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Michael Crowley is an American journalist, and currently senior editor and columnist at The New Republic magazine. He is also a frequent contributor to GQ magazine, Slate.com, the Readers Digest, and the Washington City Paper. He guest-blogged for a time at Talking Points Memo.

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Sunni Awakening, Afghan Version

In Iraq, the U.S.-funded Sons of Iraq program got as many as 100,000 Sunni insurgents to stop fighting the U.S., or even take up arms against the group Al Qaeda in Iraq, by forming paramilitary groups. Efforts are underway to move them into state ...

From MICHAEL CROWLEY, The New Republic,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Taliban,  Al-Qaeda,  Stanley A. McChrystal,  NATO

Why Did Iran Flip-Flop on that Nuclear Deal?

[W]hat happened is that Jalili returned from Vienna to a place where the leadership had systematically made enemies of many in the Iranian establishment, including the speaker of the Parliament, Ali Larijani, who was the former chief nuclear negotiator ...

From MICHAEL CROWLEY, The New Republic,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ali Larijani,  Mir-Hossein Mousavi,  Mehdi Karroubi

Shake up the Foreign Policy Team?

Les Gelb thinks Obama's trip to Asia was a flop, and that the time would have been better spent on a Hawaii vacation. He also wonders whether, after a couple of foreign trips with little to show for them, Obama's foreign policy team is serving him well: ...

From MICHAEL CROWLEY, The New Republic,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

Israel and Hamas Near a Deal for Shalit?

The swap--1,000 Palestinians for the young Israeli soldier captured in 2006 could be a minor breakthrough in the intractable Gaza standoff--and also support for the recent claim that the two sides have been secretly talking. Why football reflects the ...

From MICHAEL CROWLEY, The New Republic,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Hamas,  Howell Raines

Karzai 1, Holbrooke 0

Is someone from the Pentagon taking a shot at Holbrooke in that WashPost story on Obama's "reset" with Karzai that Jason linked? Note this: "We've been treating Karzai like [Slobodan] Milosevic," a senior Pentagon official said, referring to the former ...

From MICHAEL CROWLEY, The New Republic,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: The Pentagon,  Barack Obama,  US State Department,  Richard Holbrooke

Views From the Iranian Opposition

Unfortunately, the spokesman thinks the regime is incapable of cutting a deal with the West over its nuclear program, because that program is fundamental to its very survival. Yet he also says that military action will only rally public support around ...

From MICHAEL CROWLEY, The New Republic,  20 Nov 2009

My Dinner With Sotomayor

Well, not exactly. Ben Smith blogs my tweet about dining two tables away from the newest Justice at the nice, but modest ($20 entrees), Brooklyn restaurant Po last night. Which is not a shocker, as Sotomayor once lived in the neighborhood (it's called ...

From MICHAEL CROWLEY, The New Republic,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Alec Baldwin,  Victoria Beckham,  Twitter Inc

Israel Talking With Hamas?

In an interview, Abbas says they're discussing a Palestinian state with temporary borders. Hamas is denying it. But if the talks were secret, that's to be expected.  Palin puts the "party" back in GOP. Intellectual rigor. Honest reporting. Influential ...

From MICHAEL CROWLEY, The New Republic,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Hamas,  U.S. Republican Party

Giuliani Not Running for NY Governor

Even though a recent poll had Giuliani beating [Gillibrand] by nine points, Giuliani laughs off the idea. "My value is in running things," he told me. "Commenting is great, but I get to do that anyway on television and radio and [in] op-ed pieces." "It’ ...

From MICHAEL CROWLEY, The New Republic,  19 Nov 2009

Barack Obama and Foreign Policy by Biography

The Washington Post writes today about the limits of Obama's biography in foreign policy. The paper's story notes that Obama talked extensively about his biography and personal experiences in Asia, then asks: But is his biography-as-diplomacy approach ...

From MICHAEL CROWLEY, The New Republic,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Washington Post Company,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  John McCain,  David Axelrod

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