Robert Kaplan says all manner of silly things, but because he says them in important places, we're supposed to listen: He or she who sits in Delhi with his back to Muslim Central Asia must still worry about unrest up on the plateaus to the northwest....
I went on the Alyona Show yesterday to discuss a book I haven't read: To elaborate a bit, I think that it's correct to say that the President could have.
A commenter emailed and requested I write something about Kenneth Marcus's article on anti-Semitism at UCI. It opens: During the first years of the 21st century, the virus of anti-Semitism.
"Cyber-warfare" used to refer to damaging or stealing data and the networks on which they rely. Now, cyber-weapons can destroy physical infrastructure as well. As reported in CSMonitor: Cyber security experts say they have identified the world's first known cyber super weapon designed specifically to destroy...
To state the obvious, this non-action is awful both on the merits (making the permanent extension of Bush's upper-class tax cuts more likely) and as politics (name me the district.
The odds that I will agree with David Bernstein over Dahlia Lithwick are...not good, but in this case Bernstein is right. I've been trying to condense the paper I presented.
Krugman makes a good case. And, yes, the idea that the "messaging" from someone no non-professional pays any attention to is more important than their ability to do the job is absurd, even in narrow political terms. Even if this wasn't the consistent finding of political...
Jon Chait points out that for a generation now GOP proposals for Doing Something About Big Government have followed a predictable not to say neurotic pattern: Republicans keep running on.
"Comedian" Tim Slagle wrote a post slagging Morrissey for calling the Chinese a "subspecies" for "their" treatment of animals. I'm with Slagle on the condemnation, though I'm not as surprised.
I think an ad campaign like this is just what the United Nations needs to get the US to pay its dues. Or to fulfill pledges to fund the Millennium Development Goals. Or to galvanize public support for a global Tobin tax.
It never ends.
In convenient video form: Hyde: The Status Quo Is Not OK from Center for Reproductive Rights on Vimeo.