Quotes—And Cartoons
12/20/2008 12:00:00 AM
"I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities."—Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, taking a jab at Barack Obama's résumé at the Republican National Convention
FACTCHECK.ORG
Our Disinformed Electorate
12/13/2008 12:00:00 AM
More than half of U.S. adults (52 percent) said the claim that Sen. Barack Obama's tax plan would raise taxes on most small businesses is truthful, when in fact only a small percentage would see any increase.
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP FORUM
The Realist
Christopher Flavelle 4/30/2008 12:00:00 AM
When John McCain outlined his foreign policy platform in a speech in Los Angeles on March 26, part of the credit went to Robert Kagan, an adviser to McCain's campaign and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In his new book, "The Return of History and the End of Dreams," Kagan argues that the apparent triumph of liberal democracy in the 1990s was fleeting and that an era of renewed great power competition is upon us.