My latest at the Diplomat: Such support still has its costs. Russia now effectively owns Syrian chemical weapons, even if it never actually takes custody of them, as any further attacks will seriously embarrass Moscow. It’s fair to acknowledge, of course, that embarrassing Russia can be...
Month: September 2013
It's Friday night, I'm sick, my son is sick, I've been sick for a week, I'm tired...and I've miraculously got an hour or two to myself. Let's do something fun..
Americas South and North is always valuable for what's going on in Latin America. Evidently there are major farmers' protests taking place in Colombia, of which I was completely unaware..
There's a new organization in Washington: R Street is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit organization. It believes that freedom and free markets work better than the alternatives. R Street can fairly be described as “free market” or “libertarian.” Insofar as R Street looks to thinkers like...
It seems to me that one of the tragedies of film in the last twenty years was Robert DeNiro deciding he still wanted to work a lot but he had.
Another reason to have faith in America's young people: Just 32% of Millennials believe the U.S. is the greatest country in the world. That number progressively increases among the Gen.
It does not mean what dudebros seem to think it means, or at least pretend to think it means when they're caught out.
I understand the appeal of privilege-busting sites like Men Taking Up Too Much Space on a Train, and generally, I applaud their desire to publicly shame those who abuse their.
I'm not sure if it's quite reached the point where the question is more when the House Republicans will blow up the world economy than if, but it's getting there.
Country music will warn you about many things. Among them is to watch out for strangers with drugs. Every drug known to man, she now knew them all.
I met the charming and brilliant political theorist Marshall Berman only a couple of times, but I know many colleagues who interacted with him frequently and I never heard a.
Shorter Ted Cruz: I have a dream. I have a dream in which the Senate consists of 100 unreconstructed bigots.* We would greet Barack Obama's next State of the Union.