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Tom LoBianco has covered energy and environmental policy, including the climate change bill making its way through Congress. From 2007 to 2008, he covered Maryland politics from the Times's Annapolis bureau.
Tom hold's a master's degree in political science from Northeastern University and a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park. He spent two and a half years working as a policy analyst, legislative staffer and nonprofit organizer in Boston before returning to the D.C. area to cover politics.
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009
The era of American military dominance, or "Pax Americana," is dwindling as the nation loses its position far atop the global marketplace, a congressional military analyst said Wednesday.
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
Retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark urged members of Congress Tuesday to adopt an exit strategy for U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009
Ret. Gen. Wesley K. Clark urged members of Congress Tuesday to adopt an exit strategy for American forces in Afghanistan.
Monday, Nov. 16, 2009
Former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani called President Obama soft on terrorism for deciding to try the acknowledged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.
Monday, Nov. 16, 2009
The U.S. has no long-term commitment to Afghanistan other than to root al Qaeda from the war-torn nation, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said.
Doesn't toe party line on Afghanistan or health care
Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton finds himself in the center of the debate over a string of politically sensitive issues in which he is not always in line with the majority in his own party.
Urges action on climate change
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009
German Chancellor Angela Merkel marked next week's 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with a speech to Congress on Tuesday calling for a new global financial order and for wealthy nations to make a climate-change deal next month in Copenhagen.
Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with a speech to Congress calling for global financial order and for wealthy nations to strike a climate-change deal next month.
Obama has yet to decide whether to increase troops
Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009
With Afghan President Hamid Karzai now in place for a second term, Democrats and Republicans said the clock is ticking faster for President Obama to decide whether to surge the number of U.S. troops there.
White House vows to work with Karzai
Monday, Nov. 2, 2009
White House officials downplayed Afghan presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah's decision to pull out of this week's scheduled runoff election and said they would work with President Hamid Karzai.