Enter his small office at the Nation Institute only if you don't mind experiencing a slightly vertiginous feeling. Books are everywhere – in boxes on the floor, on every surface, in, along, and perilously stacked above shelves. If you took a wrong step, you could...
The release of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program has everyone breathing a sigh of relief. According to our best intelligence, the Iranians stopped their weapons program in 2003. The liberal pundits and the more reasonable...
TAMPA - Public school districts in two Florida counties are refusing to allow members of a peace organization to counter the presence of military recruiters by talking with high school students about options other than joining the service, according to a spokesperson...
Despite the White House spin that the new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) supports its policy of increasing pressure on Iran, the estimate not only directly contradicts the George W. Bush administration's line on Iranian intentions regarding nuclear weapons, but...
Updated at 6:40 p.m. EST, Dec. 5, 2007A series of bombings in several major cities rocked Iraq today. Overall, at least 31 Iraqis were killed and 70 were wounded in the latest attacks. Most of the victims were civilians. Also, three U.S. soldiers were killed in...
Interest Group Foreign Policy Doug Bandow writes that the recent controversy surrounding the recent Armenian genocide resolution (1) did not have any "conceivable relevance" to the U.S. government and (2) modern-day Turkey has nothing to do with the genocide...
For those who have doubts about miracles, a double one occurred today. An honest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran's nuclear program has been issued, and its "Key Judgments" were made public. With redraft after redraft, it was what the Germans call eine...
Updated at 1:00 a.m. EST, Dec. 5, 2007At least 47 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 51 more were wounded. Kidnappers holding five Britons are threatening to kill one of them in 10 days unless British troops withdraw from Iraq. Also, congressional investigators from...
Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion David Gelernter Doubleday, 2007 240 pp. David Gelernter, the Yale University computer science professor known for surviving a bomb attack by the Unabomber, has written a fascinating book, Americanism: The Fourth Great...
The title of the agreement, signed by President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki in a "video conference" last week, and carefully labeled as a "non-binding" set of principles for further negotiations, was a mouthful: a "Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term...
