A new book throws out the conventional wisdom about the Bush White House. To give you an example, it quotes one source who calls Bush the “undisputed alpha male.” The book: Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House.
Coffee growers in Uganda and elsewhere find climate change hurting their crops
At what point can we properly judge a president’s legacy? To discuss what that Obama 2.0 could look like, we speak with Michael Tomasky, the American Editor-at-Large for the UK’s Guardian newspaper, and editor of the quarterly journal ‘Democracy.’
Almost as quickly as the story broke that a ring of Russian sleeper agents was operating in the U.S., officials from the two countries seemed to scramble for a face-saving solution. We’re joined by Peter Baker, correspondent for the New York Times.
Is it true that the White House is engaging in dubious political tactics, or is this sort of partronage commonplace in Washington? Peter Baker of our partner, The New York Times, has the latest on this developing story.
