One thing to add to the fact that foreign aid is one of the tiny number of specific areas in which cuts to government spending are actually popular is that (unless public awareness of federal spending levels has increased to implausible levels since 1995) it's...
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I am, most likely, the only person on earth currently taking a break from the serious work of reading and writing about comics by reading a novel whose cover declares.
...some how or other the most innovative and compelling show in the history of television is only the sixth best show of the past decade. (And they wonder why print's.
Nauru has just become the first country to recognize Kosovo, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia. Unfortunately, Nauru switched its diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to the PRC in 2002, meaning that it misses out on the much coveted "golden sombrero" of breakaway recognition. It turns out that...
Yglesias is more impressed than I by Pat Lang's discussion of successful and failed counter-insurgency campaigns. In particular, I think he misconstrues the objectives of many of the major counter-insurgency.
. . . does Harry Reid not understand?
Today was graduation day at Patterson. For lack of anything better to post, below is the graduation keynote that I delivered to the Spring 2009 graduates:Congratulations to the graduating class, and thank you for asking me to speak. I’m not going to make any claims...
...but in the series of photographs of Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and his interns that shani-o linked to this afternoon, we have:Steele and a white guySteele and a.
As demonstrated by his Twitter feed:Doh! MEDIAMUTTERS falls into trap while defending fisting-happy Obama 'Safe Schools Czar': http://tinyurl.com/ycotzex @mmfa about 5 hours ago from web EARACHE BOEHLERT? You don't find.
Al Kamen, via Jason Sigger:This month marks the 10th anniversary of the Clinton administration's cavalier handover of the Panama Canal -- leaving an alleged front for the Chinese Red Army in control of the strategic passage -- despite the strong misgivings of some top foreign...
Tom Ricks:As a British naval historian friend I know once noted, the time when the British government could have helped -- and perhaps stopped the war -- was back in.
Stephen Walt:Americans have come to believe that spending government revenues on U.S. citizens here at home is usually a bad thing and should be viewed wth suspicion, but spending billions.