But it was more than enough to maintain a strong investigative-reporting staff of more than a dozen reporters, editors, and researchers, and to support richly detailed beat reporting across a range of local, national, and foreign-policy subjects.
After the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Giuliani was applauded for his leadership skills and became identified with national issues like domestic security and even foreign policy (a subject in which his most famous previous encounter was evicting Yasir Arafat from the city's 50th birthday concert for the United Nations).
To be sure, other areas of foreign policy are subject to sharper partisan polarization in Washington.
On foreign policy, the subject of Monday night's final presidential debate, he had little coherent to say and often sounded completely lost.
The most surprising turn of the evening came when the questions switched to foreign policy, a subject that in some of the earlier debates brought trouble for Sanders.
He plans, too, to speak out more about foreign policy, a subject that gets relatively little attention in his stump speech.
Initially eager to bone up on foreign policy — a subject on which she betrayed thorough ignorance — Palin attentively sat for an all-day tutorial with McCain's advisers that ran from the Spanish Civil War up to the present.
— President Obama and Mitt Romney entered new political terrain on Thursday as their campaign debate moved more solidly onto issues of foreign policy, a subject that had largely been absent as a major general election issue until this week.
Voters are evenly divided on which candidate they expect would do a better job dealing with the economy, but Mr. Obama has a slight edge when it comes to foreign policy, the subject of the third debate.
But Mr. Obama seemed calm and in control and seemed to hold his own on foreign policy, the subject on which Mr. McCain was assumed to hold a natural advantage.
