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has played a big role in GOP politics and is vocal about his support for Israel. In 2012, he spent millions backing the presidential candidacy of Mitt Romney, not only in a bid to beat President Obama but also to ensure strengthened support for Israel in domestic U.S. politics. And, more recently, New Je

lions backing the presidential candidacy of Mitt Romney, not only in a bid to beat President Obama but a

The next revolution will almost certainly be both more radical and more virulently anti-American than the last. Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He writes a monthly foreign affairs column for The Post. NYT Why Economics Failed Paul Krugman May 1, 2014 -- On Wednesday, I wrapped up the cla

ot surprising given the fact that 6o percent of voters aged 18-29 voted for Obama in 2012. President Barack Obama won 5 million more votes than Gov. Mitt Romney among voters under the age of 3o in the 2012 election. Despite Romney holding a 2 million-vote advantage over the President among voters aged 3o an

Obama in 2012. President Barack Obama won 5 million more votes than Gov. Mitt Romney among voters under the age of 3o in the 2012 election. Despite Romney holding a 2 million-vote advantage over the President among voters aged 3o and older, Obama's significant lead with the youth vote was enough to en

are going to leave the U.S. economy with 2 million fewer jobs and $433 billion less in economic growth by 2019. Another recent think-tank study, by the Brookings Institution, found that austerity had already cost the U.S. economy more than 2 million jobs since the recession. The CAP study suggests those jobs are not com

Washington News Media Analyses: GOP Has Votes To Replace Ginsburg; "Momentum" Favors Lagoa. EFTA00136715 Following Tuesday's announcement by Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), media reports are indicating Republicans seem poised to proceed with replacing the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In its lead story, for

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year, though they have exchanged insults." To the Times, "rarely have relations between a president and a speaker been this toxic." Darrell West of the Brookings Institution says their relations are at an "all-time low." Adds West, "There have been other presidents and speakers who didn't see eye-to-eye, yet they maintai

hould end by December 8." Politico adds Sens. Jim Risch (R-ID), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Pat Toomey (R-PA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Ben Sasse (R-NE), and Lamar Alexander (R-TN) have also "acknowledged the need for a transition." On CNBC's Squawk Box <https://playvideo.bu

), Pat Toomey (R-PA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Ben Sasse (R-NE), and Lamar Alexander (R-

626> (11/23, Dilanian, Bennett, 6.I4M) reports that since leaving the Obama administration, Haines "has been affiliated with Columbia University and the Brookings Institution, and has consulted for various companies, including the national security data contractor Palantir, according to a Brookings biography unearthed by

hat, in a democracy, leaders should resemble the people they represent. Thus the real question in this American election is whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney, not physically but culturally and philosophically, more resembles a majority of the new America that has emerged in recent decades. EFTA00701621

e on the foreign policy failures of the next administration Daniel Byman Question: Is the following a critique of U.S. foreign policy during Mitt Romney's first term or President Obama's second term? EFTA00701624 October 2016 To say that the administration has dropped the ball on foreign policy wo

curity studies program at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and the research director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. Anicic 6. EFTA00701627 The National Interest China's Uncertain Path Jonathan Levine October 12, 2012 -- With the announcement that November 8

, served as a senior adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq in 2003-04, and is currently an adviser to the presidential campaign of Mitt Romney. The Daily Beast Former CIA Officials Say Iran's Clerics Want to Goad Israel Into an Attack Aram Roston EFTA00630413 March 5, 2012 -- Benjamin

an adviser to the presidential campaign of Mitt Romney. The Daily Beast Former CIA Officials Say Iran'

hic: we would be hearing about a regional conflagration involving multiple U.S. allies, sucking in U.S. forces far beyond the initial assault. When the Brookings Institution ran a war-games simulation a couple of years ago, an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities escalated into a region-wide crisis in which Iran

ama bin Laden, which today looks like an increasingly symbolic rather than substantive triumph, as jihadists spread across the greater Middle East. Mitt Romney limited his foreign policy pronouncements to sporadic and ill-considered drive-by EFTA00684270 shootings at Obama's policies. There was a momenta

84270 shootings at Obama's policies. There was a momentary debate about whether the United States was or was not in decline—Obama said it wasn't; Romney said it was, because of Obama. But since the election, the American people have grown ever more convinced that the United States really is in decli

not be so lucky. Which is why today's ambivalence in those places is already starting to shade over into anxiety. Robert Kagan is senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the United States and author, most recently, of The World America Made. EFTA00684277

States stay on top, even with anemic economic growth, rather than grow rapidly but be overtaken by China. You only need recall President Obama and Mitt Romney sparring over who would be tougher on China to see how Washington channels this popular angst. Certainly, China's growth poses some challenges — bu

a. You only need recall President Obama and Mitt Romney sparring over who would be tougher on China to s

still strong alliance with Israel, the danger of "lone wolf' terror threats. But, while a man who funds the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution may have warmed to Obama, there is no question that, in certain professional foreign-policy circles, Obama is often regarded with mistrust. His Syr

ppily ever after." If Americans just keep the faith, they can do likewise. This is the stuff of stump speeches. And it's hardly coincidental that Mitt Romney has enlisted Kagan as a "special adviser." For when it comes to American preeminence, Romney himself is very much a man of faith, his run for the p

stump speeches. And it's hardly coincidental that Mitt Romney has enlisted Kagan as a "special adviser." For when it comes to American preeminence, Romney himself is very much a man of faith, his run for the presidency anchored, he claims, in a passionate belief that "this century must be an American

S, EU and UN have heaped on to Iran's back since 2006. Yet now the terms of the bargain appear to have changed. According to an Iran specialist at the Brookings Institution, quoted in the Christian Science Monitor, US administration officials are saying: "Sanctions relief is not on the table unless and until we see su

t's failure to prevent the recent attack on the U.S. Embassy in Cairo over an anti-Islamic video and its slow response once it began. Why give the Romney campaign a free whack at the White House? With nothing to announce on the bilateral side, it was just as well that the meeting not take place. And

he Israeli public is not behind him [on Iran]," says Martin Indyk, a former ambassador to Israel and now director of the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington. "If Tel Aviv is under rocket attack and he's at war with Lebanon, and he's strained the relationship with the United States, that's