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Is Donald Rumsfeld to blame for the U.S.'s troubles in Iraq, or is there another culprit?

There's a lot that the United States can do when it comes to Pakistan, but none of it can be done quickly. Nor can it be done without facing, as Admiral Mike Mullen did at last, the truth about the Pakistani Army.

While the Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act is intended to make the bankruptcy process easier for medical debtors, the Act could cause more harm to the people it is trying to help.

The account in Bush at War is, for all its virtues, constricted by Washingtonian myopia and limited perspectives.

President George W. Bush's memoir details key decisions made during his presidency.

Donald Rumsfeld'smeeting engagement with Thomas Wilson in Kuwait last week was a reality check for what has proved in practice to be a terrible idea: military "transformation."

Well worth reading, John Lewis Gaddis' biography of George Kennan nonetheless raises the basic question of whether Kennan’s concrete contributions justify the many accolades he has received.