By • Sep 05,2008

NATO's Paper Tiger

Frank Fukuyama asks all the right questions about our foolish Georgia policy over at The American Interest‘s blog. (Full disclosure: my other job is at AI.) If Cheney and McCain...

By • Sep 05,2008

Baldwinonomics

I really got a kick out of the New Yorker’s profile of Alec Baldwin. A number of things struck me,* but this sentence has a deeper grain of truth to...

By • Sep 05,2008

The Agony of Choice

Every presidential election is disappointing in its own way, but 2008 is like being forced to decide which foot to blow off. From the Republicans, we get a foreign policy...

By • Sep 04,2008

A community organizer

Over at The Plank, Sacha Zimmerman asks ‘Since when is a “community organizer” such a big bad thing to the Republicans? I mean, aren’t delegatesessentially–nay, actually–community organizers? And shouldn’t Republicans,...