Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, called a historic deal that will limit Iran’s ability to manufacture nuclear weapons “mistaken.” Less coverage has gone to President Shimon Peres’s more measured remarks: “I would like to say to the Iranian people, we are not your enemies. There is a possibility to solve this diplomatically.”
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Bibi’s Agreement Anxiety Disorder
Netanyahu’s public fury says more about him than about the Iran deal.
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Moderating Influences
Without taking Iranian leaders who stand on their country’s middle ground seriously, the West is doomed to stalemate on nuclear talks.
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CBS Retracts Benghazi Report
Last night, Lara Logan, a 60 Minutes correspondent, apologized for a story on last year’s terrorist attacks in Libya. The retraction followed a report from The Washington Post that a 60 Minutes source, Dylan Davies, had contradicted his previous account to the FBI.
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Super Sad Spy Story
How the NSA’s surveillance state could define Obama’s presidency
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Mission Affordabled: Why Obama’s Website Problems Aren’t “His Iraq”
Democrats will let the president’s signature legislation die a painful death if Healthcare.gov isn’t fixed soon. Which is exactly why Obama is racing to fix this mess like Bush never did with his signature war.
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Bomb Me, Big Sheldon
Neocon mega-donor Adelson decides that nuclear fighting is definitely allowed in the donor room.
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Eric Schlosser, Bard of Folly
What the Command and Control author is teaching Americans about our reliance on technology.
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Dick Cheney Still Thinks He Was a Character on “24”
The former vice president reminds us of what a hard time Bush administration officials had distinguishing between fantasy and reality.
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Are Hawks in Congress Trying to Scuttle Iran Talks?
Negotations over the county’s nuclear program have been deemed fruitful by both sides, so why are GOP hardliners making trouble just when things seem to be going well?