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Month: March 2010
If Rahm Emanuel is actually deciding what sort of trial KSM et. al. should get on the basis of what he calculates would be most politically convenient for the Obama administration, then the only honor
All, In the next couple of days LGM will transition from Blogger to WordPress, a move which will include a change in URL and in RSS feed. Details forthcoming. Once we get the new site up, suggestions
What Serwer, Yglesias, and Steve all said. If the administration is really going to go with a military tribunal for KSM, it’s bad on the merits and bad politics. One could hold out some optimism based on the relative thinness of the story, but like Ackerman I’m not optimistic. …more on the merits here.
During the 15 minute commute between the building that houses the admin side of my Faculty and my office (you couldn’t draw a longer straight line on a map connecting two points on this campus,
So, according to this (rather informal) National Journal poll of right and left bloggers, 100% of left respondents think that the Democrats will benefit from passing health care legislation through re
LGM has been told that Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito are all planning on resigning tomorrow. This will give Barack Obama three more Supreme Court nominations. The fact that our impeccable source did not even have a story about why they are resigning should in no way diminish the credibility […]
Shorter Jeffrey Rosen: I am beginning to have serious questions about the existence of Santa Claus. While I can’t resist making fun of Rosen’s belated recognition of the obvious, he does g
R.I.P. I’m sure he’s enjoying the company of Gilliard and Capozzolla in the Great Blogosphere in the Sky.
I have an article at Pragati: Indian National Interest Review about the treatment of India in the 2010 QDR. The title (“Putting India on the Atlantic”) isn’t mine, but it’s an excellent summary of the piece: In an important sense, the 2010 QDR “Europeanises” India. It assumes that India will, minor friction aside, act in […]
Having been born at the tail end of the baby boom, I’m now about a quarter century older than most of my students. This creates certain pedagogical challenges, one of which is that I often don&#
Having never read this book, I don’t pretend to understand how the nominations process for Academy Awards really works. But this year’s rankings mystify the heck out of me. (Arianna Huffin