I was actually glad to see that Barack Obama had written an op-ed about healthcare reform for the Sunday Times. I haven’t paid serious attention to all the talk about...
Dexter Filkins of the NY Times reports from the village of Tarakai in Helmand province, one of the most violent in Afghanistan. The residents of Tarakai explain very clearly why...
That may sound hopelessly wonky, but what it means is thousands of dollars off my tax bill, each and every year. I’m not kidding. My wife and I will be...
Jon Last sharply questions the Twitter-euphoria generated by recent events in Tehran. In spite of rose-tinted predictions that historians would celebrate Twitter’s liberation of Iran and the beginning of a...
Last week, Christopher Caldwell reviewed Bradley Graham’s new book about Donald Rumsfeld. As soon as I have time to digest 800 pages of Graham’s prose, I’ll let you know what...
The week before last, I pointed out the WaPo’s assessment that Barack Obama “hasn’t included any particularly controversial choices in his first picks” for the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In...
