Author: Laura Heaton

In front of amped up students smeared with blue and gray paint, a sold-out arena, and President Obama and his entourage, students and alumni from Georgetown and Duke universities kicked off their partnership today with the Darfur Dream Team ...

Foreign Policy’s Josh Rogin offers the first glimpse behind-the-scenes at the deputies committee meeting last week at the National Security Council ...

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Briefing journalists after a U.N. Security Council meeting on Sudan yesterday, Ambassador Susan Rice offered perhaps the most pointed remarks we’ve seen from the Obama administration on their efforts in Sudan – fully warranted given the very high stakes in Sudan this year and the recent uptick in violence ...

Tomorrow night, President Obama will deliver his State of the Union address, reflecting on his first year in office and articulating his priorities for the country in the coming year. What will you be listening for in the president’s speech? ...

Longtime rivals Georgetown and Duke will go head to head at Washington, D.C.’s Verizon Center this Saturday afternoon in one of college basketball’s most anticipated games of the season. But it’s a new partnership off the court that had Enough’s John Prendergast and Houston Rockets star Tracy McGrady clamoring for tickets ...

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Longtime Washington Post columnist Al Kamen gave this week’s Sudan Now campaign, targeting the deputies committee of the National Security Council, an extra boost today ...

We spent part of the morning with Mr. Bebe, headmaster of Yei Day Secondary School, who recently returned to his native home of Yei to fill the post of headmaster at the town’s only co-ed secondary school ...

In a strange sort of way, it was almost reassuring to hear people complaining about the trees. Compared to the grievances one typically hears when talking to people about their lives and their fears for the future in southern Sudan, the mango tree controversy seemed more like a public relations problem for the local government than anything else ...