As a Russian state nuclear corporation sought a majority share of Uranium One, a leading Uranium producer with mining rights in the U.S., former President Clinton was invited to Moscow to give a speech to Renaissance Capital.
In a piece which devastates the Clinton campaign’s efforts to dismiss questions about her family’s foundation, the New York Times’ editorial board calls Hillary’s failure to disclose large donations, despite an agreement with White House to do so, an “inexcusable violation of her pledge.”
A Fox News poll released Wednesday afternoon finds that a majority of registered voters feel President Obama has been too soft on Iran in negotiations toward a nuclear agreement.
In 2006, then-Senator Barack Obama wrote a letter to Secretary of State Condi Rice urging her to acknowledge historical facts and use the word “genocide” to describe the massacre of 1.5 million Armenian Christians. As President, Obama has never used the word, despite a written promise to do so.
A spokesman for Iran’s nuclear agency has once again rejected calls to grant IAEA access to military sites, continuing a war of words on the issue that began Sunday.
President Obama will once again avoid using the word “genocide” at a ceremony to designed to memorialize more than a million Armenians murdered by the Ottaman Turks 100 years ago. During his 2008 campaign, then-Senator Obama repeatedly promised he would label the massacre a genocide as president.
When negotiators in Lausanne, Switzerland announced the framework of a nuclear agreement with Iran earlier this month, Vox’s Max Fisher proclaimed it an “astonishingly good” deal. Less than three weeks later, Fisher is now highlighting the case against the deal.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said Thursday he wants to press forward for a final nuclear deal with the P5+1 nations but added that the West needs the deal more than Iran does. “We do not want to speak about not
Former Secretary of State James Baker weighed in on the Iran deal Thursday night. In a piece published by the Wall Street Journal, Baker concludes the deal is weak and badly in need of work.
In a piece published yesterday, Ta-Nehisi Coates argues that police are used as a backstop of force to deal with social problems they are ill-equipped to handle. But in making this case, Coates makes the perfect the enemy of the good, choosing systemic solutions he never even articulates over the practical one most people already agree on: body cameras.
In a report on a proposed law which would make it possible for the state of Colorado to bring murder charges after the death of an unborn baby, Think Progress’s Health Editor manages to misstate the facts of the crime which prompted the bill in the first place.
In a sign of growing tensions, Iran’s Parliament has released a “fact sheet” which calls for substantial revisions to the framework agreement it reached with the P5+1 countries.
Like Bieber, Hillary has had a rough few years. The “smart power” approach to Russia didn’t work out and, even if you only look at the tepid ARB report, she presided over a genuine disaster in Benghazi. So, what’s a celebrity with bad press to do? Well, you take a page from Justin’s playbook.
At the first real stop on her campaign tour of Iowa, Hillary Clinton announced support for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.
Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz has written an op-ed which downplays growing disagreements between the U.S. and Iran over the framework agreement announced nearly two weeks ago.
Thursday Buzzfeed published an interview with Dr. Ben Carson, the retired surgeon and possible GOP candidate for president. The most surprising aspect of the interview wasn’t the content but the byline. The author is one of the reporters who, three months ago, leveled accusations of plagiarism at Carson involving his 2012 book America the Beautiful.
A hand-written page of notes dating to 1994 shows that Hillary Clinton planned to use the same pitch for health reform which would later be dubbed the Lie of the Year after President Obama adopted it to sell Obamacare.
NBC’s new show American Odyssey is a retelling of Homer classic tale and also, according to its creators, an illustration of the dangers of Citizens United to American democracy.
At a celebration of National Nuclear Technology Day, Iran’s president and the director of its nuclear program denied Iran has ever pursued nuclear weapons research. This is another area in which Iran’s understanding of the framework agreement seems to be at odds with explanations published by the U.S.
Iran’s Minister of Defense has rejected the claim that Iranian military would be open to inspections as part of the framework deal agreed to last week, a view seemingly at odds with the fact sheet published by the U.S. State Department.
In the midst of defending himself, Reid admits the claims he made on the Senate floor had nothing to do with any genuine belief Romney never paid taxes. On the contrary, Reid now admits, “Of course he paid taxes.”
The Columbia Journalism Review concludes the core reporting problem was confirmation bias.
Politifact may have outdone themselves with a fact check devoted to whether or not Gov. Scott Walker really bought a sweater at a clothing retail store for one dollar.
About an hour after the announcement that the P5+1 had reached a framework of an agreement for a new nuclear deal with Iran, the Iranian Foreign Minister took issue with how the United States was explaining the proposal.
The City Council of Los Angeles has agreed to settle claims brought by Occupy LA protesters for $2.45 million.
