The EU agreement reached this morning is by no means a sure deal—nor is it certain it will fix the debt crisis.
America and the World
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Climate Control
As their ranks diminish, global warming skeptics target scientists
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Whistleblowers
Do the higher-ups ever take responsibility for what their subordinates do?
Posted inAmerica and the World
Looking at Gadhadi
After Osama bin Laden was killed, I wrote a somewhat contrarian piece arguing that the government should release a photo of his body. I then went on NPR’s On the Media to talk about it, alongside the New Yorker‘s Philip Gourevitch, who was rather contemptuous of my position (audio here, transcript here), but I stuck […]
Posted inBooks
A Jew of No Religion
An Israeli novelist gets a legal writ of divorce between Jewish ethnicity and religion.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The Glorious Invasion
Ten years ago, the Afghanistan War looked like a swift and easy triumph for democracy. But even in the early days there were portents of the catastrophe to come.
Posted inEconomic Policy
History’s Missed Moment
Why did the greatest failure of laissez-faire capitalism since the Great Depression lead to a turn to the right rather than the left in both Europe and the U.S.?
Posted inAmerica and the World
The Global Patriot Act
From the end of World War II to the start of the “global war on terror,” international law provided crucial support for the promotion of human rights around the world. But the response to the September 11 attacks has had a profound and little-appreciated impact on international law with devastating global consequences for human rights, […]
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Shoulda Had a Pre-Nup
Bailouts and immigration strain European Union.
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Governing Beyond His Means
Rep. Paul Ryan’s foreign policy ideas are sensible, but his budget would make implementing them impossible.
