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Steve Coll
Presisent & CEO, The New American Foundation; Author
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Karim Sadjapour, of the Carnegie Endowment, has updated his exceptionally useful pr
June 19, 2009, 6:30 PM
Postcards from Equatorial Guinea
The only country in the world that appears to be immune to the global recession lies between Cameroon and Gabon, along the Gulf of Guinea. Equatorial Guinea is also the only former Spanish colony in...
June 18, 2009, 1:00 PM
Greetings from Malabo, the capital city of Equatorial Guinea, in West Africa. The ground-rule agreements that have carried me here preclude me from saying much more at this point, but I do hope to post...
June 17, 2009, 12:19 PM
…is the title of a not-bad Ben Folds Five song and the theme of today’s not particularly urgent note from Madrid. I flew overnight on Iberia with a group of American wine marketers who were...
June 12, 2009, 1:45 PM
There are several bills within the stimulus bill. One of them is called “Health Information Technology and Quality,” which is essentially a fully cooked piece of legislation laying out goals, administration, and funding for a...
June 9, 2009, 2:22 PM
Steve Coll is President & CEO of New America Foundation, and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. Previously he spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent and senior editor at The Washington Post, serving as the paper's managing editor from 1998 to 2004. He is the author of six books, including The Deal of the Century: The Break Up of AT&T (1986); The Taking of Getty Oil (1987); Eagle on the Street, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the SEC's battle with Wall Street (with David A. Vise, 1991); On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey into South Asia (1994), Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (2004); and The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century (2008).
