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Afghanistan Strike Kills 90

Staff / Truthdig Sep 4, 2009 The war in Afghanistan should weigh heavy on the public's mind, given the recent increase in troop levels and grumblings from high military officials about the manner in which the war is being fought. Now there's news that a NATO airstrike has killed 90 people, 40 of them believed to be civilians, in the northern part of the country. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama Looks for an ‘Exit Strategy’ in Afghanistan

Staff / Truthdig Mar 23, 2009 The president has frustrated his anti-war base with plans to escalate the war in Afghanistan, but he told "60 Minutes" on Sunday that he's not looking to stay indefinitely: "What we can't do is think that just a military approach in Afghanistan is going to be able to solve our problems So what we're looking for is a comprehensive strategy And there's got to be an exit strategy". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Is Axelrod Walking in Rove’s Footsteps?

Staff / Truthdig Nov 25, 2008 David Axelrod is not Karl Rove, so what's he doing in his office? Barack Obama was elected to bring change to Washington, but like his predecessor, he's bringing his top political strategist into the White House. The Boston Globe questions whether that's the best idea. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Karl Rove Praises Obama’s Campaign Team

Staff / Truthdig Nov 7, 2008 Bush's brain gets inside the minds of Obama campaign manager David Plouffe and strategist David Axelrod to explain the president-elect's success: "Messrs. Plouffe and Axelrod understood that over the last 28 years only 11 of 20 eligible Americans on average cast a presidential ballot. They focused on registering and motivating the other nine who don't usually vote." Yes, he wrote "Messrs." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

New Strategy

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McCain Campaign Revamped by Rove Protégé

Staff / Truthdig Sep 7, 2008 "Fun Steve is dead" was the announcement that Steve Schmidt, the McCain campaign adviser who The New York Times notes "worked closely with Karl Rove" in 2002 and 2004, made to his team at a particularly low moment last summer. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of the bombastic tactics Team McCain has since adopted can be traced to the demise of "Fun Steve." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Life After Penn

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Apr 8, 2008 The most striking critiques of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign have come not from her opponents or her enemies but from her most loyal friends. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Clintons Campaign Brain Gets the Boot

Staff / Truthdig Apr 7, 2008 Hillary Clinton has parted ways with her chief strategist, Mark Penn, who left her campaign Sunday after his controversial moonlighting as a lobbyist reportedly angered both Sen. Clinton and her husband. Penn was said to be unpopular with other top-tier advisers, in part because of his sweeping influence over the campaign. Update: Not so fast. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Circling the Wagons in Baghdad

Staff / Truthdig Dec 17, 2007 Despite touting increased stability in the outer provinces as proof of the success of the "surge," the U.S. military is about to abandon those regions altogether. The Pentagon's new strategy for dealing with a reduction of forces in Iraq is essentially to pull back to Baghdad and hope for the best. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Leading Iraqis Get Practical

Staff / Truthdig Oct 8, 2007 If one were to ask President Bush to make sense of his strategy in Iraq, he would likely suggest that by providing stability, the Iraqi government could work toward reconciliation and an end to sectarian bloodletting, but according to several key Iraqi leaders, that just isn't going to happen. Better, they argue, to focus on the basics of governing and providing services that Iraqis continue to suffer without. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Pollster Greenberg Launches Political Journal

Staff / Truthdig Jun 21, 2006 Democratic powerhouse pollster Stan Greenberg has launched The Democratic Strategist, a publication that "brings together the latest solid research on public attitudes and social trends with extended, ongoing discussion of long-range Democratic political strategy." Dig deeper