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… t drop the soap” even made its way to the animated Family Guy. Meanwhile, reacting to the Tosh tirade, Julie Burton, president of the Women’ s Media Center, stated: “If free soeech permits a comedian to suggest a woman in his audience should be gang-raped, then it certainly pe...

… the Israeli prime minister, and Yasser Arafat, the PLO chairman, shaking hands to seal the deal in front of a beaming president Bill Clinton. And sitting anonymously among the thousands of global dignitaries who had flocked to Washington to witness this historic event was Terje...

… also had to oversee the individual functions of the executive office departments. But Bannon, Kushner, Conway, and the president’s daughter actually had no specific responsibilities—they could make it up as they went along. They did what they wanted. They would seize the day if...

…ublic policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His book, Can America Have Another Great President?, will be published in 2012. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030076

…, Russia is taking its place as the non-Arab power player in the Middle East. The chill in US-Russia relations has left President Putin free to defy Washington. Without predictable US-support, our allies may have only one direction to turn as Russia capitalizes on every USA misst...

…col”. You may know the word from the realm of diplomacy, where protocols ritualize and decide everything from where the President sits at a dinner to howa letter must be addressed. In technical terms a “protocol” is also a rulebook too. Some network protocols you may have heard o...

…, relying heavily on invocations of Soviet history. The Ukrainian protesters and activists who helped drive out corrupt president Viktor Yanukovych, and the European-oriented politicians who replaced him, were repeatedly labeled as present-day followers of Stepan Bandera, a cont...

… Central European version of Putin? Orban's domestic critics have often compared his governing style to that of Russian president Vladimir Putin. On the surface, the comparison seems unfair. Hungary is still rated Free by Freedom House. It still has genuine opposition parties, ho...

…3a27d4e452178cc8f199d9386&id=fa8cele400&e=5c5da67d46> Worthwhile Reads * Jeff Weiner: How LinkedIn is Helping Power the President's Tech Jobs Initiative LINK<http://reidhoffman.us7.1ist- managel.com/track/click?u=3a27d4e452178cc8f199d9386&id=604ec30797&e=5c5da67d46> * The New Yor...

… and transcends politics or art or philosophy. You are as likely to find a copy of his book on the desk of a university President as stuffed into the back pocket of a tea-server in Chengdu. As you can imagine, when my friend first introduced me to the idea of someone like Master...

…nder scrutiny for his business dealings and tumultuous personal life. In today’s political culture, people running for President may... HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025314

…ed to buy a $50-million corporate jet in early 2009, shortly after receiving $45-billion in taxpayer funds. Days later, President Obama took note in an Oval Office interview. About the jet, he said, “They should know better.” And the bonuses, he said, were “shameful.” What is sh...

…n Manhattan, a Palm Beach mansion and his own island in the Caribbean. At one point he counted among his friends former President Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and other high-powered figures. The appeal court decision described the background of Epstein's case, stating that in 2006...

…elings are raw. Filmmakers are exhausted from campaigning. At Bryan Lourd's famous star studded party Sony Classics' Co-President Michael Barker announces to me he has taken a random sampling of voters in the room. He says, "There will be a 'Social Network' upset at the Kodak The...

…ther sentence with a positive ending. Meanwhile, Happy Earth Day. The Last Word: Yikes! When George W. Bush was elected president in the year 2000, it was due to the electoral college (a rigged system which originally intended to prevent slaves from voting and evolved to gerryman...