National Security and the Presidency
Former Obama administration defense officials working on his re-election campaign talked about the president’s national security record and criticized Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s rece…
198 viewsFormer Obama administration defense officials working on his re-election campaign talked about the president’s national security record and criticized Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s rece…
198 viewsThe Defense Department announced that it is ready to stop enforcing its “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on gays in the military. That message goes to President Obama, who will then formally n…
732 viewsGeoff Morrell held his final briefing as Defense Department spokesperson. He joked with the press about his tenure, but also took some substantive questions on troop withdrawal in Afghanista…
295 viewsSenior Pentagon officials and national journalists talked about the relationship between the military and the media. Among the topics they addressed were journalist embedding programs, repor…
274 viewsDouglas Blackmon talked about his book, Slavery by Another Name, which details the age of “neo-slavery” that he asserts took place between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World…
918 viewsBadi Foster, Christopher Edley, and Marlon Marshall talked about the state of education. Then Peggy McIntosh, Alford McMichael, and Maria Echaveste commented on their presentation and the pa…
762 viewsFormer U.S. Senator and Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen and his wife, playwright Janet Langhart Cohen, hosted a conference at the National Press Club on “Race and Reconciliation in Ame…
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