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Clowns

A drama from Fox News. The scene: the Pepsi Center, site of the Democratic National Convention, last Sunday afternoon. Fox News Reporter Griff Jenkins: (Wading into crowd of protestors) What’s…

by , on August 26, 2008
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High Noon for the Republican Party

Why the G.O.P. must die

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NOT ME! A timeline of finger-pointing in Iraq

The New York Times today features a long report in which U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker constructs a timeline with an important lesson for the world: the failure of…

by , on April 3, 2008
[Commentary]

A Christmas Proposal

Few human activities are more popular than war, and yet the negative consequences of actual battle, with its inevitable atrocities, often are very high. Therefore when the philosopher William James…

by , on December 22, 2007
[Commentary]

Notes on “The Black Box”

For readers interested in a little background on this month’s cover story: I first began to develop an interest in the oil of Iraq in 2003. It was the war…

by , on December 6, 2007
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The Black Box

Inside Iraq’s Oil Machine

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The Ongoing Medicalization of Torture

On July 20, George Bush signed an executive order that clarified certain aspects of what his administration has come to call “enhanced interrogation techniques.” It was an extraordinarily detailed document…

by , on August 1, 2007