Minxin Pei thinks that the Pyongyang regime is unlikely to survive a transition from Kim Jong Il to his son. While the prospects for a collapse of the North Korean state are debatable, it's unquestionably true that the regional states ought to be thinking and...
Month: May 2010
R.I.P. Ronnie James Dio, taken by stomach cancer rather than dragons or evil women, as many of us would have predicted. Alas, we'll always have the memories of his unappreciated.
New York Times reporter Scott Shane "informed us" Friday of the "legal debate" over whether the US government has a right to target assassinate summarily execute its own citizens: The.
Drezner is a touch concerned about a potential EFCA (Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement) between Taiwan and China: While China's economic leverage over the United States is limited, this kind of agreement would ratchet up the asymmetric dependence of Taiwan on the Chinese economy. Maybe Taiwan...
Clark Hoyt writes about "semantic minefields" journalists walk through in reporting "objectively" on "contested concepts": Stuart Gardiner of San Francisco was incensed last month after The Times reported that the.
The imperial project to conquer, occupy, and annex Haiti seems to have hit a snag: “Haiti, for all intents and purposes, became the 51st state at 4:53 p.m. Tuesday in.
I'm not sure what was more painful, watching this game in general or listening to Tim McCarver repeatedly trying and failing to pronounce "Tuiasosopo."
Jackson Browne and David Lindley, London 1976
Recently I wrote about the need for Facebook alternatives. A team of NYU computer science students may have just the thing: Why can't privacy and connectedness go hand-in-hand? That's the.
This claim has appeared in a few other places, but apparently without the official sanction: Liu Chenshan, the author of a series of articles that chronicle the five times China has faced a nuclear threat since 1949, wrote that the most serious threat came in...
This is true: Thers' Fifth Iron Law of the Internets: Twice as many people have gone on the Internet to claim they stopped being liberals because of things said at.
Shouldn't a one-trick pony have a better trick? Although if you're going to base reactionary generalizations about gender and sexuality on (sometimes apocryphal) anecdotes proving an epidemic of orgies and.