Outside New York: A Crisis Guide

Former City Council staffer Brittany Mariotti sends word that her current employer, the Council on Foreign Relations, has a new interactive site about North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.

The Korea Crisis Guide includes a map whic explains where North Korea is (admit you need it); shows the military strength of neighboring countries, and gives economic Read More

Schumer's Iraq Muse

Even Leslie Gelb, the intellectual godfather of the plan to separate Iraq into three autonomous and ethnically homogenous regions, was taken aback by Sen. Chuck Schumer’s recent expression of support for the idea.

“It surprised me too,” said Gelb, who is the president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. “It’s a conversion, Read More

Hillary: Enough Hevesi Already

At Hillary Clinton’s appearance at the Council on Foreign Relations today, ICM literary agent Esther Newberg asked her about, again, Alan Hevesi.

“Can we get back to talking about nuclear proliferation?” Sen. Clinton asked.

“This is not a pleasant experience for those of us who are friends of his.”

If Mr. Hevesi were elected Read More

Events for June 16, 2006

The Council on Foreign Relations will hold a conversation with Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq’s minister of foreign affairs.

John Jay College holds a forum on felon disenfranchisement.

Ted Kennedy, joined by his dog, Splash, read from “My Senator and Me: A Dog’s Eye View of Washington, D.C.” at P.S. 11.

Keith Wright and others hold Read More