President Obama announced at the UN on September 22nd, generally to plaudits from the international development community, an enhanced role for American development assistance.  These plaudits are well deserved.  President Obama stated, both in his UN remarks and in a simultaneously issued Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development, that international development would be elevated in [...]

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BRUSSELS — Last Thursday, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee finally approved a resolution to ratify the New START treaty. But chances of its being debated in the full Senate before the U.S. mid-term elections on November 2 are looking slim, further delaying the treaty’s final ratification. These rather gloomy prospects stand in sharp contrast [...]

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“The President obviously is a – is Christian. He prays every day. He communicates with his religious advisor every single day.” These words came from an Obama White House spokesman on August 19, at the height of the controversy over building a “mosque” near the site of the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York City [...]

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