by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos | Jan 28, 2010 | News
The number of words that President Obama expended on the war in Afghanistan during the much anticipated State of the Union address last night:Â exactly 92. Considering that the President’s entire speech was 7,308 words, you could have missed his fleeting...
by Daniel Luban | Dec 30, 2009 | News
Wednesday’s Washington Post contains a rundown of the Obama administration’s current thinking on Iran sanctions. The bottom line: administration officials are increasingly open to sanctions, but want to find ways to target the Revolutionary Guard and other...
by Matt Barganier | Nov 29, 2009 | Andrew Sullivan, Europe, Islam, Libertarianism, News, Switzerland
Well, the Swiss – or, more accurately, a majority of voters in democratic Switzerland – have gone and done something wrong and dumb, approving a referendum that bans the construction of minarets. Libertarian demerits are certainly in order. But one very wrong,...
by Jeremy Sapienza | Nov 24, 2009 | News
I wish it weren’t always necessary to lay out the recent history of Somalia every time it comes up. But it seems with every current event — like US bombings and piracy — Americans are starting with a fresh mental slate. And so it is with the recent...
by Daniel Luban | Nov 13, 2009 | News
The campaign against the National Iranian-American Council and its president, Trita Parsi, intensified today with the publication of a long hit piece in the Washington Times by neoconservative journalist Eli Lake. The piece’s unusual length appears to be an attempt...
