The music video for Childish Gambino’s chart topping song “This Is America” won three MTV Video Music Awards this past week, including Best Direction, Best Choreography, and Best Video With
Hobby Lobby, the arts and crafts store run by conservative, Evangelical Christians has been caught smuggling nearly 5,500 ancient artifacts from the Middle East according to a civil complaint filed by
It’s always sad when the George Washington of a nation dies…
If we apply the brilliance of Donald Rumsfeld to Baltimore, it’s clear that the violence is an acceptable first step toward the people of that city finally becoming free of police oppression. An
There is not a single person I want to hear less from on Iraq than Tony Blair.
Reihan Salam argues that the U.S. should never have withdrawn its troops from Iraq. The next few days (weeks?) are going to be insane. Can we make a running list of writers to never take seriously aga
Hugh Gusterson has an excellent article on the collapse of the Iraqi university system from 1991 on: While American troops guarded the Ministries of Oil and the Interior but ignored cultural heritage
This week’s WPR column considers the rhetoric of war against Iran: The case for attacking Iran relies overwhelmingly on the concept of uncertainty. We don’t know if the Iranians want to build