By Nina Burleigh 1/29 7:41pm

The Bombshell

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Time for the Military to Solve Its Rape Problem

For 30 years, women’s groups have been fighting to put American women in combat. Last week they won. Women can now apply for 237,000 positions—primarily infantry and army—from which they were previously banned. That’s a quarter of a million new jobs, and outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta deserves applause for opening them up.

But is it really time to uncork the champagne for our future G.I. Janes? Allowing qualified women into combat is a political triumph. But there’s a more insidious problem for women in the military, a misogynistic tradition older than the nation itself: when men go to war, women get raped. Read More

By Jason Horowitz 10/29/08 2:20pm

Next Up: Obama Versus Congressional Dems?

For the nearly two years he has been running for president, Barack Obama has deftly defined himself as a post-partisan candidate who embodies the hopes of both liberals and centrists among the Democrats in Congress.

If he wins, it won’t be long before some of them are sorely disappointed.

“For some members, they are going Read More

By Jason Horowitz 5/21/08 12:03am

Best And Brightest Of Clinton Hands Seek Obama Treaty

Robert Einhorn is a hot property.

An expert at the Center for Strategic and International studies, he currently chairs Hillary Clinton’s advisory group on nonproliferation and arms control, a critical political issue as Iran has emerged as a source of bitter conflict between Barack Obama and John McCain.

The Obama campaign already has Read More

By Niall Stanage 2/26/08 4:43pm

Panetta's Lament: They Had No Plan

The argument that the constant carping about Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been a function of an Obama-friendly, process-obsessed media is well and good. But how, then, to explain the deeply held dissatisfaction of an old Clinton loyalist like Leon Panetta?

In an interview with The Observer, Mr. Panetta compared Mrs. Clinton’s top strategist, Mark Penn, Read More