L 'affaire Plame is about breaking the law, about arrogance, about the ordinary viciousness that suffuses the corridors of power – but its real significance is overlooked in the frenzy to find the perpetrator and tie him or her to the White House. The problem...
Unmasking the Ugly ‘Anti-American’
Strong critics of U.S. foreign policy often encounter charges of "anti-Americanism." Even though vast numbers of people in the United States disagree with Washington's assumptions and military actions, some pundits can't resist grabbing onto a timeworn...
The Sharks Are Circling in Washington
To say that there's blood in the water and the sharks are circling around the Bush administration's Iraq policy would be understatement at this point. It's more like a blood bank that's been dropped into the water, the sharks have taken the first bites, and Amazonian...
India, Pakistan Spar Under a Lengthening Nuclear Shadow
This past April 18, India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee raised many hopes when he offered Pakistan "the hand of friendship" from a public rally at Srinagar, the capital of Indian Kashmir. The greatest of these hopes was that South Asia's long, dark night of...
Open Warfare: Bush vs the Intelligence Community
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THE NEO-JACOBINS
Surely it isn't modesty that makes the neocons shy away from the spotlight. Yet how else can we explain Joshua Muravchik's shock at the sudden discovery that entering the term "neoconservative" into Lexis-Nexis will cause an aborted search because "the number of...