Massachusetts GOP Hopes Lightning Strikes Again in Senate Race
New York Times
BOSTON — The major political question here is whether Representative Edward J. Markey, a longtime member of Congress whose liberal views generally reflect those of Massachusetts voters, could actually lose the special election for the Senate seat ...
US Senate rivals step up their campaignsBoston Globe
Sen. McCain attends rally for Massachusetts Senate hopeful Gabriel GomezWCVB Boston

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Justice Dept. Investigated Fox Reporter Over Leak
New York Times
The White House on Monday defended President Obama's support for aggressive investigations into national security leaks despite new disclosures about a 2009 case in which the Justice Department searched a reporter's personal e-mails and attempted to ...
Justice Department affidavit labels Fox News journalist as possible 'co ...Fox News
Govt presses ahead on another leak caseU.S. News & World Report
Gov't presses ahead on another leak caseColumbus Ledger-Enquirer

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US Takes Steps to Add Security at Embassies
New York Times
WASHINGTON — By late this summer, the State Department plans to send dozens of additional diplomatic security agents to high-threat embassies, install millions of dollars of advanced fire-survival gear and surveillance cameras in those diplomatic ...
Kerry vows better security at US diplomatic postsThe State
Kerry challenges Congress on diplomats' securityFresno Bee

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IRS Scandal: Questions and Answers
New York Times
Congressional Republicans investigating targeting of political groups by the Internal Revenue Service are focused on what government officials knew about the department's actions, and when they found out about it. Here are some of the questions that ...

Billionaires Now Own American Politics
Mother Jones
Not since the days before a bumbling crew of would-be break-in artists set into motion the fabled Watergate scandal, leading to the first far-reaching restrictions on money in American politics, have you been so free to meddle. There is no limit to the ...

Perspective: What the IRS scandal tells us about money and politics
St. Augustine Record
Beyond the bureaucratic incompetence it exposed, this fiasco says something about the power of both money and influence in U.S. politics — and it isn't good. The groups in question were applying for recognition as social welfare organizations under ...
Onset of Woes Casts Pall Over Obama's Policy AspirationsNew York Times
US politics: Angry Obama abhors IRS scandal, dismisses tax agency's acting chiefToronto Star
Obama acts on tax, Benghazi scandalsThe Australian

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Elections That Matter: Who Runs the Board Rooms
U.S. Politics Today
On May 14, EU investigators swooped into oil company offices in London, the Netherlands and Norway, looking for evidence that a few companies had been rigging the price of oil. The companies in the cross-hairs are BP, Shell and Norway's Statoil.

Republicans Expand IRS Inquiry, With Eye on White House
New York Times
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans, not resting with the Internal Revenue Service scandal, are moving to broaden the matter to an array of tax malfeasances and “intimidation tactics” they hope will ensnare the White House.

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Are We Becoming Argentina? - by Daniel Altman
Foreign Policy (blog)
It was a logical conclusion to his term as president; despite the fragility of the Argentine polity after the dictatorship, Alfonsín's policy toward the military and his economic plans had faced almost constant opposition from the Peronists in the ...

Getting to Yes with the Taliban - by John Arquilla
Foreign Policy (blog)
Foreign Policy. National Security. Inside; Directory. Inside National Security. Directory. Columns. Gordon Adams · John Arquilla · David Barno · Rosa Brooks · Jeffrey Lewis · Amy Zegart · Micah Zenko. Blogs. The Best Defense · The E-Ring · Killer Apps ...

Curing America's Fear of Commitment - by Marc Chretien
Foreign Policy (blog)
Not since the days of Charles de Gaulle has America spilled blood and treasure on a less grateful national leader than Afghan President Hamid Karzai. In a bid to be viewed as ideologically independent, Karzai has famously criticized the West, and the ...

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Metternich in Baghdad - by Ramzy Mardini
Foreign Policy (blog)
But as the recent surge in sectarian violence has demonstrated, domestic concerns are never far from the surface -- and they bear directly on the country's foreign-policy calculus. In April, deadly clashes between government forces and demonstrators in ...

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No, They Can't - by Aaron David Miller
Foreign Policy (blog)
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | MAY 20, 2013. Six months after winning an impressive reelection, Barack Obama finds himself in some kind of trouble -- battered by semi-scandals and bombarded by foreign policy challenges he can't possibly manage.

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What the Hell Was That All About? - By Aidan Foster-Carter
Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy Magazine. Monday, May 20, 2013 Follow Facebook · RSS · Twitter · Home; Directory. Channels. National Security · AfPak · Democracy Lab · Middle East. Blogs. Michael Dobbs · Daniel Drezner · David Hoffman · Marc Lynch · Clyde Prestowitz ...

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Bassem Youssef Isn't Joking Around - by David Kenner
Foreign Policy (blog)
It has been Youssef, not the diverse array of opposition politicians, who has developed the sharpest critique of Islamism. "We have a façade. We have a pseudo-appearance of what Islam is," he told Foreign Policy. "Islam's not just about covering your hair.

In Iran, disputes over foreign policy divide presidential candidates
Washington Post
TEHRAN — Relief for Iran's ailing economy will be the top priority of Iranians on June 14, when they vote to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president. Foreign policy, however, will take on extra significance in the election, as Iran struggles to undo ...
Iran's Jalili, EU foreign policy chief hold 'useful' talksTehran Times
Iran strongly opposes nuclear weapons: MPPress TV
Senior MP: Presidential Election Not to Affect Iran's N. PoliciesFars News Agency
Hurriyet Daily News
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