The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention? The person whose economic and military policies shape the environment the next president will deal with? As best I can tell, in the tens of thousands of words making up the combined remarks of John McCain, Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, and Lindsay Graham, the Name That Must Not Be Uttered appeared exactly once.
James FallowsOur military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.
James FallowsEnvironmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.
James FallowsWe're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work
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