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The Interpreter - May 15, 2008 - 3:33pm

Dana Milbank has a good column in Wednesday's Washington Post. A day in the campaign of Senator Hillary Clinton, it's a beautifully drawn sketch of the absurdity of modern politics. Take this paragraph: Read more »

Reader riposte: McCain's foreign policy

The Interpreter - May 14, 2008 - 4:25pm

Edward Cohen, a former Lowy Institute intern, replies to Raoul Heinrichs: Read more »

Obama and Israel

The Interpreter - May 13, 2008 - 2:14pm

Sam blogged earlier about Jeffrey Goldberg's interview with Barack Obama on the topic of Israel and the Jews. I think most punters reading the interview transcript would come away with the view that Obama has strong links with the American Jewish community and is rock-solid on Israel's security. But not everyone here is seeing the interview in the same light. Read more »

The battle for John McCain

The Interpreter - May 9, 2008 - 12:11pm

Guest blogger: Raoul Heinrichs, the 2007 Lowy Institute Thawley Scholar, is on a research placement at CSIS. Read more »

Bush's golf gulf

The Interpreter - May 15, 2008 - 12:04pm

President Bush is getting some blogospheric grief for his statement that he chose to give up golf because: Read more »

Obama’s mamas

The Interpreter - May 11, 2008 - 2:57pm

I attended a lunch at Brookings on Friday on the topic of Catholics and US politics. Dr William Galston argued that American Catholics are numerous, strategically located in swing states such as Florida, Iowa, Minnesota and Pennsylvania, and swing voters. ‘As the Catholic vote goes’, he concluded, ‘so goes the election.’ Read more »

Please let it be true

The Interpreter - May 7, 2008 - 5:21pm

Could the 'Bataan death march' that is the Democratic presidential nomination process finally be over? Read more »