All I can say about the decision of USC and UCLA to abandon the Pac-12 is that it makes me very sad. Pac-10 and then Pac-12 football has, since the late 1980s, been my consumer sport of choice, and th
Looks like Russia is abandoning Snake Island: A couple things seem to have driven the decision. The availability of new anti-ship missiles transferred from NATO have made the prospect of resupplying t
Being told that there are troubles down at the old comment hole. Inquires have been made. Further: Has anyone solved the problem for themselves (faced no loading and but now seeing comments load)? Ple
In response to the January 6 hearings 1945 asked me to write a couple of pieces about the coup and its impact on foreign policy. The two are really companions; the first thinks about the phenomenon of
It’s time we started evaluating the war leadership of Volodymyr Zelensky, who in a few short years has been catapulted from minor regional celebrity to world historical figure. I expect that sev
Bhaskar Sunkara is, in practical terms, the nation’s most effective defender of 21st century neoliberalism. That harsh repression and pervasive censorship characterized life in the East is a giv
Nice short piece on the Port Chicago Mutiny: On July 17, 1944, two ships, S.S. Quinault Victory and S.S. E.A. Bryan were docked on the same pier when an explosion obliterated them both, along with 4,6
Yesterday I had the opportunity to sit down with Matthew Gabriele, co-author of the Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe. Matt and I spoke about the essential “weirdness” of the M