The Defense Department is getting ready to work in troubled areas before and after wars. But do guns and butter mix?
Matt Sledge
Matt Sledge is an editorial intern at the Prospect.
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COULD THIS GET UGLY?
COULD THIS GET UGLY? Ezra has been worrying about the turn towards nativism that’s been going on since last summer. He sees a “retreat to enforcement-only strategies and xenophobic local policies.” He also notes that immigrants themselves are saving more in anticipation of an even uglier backlash. I think the new census estimate out today […]
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The Idiot Weapon
TAP talks to urbanist Mike Davis about Buda’s Wagon, his new book on the history of the car bomb, how it has fundamentally changed urban life, and why “terrorism” is a useless term.
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THE THOMPSON CONSTITUENCY.
THE THOMPSON CONSTITUENCY. Yesterday our own Steven White pondered Fred Thompson‘s manliness. A month back Ezra called him a hidden “ancestor-worship[per],” which to my mind has a certain primeval, cave-mannish tinge of masculinity to it. So are folks in Tennessee bristling with anticipatory hero-worship of their own for Thompson? Are they ready to explode with […]
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CROCKER CAN’T CROCK.
CROCKER CAN’T CROCK. Everybody at TAPPED has been hammering away at this, but I’ll do it again right now: in Iraq, political considerations trump any momentary military progress (not that there is any abundance of the latter). That’s why today’s announcement that the largest Sunni bloc has left Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki‘s cabinet is grim […]
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Past Matters
How a new book about post-war Asia should inform our thinking about calling on Japan to make reparations to “comfort women.”
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DISSEMBLE HARDER.
DISSEMBLE HARDER. Wow. Perhaps highlighting right-wing media dishonesty is played out. I’d like to limit myself to one post a month. But if you thought Tom DeLay won this month’s title for most jaw-droppingly hypocritical DC establishment type — and I sure did — you were wrong. The headline from John Yoo‘s opinion piece in […]
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PROFILES IN HYPOCRISY.
PROFILES IN HYPOCRISY. The Politico brings us a new milestone in journalistic excellency: Tom DeLay criticizing Democrats for corruption: despite repeated pledges to the contrary, Democrats have made no move to require members to disclose earmark requests. Regarding the lowest of low-hanging fruit — cleaning up the earmarking process — Democrats have simply adopted the […]
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THE MEN WITHOUT NAMES.
THE MEN WITHOUT NAMES. Matthew Yglesias, in the course of mercilessly mocking the RAND Corporation’s suggestion that we market away our troubles in Iraq and Afghanistan, reminds us just how foolish using the term “jihadist” is: to a Muslim, something that’s “jihad” is by definition a good thing, so when US officials refer to adversaries […]
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TOMORROW’S REPORTS TODAY.
TOMORROW’S REPORTS TODAY. We’re all supposed to keep holding our breath until September, but now that GOP senators are getting restless, President Bush is pushing hard to either wish away the benchmarks or stretch their criteria a bit: In a White House memorandum circulated on Capitol Hill and beyond, the administration said it was “too […]