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Band Apart
10/1/2009 12:00:00 AMPresident Obama and his advisers are grappling with questions about Afghanistan far deeper than merely how many troops to send. How do they handle the Taliban, the central government, the countryside versus cities? The larger strategy that the troops, however many of them, are there to implement remains unresolved.
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Slower Than a Melting Ice Cap
9/24/2009 12:00:00 AMThe night that the American Clean Energy and Security Act passed the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Ed Markey, one of the bill's authors, got a phone call from Rahm Emanuel. The significance of the legislative feat achieved by Markey and committee chair Henry Waxman—persuading a relatively conservative committee filled with coal-state representatives to approve a comprehensive climate-change bill—is a fact oft forgotten in the rowdy world of climate politics. But it wasn't lost on a seasoned political operative like Emanuel. "Congratulations," the sharp-tongued White House chieftain told Markey. "I really wasn't sure you had the votes."
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All Politics Was Personal
8/29/2009 12:00:00 AMTeddy was the greatest teacher anyone in politics could have asked for. I may not always have been the best student, but he never stopped dispensing lessons.
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Pickens Plan Still Kickin’
8/5/2009 12:00:00 AMT. Boone Pickens is a bit ornery these days. Not that this isn't his normal disposition. The legendary oilman didn't build a net worth of $3 billion and become one of the most ruthless corporate raiders of the 1980s by being agreeable. But Pickens's recent consternation is understandably a little more intense than usual. A year after he unveiled his $10 billion bid to save America by planting wind turbines up and down the Midwest, thereby helping wean us off some of the $475 billion of foreign oil we consume each year, the Pickens Plan is now stuck in the mud, if not dead on arrival; its obituary already written by most media outlets: "Pickens Plan for Huge Wind Farm Blows Away" read a CBS News headline last month.
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Leader of the Pack
5/18/2009 12:00:00 AMWhen a king and a U.S. senator cruise the Dead Sea shoreline on big bikes, these would-be easy riders need yield to no one. But as King Abdullah of Jordan and Sen. John Kerry of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee roared through the desert landscape last weekend on a break from the World Economic Forum, the question hanging in the air like the bitter haze above the salt sea was all about green lights and red lights on the road to Middle East peace.
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