I’m working from home today–journalists don’t take days off! Snow, rain, inaugurations, traffic jams…none of these things stop us!–so I don’t have any flowery prose celebrating the inauguration of Barack...
How historically illiterate do you have to be to write a post like this, a post that ignores some pretty basic, fundamental, and scarring moments from very recent American history…unless,...
Via Commentary, I see that Natan Sharansky has an interesting column up at Bloomberg on the historical parallels between the second intifada and Hamas’s attacks on Israel over the last...
I forgot to post something on the tragic shooting of Oscar Grant last week, but Radley Balko has done a fine job of summarizing my immediate thoughts after seeing the...
Writing about the choice of Leon Panetta for head of the CIA, Andrew Sullivan wrote in the Times of London that [t]he first name floated for CIA head was John...
An American war crime, that is. 800 Somali civilians dead compared to 18 American soldiers. Jeffrey Goldberg asks Mark Bowden whether or not the Americans committed a war crime. Bowden’s...
