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Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

Today in Washington

Gregory Johnsen

Apologies for the extended absence from blogging. It couldn’t be helped. A lot has happened in the last two weeks, some of which I’ll even be blogging about in the days to come, but for the moment and for those of you in Washington DC I would like to draw your attention to this event at the New America Foundation today and, of course, the accompanying report. Written by a number of heavy hitters, it looks amazing.

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