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Forgive, dear reader, a half-baked historical analogy -- or rather, suggestion of long continuity in American executives' propensity to ...

Clive Crook has always struck me as tone-deaf on American politics, if sometimes acute on policy.  Today, though, he brought me up short an...

As the Democrats stare at disaster, is Stephen J. Rose finally getting some traction? An economist former Clinton Administration official,...

Bill Clinton is not faking here (to John F. Harris and James Hohmann of Politico, 9/23/10) : Clinton finished his political analysis on a ...

Imagine that you're either a nonnative English speaker or a person inclined to visualize well-worn metaphors, and you come upon this mon...

or wishful thinking?  Ever since I read last night that Senate democrats have given up on holding a pre-election vote on extending the Bus...

Much chatter today about Bob Woodward's portrayal in his forthcoming Obama's Wars of division and debate in Obama's foreign pol...

Every now and then, a body can catch a quick chain of thought right as it wraps up -- and review the sequence with a bit more confidence tha...

Haaretz's Bradley Burston offers up a stunning Yom Kippur confession that is both personal and collective, as befits the holiday. Here ...

William James' 1906 essay The Moral Equivalent of War (which James Fallows recently induced me to read ) derives its strength in lar...

On the occasion of the Jewish holidays, brooding over whether I would fast on Yom Kippur (I have for most of my adult life but not longer se...

As I mentally sketched a quick blog post, I envisioned adding a link at bottom to one of my prior posts, and flailed briefly trying to remem...

Even casual readers of news from China (I'm one) are familiar with the difficulty the central government experiences in trying to enforc...

Yes, ground zero is a sacred place; my wife’s ashes are in that ground. But to deny the opportunity to worship lawfully near there is denyin...

Confirmation bias, thy name is Thomas Friedman . Leave it to Friedman to decide, as the U.S. struggles out of the steepest recession in 70...

Jeffrey Goldberg affects bemusement as Fidel Castro tries to walk back his startling statement to Goldberg that "the Cuban model doesn...

It may be late in the day, but I think Obama's working toward his own 'stay the course': Q    Thank you, Mr. President.  You ...

Today in Clevelan d, Obama started to draw on a fund of latent credibility he may yet prove to have built up with all that infuriating bipar...

Last week, in an open letter to Feisal Abdul Rauf, TNR's Yossi Klein Halevi proposed the following -- granting undue authority, in my op...

Considering that hatred of Israel is a central pillar of the Iranian regime's ideology (along with crocodile tears on behalf of the Pale...