‘Which country is more open and transparent?’

Via John McGlynn comes this exchange at the State Department press briefing on Monday: MR. KELLY: Good afternoon. Let me start off by just kind of updating you where we are today in terms of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, which you all know started...

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Liberals Silent on Iraq Atrocities

In New York, you cannot ride a subway without being bombarded with posters about Darfur and now, Tibet. Of course I have sympathy for those killed and displaced in Darfur, though the numbers have been overblown and other specifics of the situation have been...

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Several Tries Too Far, Mr Miliband

I know that if at first you don't succeed, you're supposed to try, try again. But I think that phrase needs an exception: do not keep trying the same thing over and over again, especially after you fail 100 times in as many years. British Foreign Secretary David...

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