Posts Tagged ‘international’
Only in Scandinavia…
By Emily Rutherford - Jan 29th, 2009 at 2:53 pmIceland is set to have the world’s first openly gay head of government. MP Johanna Sigurdardottir will step forward to fill the void of power…
Moving the Center
By Dylan Matthews - Jan 28th, 2009 at 10:40 amIt’s good to know that the Gaza invasion has succeeded in “educating” the Palestinians into a pro-Israel posture:
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas vowed on Tuesday…
Bad Binaries
By Matt Zeitlin - Jan 27th, 2009 at 2:23 pmI’m a bit perturbed by Jeffrey Goldberg’s trumpeting of poll results showing that “Sixty percent of Americans in the nationwide survey said they were sympathetic…
Sarkozy Values Newspapers, and So Should We
By Daniel Strauss - Jan 23rd, 2009 at 5:08 pmFrance’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has always been a little too showy for my tastes, and here he may just be trying to hog the spotlight…
President Obama will Repeal the Global Gag Rule
By Loryn Wilson - Jan 23rd, 2009 at 1:15 pmAccording to The Wall Street Journal, President Obama will repeal the so-called global gag rule, which outlawed U.S. funding from going to NGOs that perform…
France’s Greatest Intellectual
By Matt Zeitlin - Jan 15th, 2009 at 3:55 pmThe Telegraph has a cute little profile of Esther Duflo, the economist at MIT who is widely credited with launching and sustaining the empirical revolution…
Israel’s Brutal Campaign
By Austin Thompson - Jan 15th, 2009 at 3:20 pmThe Israeli military bombed the United Nations headquarters in the Gaza Strip earlier today, destroying thousands of pounds of food and humanitarian supplies. The attack…
Israel Bans Arab Parties
By Dylan Matthews - Jan 12th, 2009 at 2:48 pmThis is just horrifying:
The Central Elections Committee on Monday banned Arab political parties from running in next month’s parliamentary elections, drawing accusations of racism…
Because the Congo Was Just Too Stable Before…
By Dylan Matthews - Jan 12th, 2009 at 12:39 pmYou know what the world really needs right now? More broken peace processes. Take it away, Democratic Republic of the Congo:
General Laurent Nkunda, the…
English-speakers Better At Making English Music; More at 11
By Dylan Matthews - Jan 9th, 2009 at 3:48 pmI disagree frequently with Steven Walt on issues of international relations. But I’ll be damned if I don’t disagree more about music:
I can’t think…
Sexually Repressed Societies Are Unsustainable
By Emily Rutherford - Jan 9th, 2009 at 2:44 pmVia Telmah Parsa at The Daily Beast, the latest out of Iran is evidence of the impossibility of sustaining a culture in which sexual relations…
Even Orange???
By Jesse Singal - Jan 9th, 2009 at 11:46 amI can’t vouch for it, but I think the fact that I want this photo to be real makes me a bad person:
(Since this…
Well, It’s a Start…
By Jesse Singal - Jan 6th, 2009 at 5:51 pmObama on Gaza: “The loss of civilian life in Gaza and in Israel is a source of deep concern to me, and after January 20th…
The Poverty of Realism
By Dylan Matthews - Jan 5th, 2009 at 1:38 pmI’m considerably less heartened by the rise of realism in mainstream punditry–represented most recently by Foreign Policy giving Steve Walt a blog–than Matt Yglesias is:…
