Management
Analysis: Ambition and anguish drive John Kerry
He will likely pursue an activist agenda as secretary of State.
Management
Team of Mentors: Biden, Kerry, and Hagel Are Obama's Senate Mafia
The president's emerging second-term national-security team will likely include a longstanding cabal in place before Obama reached Washington.
Defense
Is Chuck Hagel a pacifist?
The former GOP senator, a possible Obama nominee to run the Pentagon, is haunted by Vietnam.
Defense
How the main candidates for Defense chief differ
Chuck Hagel and Michelle Flournoy, both haunted by the ghosts of Vietnam, represent a stark choice for Obama.
Management
Analysis: Obama gets a solution to his Susan Rice problem
Leading secretary of State candidate allows him to dump her without seeming to.
Defense
Aides: Obama 'genuinely conflicted' between Rice and Kerry for secretary of State
Decision could come as early as next week.
Defense
Benghazi may be the least of Susan Rice's problems
Rights activists say she's been dancing with African dictators since the '90s.
Defense
Obama’s quagmire: Syria and the Islamist arc
Hammered on leadership, the president struggles for a Middle East policy.
Oversight
Can Romney Really Lead?
Questions crop up about how the GOP candidate would run the government.
Management
Is 'smart regulation' not?
Obama says he’s revolutionizing government; Romney says the president just wants more government.
Defense
Afghanistan commander: 'My sound bite is, we're being successful'
Gen. Allen counters suggestions of Taliban strength.
Defense
Mission accomplished -- at last?
Obama acknowledges the conflict in Afghanistan may never be completely over.
Defense
Analysis: One year after bin Laden's death, a new world
Even U.S. conservatives are battling over how to handle the 'post-al Qaeda era.'
Management
Obama economic team goes on offense
Geithner and Sperling criticize Romney but differ on the extent of the president's economic plan.
Defense
Shootings likely to upend Afghanistan strategy
Tragedy steps up pressure to find a faster way out of the conflict.
Oversight
Gingrich would tap John Bolton for secretary of State
Senate Democrats filibustered Bolton in 2005, before he won a recess appointment as ambassador to the United Nations.
News
Analysis: Obama’s Economy -- or Not?
There's probably not much the president could have done about the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression -- except possibly lead better.
News
Government, S&P target credibility
Treasury in recent days has called the credit rater's downgrade fundamentally flawed, attacked its math, and has sought to discredit the agency by citing its poor performance during the credit bubble.
Defense
Analysis: Defining down war
Obama is already adept at going to war without saying so, but the team of Panetta and Petraeus is likely to turn this age-old deception into an art form.
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