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.
Is back in style! Did it ever go out? Atrios' analysis is entirely accurate: For those who may not remember, Laffer was the guy who scribbled what became known as the "Laffer curve" on napkin to demonstrate how if you cut taxes then revenues will magically go...
Exhibit A on why charter schools are a bad idea: It had been a month since one of the nation's largest charter school operators collapsed, leaving 6,000 students with no.
Via Kos, John Zogby makes a compelling argument that telephone polling, as we know it, is obsolete: Zogby points out that you don't know in which area code the cell phone.
On the other hand, this article reminds me of perhaps the most indefensible policy that most progressives either agree with or are indifferent about: the criminalization of prostitution. This isn't to say that I agree with the most simplistic libertarian defenses of decriminalization. The class makeup of...
Unlike Matt Yglesias, I can't say I'm a libertarian per se even one minute of the day. Being a Canadian, even at my most libertarianish phase of adolescence I supported socialized.
I know, I know, we're not supposed to panic. 6+ weeks to go, debates, etc. But I'm going to panic a little anyway, in response to the SUSA New Jersey, Florida.
I'm touched by Paul Wolfowitz' expression of concern for Indonesian democracy. One of his friends, it seems, is being unjustly persecuted by the Indonesian government. He relates the tale in a New York Times Op-Ed: In the interest of disclosure, I should say that I have known...
Doug Muir has an excellent post at Tacitus.org about German occupation policies in Yugoslavia between 1941 and 1944. He draws a number of interesting parallels between the German situation and the.
Jesse Taylor points out: Missile defense is not a bad idea...in the abstract. Defending oneself from missiles, after all, was the basis of a seminal videogame in the 1980s, which.