The Great Experiment, by Strobe Talbott, is one in a broad family of books written by former executive branch officials about their experiences with power. These books often contain some theoretical noodling, bits and pieces of biographical detail, a few mildly interesting anecdotes within a...
international law
There's a good piece by Tim Golden in today's Times about the detention center at Bagram, where conditions are even more bleak than at Guantanamo; conditions are overcrowded (the population.
There's a lot of sturm und drang about the state of abortion laws in this country -- and rightly so. Several states are trying an end run around Roe by.
It's Monday, which means it's time for another round of your [semi-]weekly Adam Liptak appreciation. This week, Liptak takes a closer look at the effect of Female Genital Mutilation on applications for political asylum in the U.S. When Alima Traore was a young girl in...
Yglesias, Justin Logan, and Tim Lee have been having a conversation about the utility of international institutions. More or less, Yglesias argues that John Bolton is a bad guy for.