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January 30, 2012
Blogging the Beltway: Obama spoke with voters, and they engaged back, during a live Google+ chat.
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by Foreign Policy onJuly 23, 2010
No, the U.S. military is not trying to take over Africa. Here's what we're actually doing.
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by Foreign Policy onJune 28, 2010
Two journalists from The Root's partner site ForeignPolicy.com risk their lives to travel into the war-torn city of Mogadishu. After years of warfare over ideology, money and power, will Kandahar, Afghanistan, begin to resemble the Somali capital?
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by Foreign Policy onJune 1, 2010
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf may be the best president Liberia has ever had. But now even she faces criticism for failing to crack down on corruption.
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by Foreign Policy onMay 28, 2010
The Root's partner site ForeignPolicy.com prods U.S. troops in Kandahar to strategize "from the other side of the battle lines."
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by Greg Beals onDecember 11, 2009
Never mind the brilliant Nobel Peace Prize rhetoric and talk of a “just war,” Barack Obama is a president trying to please too many people at once. This could spell disaster in Afghanistan and the Middle East.
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December 10, 2009
Overall, Obama's speech successfully blended historical context, powerful imagery, and a hard-headed defense of force in a chaotic world. But don't let the Nobel Committee fool you: For a speech about peace, it was as much about war as the president's December 1 announcement on Afghanistan.
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by Sophia Nelson onOctober 1, 2009
When it comes to 'rogues' like Iran, Cuba and North Korea, will President Obama be feared and not liked? Or will he be liked and not feared?
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September 22, 2009
The private conversation with Clinton began and ended on the future of energy--also the subject of President Barack Obama’s address to today’s United Nations summit on climate change. Clinton, hoping to lead the conversation on the global green future, stressed over and over that the politics of environmental action is not a matter of tree-hugging but of dollars and cents.
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by Zachariah Mampilly onAugust 14, 2009
Does Hillary Clinton’s recent visit mean that the U.S. is finally willing to get serious about Congo’s crisis?
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