Through 11 presidential elections, beginning with the Democrats’ nomination of George McGovern in 1972, Republicans have enjoyed a presumption of superiority regarding national security. This year, however, events and their rhetoric are dissipating their advantage. Read full article > >

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Republicans need more than rhetoric on defense

Sixty years ago today King George VI died and his 25-year-old daughter Princess Elizabeth became Queen.

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VIDEO: The day Elizabeth became Queen

Prince George’s County homicide detectives charged an Oxon Hill man Tuesday in the slaying of Alexandria activist Lenny Harris — taking an important step, they hope, toward unraveling the mystery that began when Harris suddenly vanished in September only to turn up dead at the bottom of a well in Fort Washington last week. Read full article > >

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Man charged in Va. activist Lenny Harris’s death

In 1968 I began my life in diplomacy as an aide to Averell Harriman and Cyrus Vance, who were heading peace talks with the North Vietnamese in Paris. Thirty-four years later, I ended that career as the George W. Bush administration’s first special envoy to Afghanistan, appointed weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Like Richard Holbrooke , my contemporary on the Paris delegation and my eventual successor as envoy to Afghanistan, I have been struck by parallels between the two wars and the two peace processes, the first of which ultimately ended in failure and the second of which is only now taking shape, the fruit of much effort by Holbrooke and his successor, Ambassador Marc Grossman . Read full article > >

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Negotiating peace in Afghanistan without repeating Vietnam

Steven Spielberg’s War Horse and George Clooney’s The Ides of March are among a number of big films not to make the cut for this year’s Writers Guild awards.

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War Horse gelded by Writers Guild

Don't get too riled up over tonight's results. Since 1976, only three people who won the Iowa caucuses ended up winning the nomination: Gerald Ford, Bob Dole, and George W. Bush.

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Notes on Iowa Caucuses Past

Kauto Star is among eight confirmations, along with stablemate Master Minded and Long Run, as he bids to win a record fifth King George VI Chase on Boxing Day.

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Kauto Star ready for King George

Chancellor George Osborne says the economic situation in the UK will get “very much worse” if the eurozone “goes belly up”.

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Eurozone threatens UK – Osborne

Like scientists set on reviving extinct species, today’s craft brewers are possessed by a certain madness. They are re-creating steinbiers scalded with hot stones and ancient Scottish ales brewed with herbs. They are making modern interpretations of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin’s personal recipes. Researchers have even analyzed a 19th-century beer from a Baltic Sea shipwreck so that it, too, may be brewed once again. Read full article > >

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Historic brews being poured once more

Chancellor George Osborne prepares to outline plans to boost the UK’s sluggish economy – against expected gloomy forecasts for growth.

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Osborne to unveil economy update

Singer George Michael cancels the remaining dates of his tour while he is treated in Vienna for “severe” pneumonia, his publicist confirms.

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Sick George Michael shelves tour

Mad Max director George Miller confirms production on the fourth film has moved out of Australia due to heavy rain earlier this year.

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Mad Max ‘foiled by flower garden’

Everyone knows that President Obama has a problem with his political base heading into 2012. Except that he doesn’t. One of the most persistent story lines for the president has been that the liberal left has grown increasingly dissatisfied with his actions (or inaction) on some of its priorities — including single-payer health insurance, the extension of the George W. Bush tax cuts and whether to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Read full article > >

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President Obama’s base of support remains solid heading into 2012

In “The Descendants,” George Clooney plays the scion of an old Hawaii family with many troubles on his hands.

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Movie Review | ‘The Descendants’: ‘Descendants,’ With George Clooney – Review

Chancellor George Osborne claims that the prospect of an independence referendum is damaging the Scottish economy.

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Osborne: Referendum causing harm