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 his hands and looks beseechingly upward]. Wouldn't it be great if the reality was that they...
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.
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 even a decent online recap, with no success as of yet. Choose your news here. At...
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.
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 creating an exponential interaction of hackdom. Well, its filmic equivalent is coming to a theatre near you....
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.
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 anywhere near the levels reached in Vietnam. On just about every other front, however, we've made...
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.