Martin Indyk is the vice president and director of foreign policy at The Brookings Institution and author of the recently published Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East (Simon & Schuster 2009).
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Wallace Tries to Explain Lap Comment
Awkward doesn't even begin to describe this exchange Friday morning on Fox and Friends. Chris Wallace attempts to explain his "hope" that Sarah Palin will sit on his lap Sunday, and the conversatio...
The 6 Craziest Carrie Prejean Moments
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Carrie Prejean's meltdown on Larry King Live Wednesday was only the latest in the dethroned beauty queen's public spectacles. WATCH VIDEO of our favorite Miss California USA moments, from her first use of "opposite marriage" to her brief stint as a weathergirl.
Can We Now Please Retire...?
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Wonkette emerita, political junkie, self-hating journalist, and author of Dog Days. She has worked for Time, Mother Jones, Suck, and most recently, Radar. Follow her on Twitter.
A list of campaign relics I never want to see again.
Why Bibi Humiliated Biden
America's Craziest Cities
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U.S. Debunks Autism Myth
Adam Winkler is a constitutional law professor at UCLA.
What Liz Doesn't Get About Lawyers
Charles Fried was Solicitor General of the United States. His book with Gregory Fried, Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror, will be published by W. W. Norton in September.
Gregory Fried is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Suffolk University. His book with Charles Fried, Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror, will be published by W. W. Norton in September.
Haiti Loses Its Lifeboat
Dr. Sheri Fink the award-winning book, War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival (Public Affairs, 2003), about wartime Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. She received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford. She was the recipient of a Kaiser Media Fellowship in Health from the Kaiser Family Foundation and is currently a senior fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
