Now that President Obama has authorized Gen. David Petraeus to continue to execute the current strategy in Afghanistan, the question is: Can the U.S. strategy succeed? The administration’s review of its policy identified areas of progress but noted that “the challenge remains to make our gains du…

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Why we must stick with Obama’s Afghan strategy

The political class took a moment on Tuesday to mourn Elizabeth Edwards, who died from cancer at the age of 61. “Through all that she endured, Elizabeth revealed a kind of fortitude and grace that will long remain a source of inspiration,” the Obamas…

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Edwards Funeral Planned for Weekend

Extending the tax cuts allows for a much-needed discussion.

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The benefits of Obama’s deal on the Bush tax cuts

Obama’s tax cut deal largely perpetuates the status quo.

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The paucity of hope – and other victims of Obama’s tax-cut deal

Prominent progressive voices should push a new New Deal.

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Save Obama’s presidency by challenging him on the left

Obama’s decision to freeze federal workers’ pay is one curious move.

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Obama’s dangerous debt compromises

If verification is increasingly important, is Russia decreasingly trustworthy?

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Obama’s time-warp focus on the New START treaty

An ideological movement at its most cynical.

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Liberals resort to conspiracy theories to explain Obama’s problems

His foreign policy would have made sense in 1983.

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Obama’s foreign policy needs an update

Obama ought to forget the Republicans and write a narrative of his own.

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Obama’s opportunity to be the decider

What Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson have given America is the equivalent of a cold shower after a night of heavy drinking. It’s sober-up time.

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Sober suggestions from Obama’s debt commission

The talking bra, dogs that like surfing and the Obamas do a bit of dancing. It’s the week’s weird and wonderful video stories in Newsbeat’s Odd Box with Dominic Byrne.

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Surfing dogs – it’s Odd Box

Jailed Russian dissident needs U.S. support, yet Obama remains silent.

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Obama’s silence on a jailed Russian dissident

The president must decide whether Iran is negotiating to kill time or to actually reach a deal.

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Obama’s game of nuclear chicken with Iran

He tried governing on the model preferred by congressional Democrats and the result was the loss of Democratic seats and his own reputation.

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Election results and President Obama’s mistakes