On this, I think Sheehan gets it right: "The best use of $55 million since Darren Dreifort." Slightly longer version here.
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Only, it is. I feel like with all that's going on, I'm becoming a bit like a self-absorbed teacher providing comic relief, but whatever -- it's Spring Quarter, I'm exhausted.
One of the arguments you often hear against drone warfare is that it has a "video-game-like quality" that mocks the gravity of war and makes it easier to kill. I don't personally find this argument very compelling as a rationale against drones per se, since...
I have previously written about the value of General McChrystal's July 2009 Tactical Directive in Afghanistan with respect to civilian protection. But as I discovered last weekend at the workshop,.
I learned quite a few new things about military law and the rules of war at the Cornell Bombing Workshop I attended last weekend (political scientists who study war law.
Last week's Establishment Clause standing case shows that the allegedly crucial divide between "minimalists" and "fundamentalist" conservatives on the Supreme Court is essentially meaningless, I argue in a new piece: This is, of course, not the first time that the Roberts Court has relied on...
I've neglected to respond to Marc Esiner's challenge, so I suppose I should make a couple of points. First, as Annie Lowrey points out, doing nothing would actually be a.
It's time for the annual tradition, and since Berube has already spoken it's time for me to weigh in. I was planing to do a Scocca-like graph except that my.
Several of our commenters called it: Now it’s getting a little clearer: Obama will throw his support behind the bipartisan effort in the Senate to turn the Simpson-Bowles plan into legislation (sidenote: called it). This will raise as many questions as it answers -- if...
Although reports that he is insufficiently feminist appear to have been exaggerated, Joss Whedon does appear to be insufficiently Browncoat. Or so it would seem since he recently blocked the.
Since I'm in that minority that still gets the print edition of the New York Times, I saw this exercise in grotesquely immoral self-refutation from Bill Donahue. A couple all-too-representative.