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| Wash Post Sunday Outlook
In March of 1974, when I was a young Army captain, I was sitting in a conference on civil-military relations at Brown University. Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wis.) was onstage expounding on the lessons from Vietnam about military interventions. He then stopped and looked right at me and the four West Point...
In the prologue to " Rawhide Down ," Washington Post reporter Del Quentin Wilber hypothesizes that the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan , and the president's grace and courage in dealing with it, were the catalysts for his eight mostly successful years in office. The public's impression of...
Columnist on why we can't live with or without the Reagan era
David S. Broder covered every presidential election since 1968 for The Washington Post. He believed fiercely that the voter had the power and the politician had to serve. Winning required governing, with care and rigor. When those values needed reemphasis, Broder, who died Wednesday at 81, turned to...
Like Sinatra, Moammar Gaddafi has always done things his way. When Egypt- and Tunis-style public protests failed to dislodge the Libyan leader, a full-scale rebellion erupted, only to be met with the uncompromising brutality so familiar to longtime Gaddafi observers. For now, Libya appears...
Environmentalist explains why America will have to feed its rival
and say the IRS should send taxpayers a receipt We're a nation of savvy shoppers, and we expect that details about the products we buy will be readily available to us. Want to know where your pants were made? Look at the label. What about the calorie count for a Big Mac? In many McDonald's, it's...
Diplomatic historian on the pros and cons of Egypt's would-be president
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