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• What $100 Barrels Have Meant

  - 2008-01-03

  Oil has broken the $100/barrel mark for the first time, and as our own Jessica Stillman reports, its driving up the price of gum. But exactly how much are the stratospheric oil spots truly affecting the bread-and-butter (or more appropriately, the milk and eggs)? Washington Post pins the YOY price...

  Tags: U.S., OPEC, Washington Post Co., Real Estate, Business Operations, Jonathan Haeber

• US examines Iraqi refugees backlog after envoy's complaint

  - 2007-09-17

  WASHINGTON AFP — The US government said Monday it was looking at appointing a new refugees overseer after its Baghdad ambassador complained that red tape is holding up 10,000 Iraqis from entering the country. In a diplomatic cable to the State Department reported by the Washington Post, ambassador Ryan...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, ambassador, Cable, Government, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, U.N., U.S., U.S. Department of State, U.S. Government, Washington Post Co.

• Iraq War Coverage Differs In U.S., German Papers

  - 2007-07-01

  A content analysis of The Washington Post and the Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung revealed that both papers relied on official sources, but the German paper provided far less coverage of the conflict. On March 19,2003, the United States military led a "pre-emptive" strike on Iraq, thrusting media into a...

  Tags: analysis, Germany, Gulf, Iraq, journalist, MARKETING, media, U.S., Washington Post Co.

• Rice's mission: Secretary Rice is seeking help from moderate Arab nations to revive peace talks

  - 2007-04-17

  WHEN SECRETARY of State Condoleezza Rice traveled to the Middle East in late March, she took along a plan to provide both Israeli and Palestinian leaders with "a political horizon." The plan, says Washington Post reporter Glenn Kessler, depends on her ability to "coax the Israelis" into giving the Palestinians...

  Tags: cabinet, diplomat, Government, secretary, SOFTWARE, U.S., Washington Post Co.

• Marshall Institute

  - 2006-12-01

  A newly revised U.S. space policy puts defense at the top of the list. It reads, in part, that the goal is to "strengthen the nation's space leadership and ensure that space capabilities are available in time to further U.S. national security, homeland security, and foreign policy objectives" and to...

  Tags: Government, Leadership, U.S., U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Government, Washington Post Co.

• ISRAEL LOBBY AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY, THE

  - 2006-10-01

  PREFACE In March 2006, we published an essay entitled "The Israel Lobby" in The London Review of Books (Vol. 28, No. 6, March 23, 2006). At the suggestion of several well-respected scholars who had read earlier drafts, we also posted a slightly longer and documented version of the article on...

  Tags: Arab, Ariel, ATTACK, Bush, Church, Democracy, Guardian, Iran, Iraq, Iron, Israel, Kaplan, Lewis, Libby, Lobby, lobby, M., Mitchell, New York Times Co., NYU, Paul, president, Richard, Robert, Saddam, STUDIES, Syria, Terror, Tom, Tony, U.S., Wall, Washington Post Co.

• Washington Post conditionally supports preemptive strike on N. Korea

  - 2006-07-10

  WASHINGTON, July 6 Kyodo The Washington Post conditionally supported a preemptive U.S. military strike against North Korea to prevent Pyongyang's further missile launches in its editorial on Thursday. ''If China and South Korea are serious about stopping North Korea's development of weapons of mass destruction,...

  Tags: missile, U.S., Washington Post Co.

• NUCLEAR IRAN: PERILS AND PROSPECTS

  - 2006-07-01

  On April 11, 2006, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, proudly and triumphantly announced that the Islamic Republic had joined "the club of nuclear countries." Calling it "a very historic moment" of epochal significance, he said that Iranian scientists had succeeded in enriching uranium in a pilot test, thus paving the way...

  Tags: Government, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Israel, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, U.S., Washington, Washington Post Co.

• Newspaper ideological bias or "statist quo"? The acid test

  - 2006-07-01

  I Introduction FOR 30 YEARS, debate has swirled around the alleged "liberal bias" of U.S. journalists, and especially journalists who write for publications such as Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Sutter (2001) has written that a veritable "cottage industry" has sprung up as...

  Tags: Boston Globe, Bush, Government, hypothesis, journalist, Media, Monthly, New York Times Co., regression, Robert, scientist, SOFTWARE, Tribune Co., U.S., Washington Post Co.

• Lynne Stewart, Jihadi lawyer.

  - 2006-01-01

  A federal court will soon sentence attorney Lynne Stewart to prison for "providing material support" to terrorists, among related charges. (1) The charges center upon her assistance to Egyptian sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman who, from a federal prison cell in Minnesota, has continued his quest both...

  Tags: attorney, Egypt, Government, Islamist, New York Times Co., terrorism, U.S., Washington Post Co.