What Iraq Victory?
By Daniel Strauss - Nov 21st, 2008 at 2:33 pmWhat an odd day to celebrate victory in Iraq as Dana Perino is doing. She said “that the conditions are such now that we are…
Posts Tagged ‘international’
Youth Politics, Lebanon-style
By Jesse Singal - Nov 21st, 2008 at 11:45 amHezbollah is so hot right now:
RIYAQ, Lebanon — On a Bekaa Valley playing field gilded by late-afternoon sun, hundreds of young men wearing Boy…
Why Bill Disqualifies Hillary for Secretary of State
By Matt Zeitlin - Nov 19th, 2008 at 3:56 pmPerhaps I’m being simple minded, but it seems like Bill Clinton’s recent activities running around the world, giving paid speeches to foreign governments and corporations…
Other Countries Are Catching On
By Jesse Singal - Nov 19th, 2008 at 2:48 pmIf you or someone you know is a gay Nepali, Monday was a good day:
Kathmandu, Nov 18 (IANS) Close on the heels of an…
Ingrates*
By Jamelle Bouie - Nov 19th, 2008 at 9:31 amCallous:
insensitive; indifferent; unsympathetic: They have a callous attitude toward the sufferings of others.
Asshole:
a stupid, mean, or contemptible person.
Ladies and gentlemen, Andy…
Are We Sure Waziristan Has Much to Do With National Security?
By Jesse Singal - Nov 18th, 2008 at 11:17 amJuan Cole’s entire article on whether President-elect Obama should emphasize the hunt for Osama bin Laden is worth a read, but this paragraph, near the…
What’s Next? Trash Monsters?
By Jesse Singal - Nov 13th, 2008 at 5:10 pmFrom the Department of Disgusting Environmental Repercussions:
A noxious cocktail of soot, smog and toxic chemicals is blotting out the sun, fouling the lungs of…
Leach to G-20
By Dylan Matthews - Nov 12th, 2008 at 4:07 pmIt shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that President-elect Obama is sending Madeleine Albright to represent him at the G-20 summit. What’s more…
Pakistanis Aren’t Dancing in the Streets
By Jesse Singal - Nov 6th, 2008 at 2:44 pmVia Juan Cole, check out this Al Jazeera English look at how Pakistanis reacted to Barack Obama’s victory:
Understandably, a much more measured response.
(Cole’s…
Thoughts on the Brain Stem Controlling Fred Kagan and His Buddies
By Jesse Singal - Nov 3rd, 2008 at 5:40 pmVia Spencer Ackerman, Fred Kagan had a pretty remarkable op-ed in Friday’s Wall Street Journal that I had missed until now. Check out Spencer’s post,…
Buy The Iron Cage
By Dylan Matthews - Oct 31st, 2008 at 3:10 pmEzra has a great suggestion for how to protest the McCain campaign’s Islamophobic, anti-Arab campaign against Columbia Professor Rashid Khalidi:
Presumably, this experience has not…
Enough People Know Your Name, Dude
By Jesse Singal - Oct 29th, 2008 at 5:12 pmFrom the AP:
The Kraft family, owners of the New England Patriots, have completed a new agreement that makes them the title sponsor of the…
Powell-ing Around With Colin
By Erica Williams - Oct 16th, 2008 at 5:42 pmColin Powell had some interesting things to say about Africa’s responsibility for its own development at the THISDAY Africa Rising Music and Fashion Festival in…
Human Rights in Venezuela
By Matt Zeitlin - Oct 14th, 2008 at 5:10 pmThe New York Review of Books has an excellent article by Jose Miguel Vivanco and Daniel Wilkinson, two officials at Human Rights Watch. The opening…
Iceland’s Economic Cool
By Daniel Strauss - Oct 14th, 2008 at 11:15 amIn a recent Democracy in America post the author jokes that “Britain and Iceland [are] gearing up for a new cod war…” The saying that…
