Center for Strategic Communication

Look beyond winners and losers in the DoD budget

If politics have become a zero-sum game, then budgets are now seen less as an expression of policy intent and more as a scorecard. There is no better example than the White House’s fiscal 2014 budget for the Defense Department. The request of $526.6 billon marks a...

A Hillary Clinton Report Card

 By Patricia Lee Sharpe Now is the time to praise, deride or simply to try to assess Hillary Clinton’s contributions to American diplomacy as Secretary of State. Did she improve our standing in the world? Did she deepen Americans’ understanding of what diplomacy is,...