Author: Sonny Bunch
By Sonny Bunch • Jan 20,2009

Inaugural post

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...

By Sonny Bunch • Jan 17,2009

Historical illiteracy

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,...

By Sonny Bunch • Jan 16,2009

Sharansky on disproportionate force

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...

By Sonny Bunch • Jan 16,2009

BART shooting

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...

By Sonny Bunch • Jan 13,2009

Was “Black Hawk Down” a war crime?

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...