June 11, 2013 · 2 Comments
By Daniel Warner: A young, former C.I.A. technician has publicly stated that he was behind the recent revelations about the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) ...
By Daniel Warner: Frenzied diplomatic action is taking place in Geneva and around the world to prepare for an eventual conference to try to halt the continuing fighting and grave human rights, humanitarian law violations in Syria.
By Matthew Stevenson: When the cardinals sent billowing white smoke from their conclave and elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis I, little did the Catholic ...
By Daniel Warner: The recent bombings in Boston have unleashed a torrent of commentaries. While investigations are ongoing concerning the backgrounds of the suspects with no ...
By Matthew Stevenson: Although the facts from the ground in Massachusetts suggest that the bombs were set off in the spirit of anarchic violence—as explosives have ...
From Eugene Schulman: Regarding David Segal's article NYT, 14 April, 2013 article "A Missionary's Quest to Remake Motor City," I certainly wish Dan Gilbert well. But I think he is going about refurbishing Detroit in the wrong way.
By Matthew Stevenson: You have to hand it to the Israeli government for persuading President Barack Obama to sign up for its Holy Land “Stand Against ...
By Matthew Stevenson: Having Michelle Obama beamed into the Oscar awards is a subtle way of saying that the real wars...
By Matthew Stevenson: Headline in the Times: Woods and Obama, a Weekend Pairing That Can’t Help but Draw Attention ‘Speaking on behalf of the White House Correspondents ...
By Daniel Warner: Brooks’ caricature of Machiavelli allows him to pose a dilemma that has appeared regularly in Realist literature as a binary division between idealism and realistic power politics that is now couched in terms of using drones.
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