Apparently we've decided that Cuba doesn't have an offensive bio-weapon program. Considering that they've been sitting off the coast of Florida for forty-three years and haven't attacked yet, I'm not convinced that Cuba should have been on our list of concern, anyway. Via Crooked Timber, Michael Shifter argues...
Laura Rozen excerpts a Salon interview with Sy Hersh: Jacoby: Is there someone who is the Henry Kissinger in this administration? Hersh: Oh, believe me, I pray for one [clasps.
Fred Kaplan has a characteristically excellent column about the technical difficulties presented by the current missile defense system. For those who haven't had the chance, read Kaplan's Wizards of Armageddon. It's a.
I had no idea about this, which I find fascinating. If I'm ever called upon to teach American political development/history and the 1896 election comes up, you can bet this'll be in my lecture. UPDATE: Erik Loomis has some interesting observations on 1896 at Alterdestiny.
The fine people at Fox News were kind enough to broadcast Kerry's Iraq speech at NYU this morning, live and uninterupted. I've been surfing around looking for a transcript, or.
Much as I hate to admit it, I think the Florida Supreme Court was correct in its 6-1 ruling to allow Ralph Nader on the ballot. When laws are ambiguous, it.
Lindsay Beyerstein has a good review of Thomas Frank's new book. I do think, however, that her punchline underemphasizes the most important part of Frank's argument: Short answer: the habit of subsuming economics to "culture." This tendency is nearly universal in America. David Brooks has made...
You're all familiar with the classic hack circle-jerk, such as Glenn Reynolds fulsomely praising the wit and widsom displayed by Mickey Kaus on The Dennis Miller Show Starring Rupert Pupkin, thus.
First, arguing about which of the two stupidest foreign policy maneuvers of the last forty years is stupider is, well, a stupid thing to do. But, if I'm going to.
Borrowing again from that young Harvard punk, I have to confess to many of the same hawkish sentiments. This isn't the first time that we've discussed how judging a position by the worst arguments made in its favor is unfair, but I think that the tendency deserves...
Matt Yglesias has some interesting observations regarding parallels between Vietnam and Iraq: The good news is that it's hard to see US casualties -- and especially US fatalities -- getting.
Each and every day during my morning electronic stroll, I check in at icasualties.org, a service that compiles its data from DoD reports, to see how many Americans the adventure in.