At WPR I revisit the military-in-autocratic-politics theme: Autocrats also take cues from events in foreign countries and build their institutions accordingly. Many observers of global politics are watching China and North Korea to see if protests and unrest currently roiling the Middle East will spread...
Author: Robert Farley
OHSA found to have anti-Irish bias! The 20-year-old Notre Dame student who was killed when the hydraulic lift he was on fell over as he filmed the football team on.
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Let's be clear; not only is Anne Marie Slaughter making less sense than Ross Douthat, she's also making less sense than Paul Wolfowitz: It is only in the context of.
Oh dear. Japan faced the likelihood of a catastrophic nuclear accident Tuesday morning, as an explosion at the most crippled of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.
Tom Ricks has been reading the digitized archives of the My Lai investigation: I've been reading My Lai materials for about four weeks now. I haven't said much about the incident on my blog. The more I learn about it, the worse the whole event...
It is unlikely that there will ever be an entertaining public reckoning within GOP punditry regarding who's responsible for the construction of Sarah Palin. As the Sage of Wasilla fades,.
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The rebel situation continues to deteriorate: On Saturday morning, pro-Qaddafi troops launched an assault on Misrata (Misurata), the city of some 600,000 due east of the capital of Tripoli, which has been in rebel hands for weeks. In the wake of government victories at Zawiya...
Goes almost without saying that the situation remains alarming: On Saturday, Japanese officials took the extraordinary step of flooding the crippled No. 1 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station,.
This sounds terrifying, and I'm glad that everyone is safe. That said, while I prefer to avoid victim-blaming, what did you expect from going to a restaurant frequented by the.