The Clock’s Ticking On “60 Minutes”

An absence of journalistic due diligence, or maybe just outright disregard for it, stands at least partly to blame for the decline of the once-venerable “60 Minutes.”

Jeffrey Cavanaugh
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh

1968 was one of the 20th century’s most pivotal years. In January, the United States was knocked on its heels by the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, a massive attack by the Hanoi-directed Viet Cong guerilla army. Though a military failure, it brought home to America that the war was unwinnable. For a people long accustomed to military victory, such an

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US Looks to Expand Rapid-Reaction Force for Africa

The force, based in Spain, wants to bulk up its numbers to better respond to emergency situations on an increasingly volatile continent.

Les Neuhaus
By Les Neuhaus

The U.S. has asked Spain if it can expand an already 500-strong Marine rapid-reaction force for Africa by a minimum of 50 percent, along with extending its presence at the current base by another year, according to a report by a Spanish newspaper on Monday. Recent events in Mali and Libya have partly motivated the move to strengthen the

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A Hillary Clinton Bid For The Presidency: Not So ‘Inevitable’ After All?

As speculation grows on the possibility of Clinton taking another shot at the Oval Offices, commentators point to challenges she would face.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese

A year ahead of the 2014 midterm elections, the nation’s imagination is not focused on whether the Democrats will continue to hold the Senate or if the House Republicans have gambled away their “bulletproof” control of the House. The nation is focused on a 65-year-old retiree from Westchester County, N.Y. and what her future plans may be. Even

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Obama’s Ruffles Some Feathers With His New National Security Advisor Pick

Replacing Rice as ambassador to the UN will be Samantha Power, an anti-genocide activist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese

On Wednesday, President Obama introduced former Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice as the replacement to Tom Donilon as National Security Advisor. In doing so, the president may have rubbed salt into congressional Republicans’ Benghazi wounds and also may have slammed shut any remote chance of a bipartisan truce. Replacing Rice at the UN

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Scandals With Traction?

Thirty-nine percent of polled Republicans convinced that the Benghazi issue is the worst scandal in American history don’t know where Benghazi is.

John Nordin
By John Nordin

Forty-one percent of Republicans, according to a recent poll, think the “cover-up” of Benghazi is the “biggest political scandal in American history. Forty-three percent disagree; 74 percent think it was worse than Watergate. The noise machine is in full cry. The president lied, didn’t care about the attack, and tried to blame a video rather than

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