Featured Articles — November 6, 2009

November 6, 2009 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Featured Articles 

Interesting takes from home and abroad:

Why the Wall Fell By James Baker III, Newsweek
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and President Ronald Reagan together in 1987.

Hello, Tipping Point By Kimberley Strassel, The Wall Street Journal
The Obama presidency was always a race against time.

The Myth of ‘08, Demolished By Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post
Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans to raise money and recruit candidates for 2010. But the most important effect of Tuesday’s elections is historical. It demolishes the great realignment myth of 2008.

Barack Obama must stop dithering – or Afghanistan will be his Vietnam By Com Coughlin, Daily Telegraph
Despite the murder of five British soldiers, now is not the time for faint hearts, writes Con Coughlin.

Bunkers or Breakthrough? By Roger Cohen, The New York Times
In his last month as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei finds himself at the explosive crux of the world’s nuclear politics, ferrying messages between the Obama administration and Tehran. “They are talking through me,” he says.

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