Security Ops, Bombers Leave 111 Dead, 108 Wounded Across Iraq
43 Killed, 62 Wounded As Iraq Prepares to Assault Falluja
Walter Jones Repels a War Party Attack
The GOP Beltway establishment is celebrating the victory of Thom Tillis, Speaker of the North Carolina House, over his Tea Party and Evangelical rivals in Tuesday's primary for the U.S. Senate. But the story ended less happily for the Beltway elite in the Tar Heel...
Yugoslavia’s Lessons Learned
Spanish philosopher George Santayana famously wrote that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." But what of those who can? Over and over, in the past few weeks, Yugoslavia has been on the lips – and minds – of Russians and...
The War Party Makes a Comeback
The War Party is making a comeback. After laying low in the wake of the disastrous invasion and occupation in Iraq, and the complete failure of our efforts to subdue Afghanistan, the coalition of forces that made these strategic catastrophes possible has returned –...
Bombers Return to Baghdad; 78 Killed, 100 Wounded
The Fight for Domestic News Drones
On Tuesday, more than a dozen notable news organizations including The New York Times Company, Scipps Media, Hearst, and the National Press Club filed a brief with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) over the ban on commercial, news-gathering, and small...
Navigating Syria: The Impossible, Indispensable Mission
I unfriended another Facebook friend this week. It may seem to be a trivial matter, but for me, it is not. The reason behind my action was Syria. As in Egypt, Syria has instigated many social media breakups with people whom, until then, were regarded with a degree of...
The Ukrainian Muddle: Lies, Manipulation, and Silence
Poor Katrina van den Heuvel and husband Stephen Cohen, she the editor of The Nation and he a scholar of Russian history and author of a definitive biography of Nikolai Bukharin, executed during Stalin’s mad blood purges, and more recently Soviet Fates and Lost...