We've had a lot of people asking why we would run this article from the New York Times on Somalia. Well, we're not ones to crush news, and quotes like this: Omar Hussein Ahmed, an olive oil exporter in Mogadishu, the capital, said he and a group of fellow traders...

Working for the Clampdown: Congress gives president new martial law powers

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Occupying Afghanistan Never Works: Not even when America does it

I have noted the growing convergence of left and right on various issues, from the war in Iraq to the fight in defense of civil liberties on the home front, and here’s another proposition that is a part of this developing left-right consensus: the rise of Jonah...

I'll grant that he makes a couple of reasonable nano-points along the way, but Christopher Hitchens' latest essay is mostly a chilling reminder of his inner rot. Quoth Commissar Chris of the bloodbath in Blacksburg: The grisly events at Virginia Tech involved no...

Nearly every day there's a story about Bush or some other official (not to mention the embarrassingly ridiculous John McCain) claiming sectarian violence is dropping, Baghdad is safer, Iraq is "making progress." But periodically throughout the war, usually when there...

Congress amended the Insurrection Act last September to make it far easier for the president to declare martial law. I go into the cheery details in a piece in the April 23 issue of the American Conservative: How many pipe bombs might it take to end American...

Iraq’s Catastrophic Success: And who’s next on the hit list

Jonathan Schwarz has been on a roll lately. Check him out.