While in the midst of pledge drive, I nearly missed one of the few sources of joy in this business: Watching Ali Gharib and Eli Clifton smoke out suit wearing think tankers who would clearly be more comfortable wearing sheets. In a two part series at Think Progress,...

Via Marc Lynch, "a useful addition to the growing body of analysis and argument" in opposition to any direct intervention in Syria from Prof. Eva Bellin and Prof. Peter Krause in the Middle East Brief from Brandeis University (PDF). Here's their takedown of why a...

Scott Shane from the New York Times has issued a clarification on their blog regarding last week's story about President Obama's role in deciding who to add to his ever-growing "kill list." The clarifications are two-fold, mostly lashing other sites that took the...

The great Robert Higgs lists Axioms of Political Geometry. My two favorites: The shortest distance between a free society and a totalitarian society passes through war. The whole of society is greater than the part that government officials can comprehend, and much...

According to Bonnie S. Glaser at the Center for Strategic International Studies (no relation), next year "could see a shift in Chinese foreign policy based on the new leadership’s judgment that it must respond to a U.S. strategy that seeks to prevent China’s...

At this point in the international negotiations with Iran, people seem to be reading into it whatever is beneficial for their own arguments. They're either bound for resolution in the third round in Moscow later this month, or they're doomed to failure because, hey,...

Nikolas Kozloff writing at al Jazeera had recently brought to light the Obama administration's construction of a new military base in Argentina. Local authorities and official U.S. explanations insist the "Resistencia" base is for civil and humanitarian purposes...