Gigantism is the handmaiden of modernity, or so we have been led to believe. In literature, future utopias are almost always characterized by a world government, on the grounds that presumably the people of earth have evolved beyond the narrow confines of nationalism...
Updated at 7:05 p.m. EST, Dec. 10, 2008Today is the third and last day of Eid observances and reports should return to normal tomorrow. Only three Iraqis were killed and seven more were wounded today. It is likely that more attacks did occur, but many Iraqi...
Did you know that the IBM Center for the Business of Government hosts a "Presidential Transition" blog; that the Council on Foreign Relations has its own "Transition Blog: The New Administration"; and that the American University School of Communication has a...
Sunday morning, before dawn, I read in the New York Times that "the Pentagon is planning to add more than 20,000 troops to Afghanistan" within the next 18 months – "raising American force levels to about 58,000" in that country. Then I scraped...
Anticipating the ascent of President-elect Barack Obama to the Oval Office, groups of hawks, among them neoconservatives, have begun to offer public advice on just exactly what the new administration should do to deal with Iran. Accusing Iran of a covert plan to...
Updated at 7:10 p.m. EST, Dec. 9,2008Eid observances continue in Iraq so reports of violence remain low. Only four injuries were reported throughout the country. No Coalition deaths were reported. Meanwhile, the U.S. military refuses to honor an Iraqi court order to...
The idea that a nuclear war could be started by a hoax caller may seem too Bizarro Worldish, even for the post-9/11 era, but there you have it: "A hoax caller claiming to be India's foreign minister threatened Pakistan's president with war during the final hours...
If U.S. President-elect Barack Obama wants to begin dismantling Washington's nearly 50-year-old trade embargo against Cuba, it appears he will have widespread support for doing so. Not only have some major foreign policy heavyweights recently called for ending the...
Updated at 7:00 p.m. EST, Dec. 8, 2008Iraqis began Eid al-Adha observances at dawn, so there will be little news out of the country today. Instead, the focus is on Utah, where five Blackwater Worldwide guards handed themselves over to U.S. authorities. No Coalition...
The Meaning of Mumbai I am an Indian and I am against going to war with Pakistan over these attacks, but I have many reservations about your article. Your theory seems to be that the West (which, really, I suppose means America) wants to use India as a tool to expand...
