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Columnist for Reuters and the Atlantic; two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner; author of Beyond War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East and co-author, with his wife, Kristen Mulvihill, of A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides; former reporter for the Christian Science Monitor
Defending Obama’s Political Legacy Recent polls by ABC News show that 51% of Americans see President Obama more as a failure than a success. Democratic candidates in next month’s crucial Senate elections are not inviting the President in to campaign.
Is Our Fear of al Qaeda More Damaging than al Qaeda Itself? Since September 11, the US has engaged in two wars, killed innocent civilians with unmanned drones and conducted massive, secret surveillance at home and abroad. Three disclosures in the past week show how "sweeping government efforts to stop attacks are backfiring abroad and infringing on basic rights at home."
War Crime Fugitive Ratko Mladic Arrested in Serbia Since 1995, former Bosnian Serb General Rotko Mladic has been on the run after the massacre of at least 7500 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in the city of Srebrenica. This massacre was the worst atrocity in Europe since the end of World War II. Today he was arrested, in northern Serbia, where he’s been living under an assumed name.
Two Perspectives on a Reporter's Kidnapping Two months after his marriage to artist-photographer Kristen Mulvihill, New York Times correspondent David Rohde was abducted by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Since kidnapping isn't an ordeal for the victim alone, his seven months in captivity changed both their lives.
No end in sight More than 800,000 federal employees continue to go without pay in what could soon be the longest government shutdown yet.
One year later, the threat of more mudslides still exists One year ago, torrential rain pelted the hillside community of Montecito, which was scorched a month earlier by the Thomas Fire. It unleashed a flow of mud and boulders the size of cars and killed 23 people. We check in with the community one year later and talk about what’s being done to prevent another debris flow.