Here's the lede of a story in the New York Times today: The Obama administration on Friday gave up on its plan to try the Sept. 11 plotters in …
Read moreAn excellent obituary of the "people's historian" can be found here , and a very recent interview with Zinn about his documentary "…
Read moreWe all know that if an earthquake of the same magnitude that hit Haiti struck a developed Western country, the death toll, while possibly significant…
Read moreI've read a lot about Senator Harry Reid's remarks over the past days, except that he might have been right. That was redressed today in a po…
Read moreI don't know about you, but I am so pleased to have this opportunity to learn so much about Yemen in the past days. Here's Christiane Amanpou…
Read moreWhen a suicide bomber blew up seven C.I.A. agents at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Afghanistan last week, including the base chief, I waited for…
Read moreThe year is not starting off well. The Obama administration, having made the fatal mistake of escalating troop presence in Afghanistan, is now going …
Read moreI'm back in Paris after a family holiday in Rome and Pompei between Christmas and New Year's Eve (we celebrated the New Year in the taxi comi…
Read moreThe slow blogging has been very slow lately, due to a series of deadlines, voyages, and distractions, not to mention a rethink about what this blog s…
Read moreMy good friend Alice Greenfield McGrath died yesterday, age 92. A fighter against injustice all her life, she is probably best known as the model for…
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