By • Jan 14,2009

Tortured detainees can't be prosecuted

So the former general counsel of the U.S. Army tells Bob Woodward: “We tortured [Mohammed al-]Qahtani,” said Susan J. Crawford, in her first interview since being named convening authority of...

By • Jan 14,2009

So, how was the dinner?

That was the question my sister asked me this morning when she read about the President-elect’s dinner over at Mr. George Will’s house. I had a nice chuckle and explained...

By • Jan 13,2009

The Freaky Friday hypothesis

I see that Ross and Megan are revisiting Stephen Walt’s counterfactual history of the Israel-Palestine situation — the one Brose put paid to already. For those who thought such “What...

By • Jan 13,2009

Weird Science

I love how Andrew Sullivan calls this post by Will Saletan a “fisking” of a L’Osservatore Romano article about the pill and the possible effects of oestrogen pollution. All Saletan...