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...funding cuts under the legislation. The district is also one of the oldest in the state, and McMahon says that over 40% of his seniors are on Medicare Advantage, a program that will be gutted by the new bill. "My constituents are very happy with [my] vote because they understand and they share my concerns," McMahon says in an interview outside the bingo hall. "I know some people are upset, but I've already begun meeting with the progressive clubs in the district to try and smooth things over...
...still under the ruins, kids and young boys," says Jasim Talib Khalil, 43, a father of four who lives in the north-central Alawi neighborhood, close to the National Museum, near a bombed apartment building with a bustling video-game and coffee shop inside it. "We do not understand what is going on and what to do. We are not safe even in our homes. Today bombs bring us back to the past years when there were mortars and attacks in the residential areas." (See pictures of the suicide attacks in Baghdad in October...
...when asked if the attacks over the past few days are omens of worse things to come. "It reflects a typical pattern that al-Qaeda has used before, and that's why we continue to say it's al-Qaeda and not sectarian attacks." U.S. officials insist that to understand Iraq properly, observers must somehow consider each new deadly day as a last-ditch effort of a "spent political force," as Gary Grappo, political counselor at the U.S. embassy, refers to al-Qaeda...
...without a coherent China strategy. So the more interesting question is not what is in Hu's mind but what is in Obama's. Does Obama have a clear sense of the man he is dealing with and how to shape the tense landscape of our relations? Does he understand the rules of power that might make real friendship with China possible - or lead to catastrophic deadlock? (See pictures of the mysterious life of Hu Jintao...
...ambitious, to be sure, but it is too insecure to be audacious yet. In the next 10 years, this will change. China will build a global-size foreign policy apparatus just as it has built stadiums and airports. But will this framework be crafted and staffed by people who understand the Western temperament and who see the virtue of cooperation? Or will it be handed to those who have won their positions by insisting that the West wants China to fail? And what about the West? What habits will guide us? (See five things the U.S. and China actually agree...