Month: January 2012

Floods in Thailand result from rainfall amounts 3 times larger than normal for January: Heavy and persistent rain across the Malay peninsula caused flash flooding in southern provinces of Thailand on Monday and Tuesday last...

Ryan Lizza is right that Bush’s crappy presidency contributed to the weak field of candidates that we see today: “A successful Presidency can produce a new crop of future Presidential candidates for the party that...

Matt Stoller recently penned a piece that got a lot of attention, including a favorable recommendation from Glenn Greenwald. Personally, I found Stoller’s piece a little hard to follow. I had to read it more than once to...

As I noted last night, the knives have come out for Mitt Romney. What this tells me is that tonight’s result is unlikely to matter much. Romney will gain almost nothing from winning because most Republicans are nowhere...

. I just watched a discussion on al-Jazeera about reform and human rights in Bahrain. An ICI report also cleared Iran from the accusations being behind the revolt of the Shia (70%) majority in opposition to the Sunni monarchy...