Commentary

By David Donadio • Sep 09,2008

Selling long-term solutions in a short-term town

Husain Haqqani, now ambassador of Pakistan to the United States, gave a good talk Friday at the Carnegie Endowment (full disclosure: my day job), where he was previously a fellow....

By AF Editors • Sep 09,2008

It's a mystery

Just rewatched Ratatouille tonight. It’s still a delightful film, but one thing nagged me throughout: how did those hyper-intelligent rats make their way to France in the first place?

By Damir Marusic • Sep 09,2008

The Inevitability of Great Power Conflict

Ezra Klein (via Monsieur Poulos) reads an interview with McCain foreign policy guru Randy Scheunemann and rightly gets scared. I take issue with part of his great power conflict analysis,...

By Sonny Bunch • Sep 09,2008

Voting against Obama is racist

I thought that was where this column by Sophia Nelson was headed, especially after reading this paragraph: Many black Americans are holding their collective breath, hoping that the most stubborn...

By Damir Marusic • Sep 09,2008

A badly fractured (far right, pro-Russian) Radical Party in Serbia. Yes, the Bush Administration approached Kosovo’s recognition reflexively and without much forethought. But in this case, their decision seems to...

By AF Editors • Sep 09,2008

The Floating Tomb

Things hadn’t been well for a long time. He could afford to admit it now that it was all over, and he had returned home from the funeral, his mind...

Selling long-term solutions in a short-term town

It's a mystery

The Inevitability of Great Power Conflict

Voting against Obama is racist

What Kosovo Gets Us

The Floating Tomb