foreign policy
I thought that Jon Chait's long article on leftist disappointment with Democratic Presidents was interesting, but that it succeeded in identification of such discontent without making much effort to explain.
Worst president of the 20th century, I dunno, but the idea that Vietnam should be laid primarily at LBJ's feet is ridiculous. I think Oliver Stone's fervent belief that JFK's.
I've essentially become resigned to executive branch domination of foreign policy -- the only thing that can stop it is for Congress to actually assert its prerogatives, and there's no.
Jennifer Rubin provides the inevitable spin, arguing that the killing of OBL vindicates the Bush approach of using military force -- including an invasion of a country that had nothing.
My WPR column this week is on American Exceptionalism: Does the United States have a special responsibility to manage international affairs? This question has come to inform much of the.
I generally agree with Mark Tushnet that Robert Jackson is overrated. But I also agree that he did have a talent for good lines, and this bit from his famous-if-overrated.
It's rather disconcerting that of the two Libya op-eds in the Times this morning Ross Douthat's is easily the more sensible and persuasive. In particular, I think Slaughter lacks a.
I really like this Peter Beinart much more than the guy with the same name who used to edit The New Republic.