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Analysis of President Bush's State of the Union address and his priorities for the coming year on national security, health care, Katrina recovery plans and the U.S. economy
E.J. Dionne, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, Washington Post columnist, and author of "Stand Up Fight Back."
David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union and managing associate with Carmen Group, a D.C.-based governmental-affairs firm
Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute
Many bemoan the dominance of the United States in world affairs. Foreign policy expert Michael Mandelbaum explains how the U.S. acts as the world's government, and why, if America gave up this role, the world would be a worse place.
Michael Mandelbaum, Professor of American Foreign Policy at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and author or co-author of nine books, including "The Ideas that Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century."