Month: May 2013

Leaking Versus Whistleblowing

Stephen Jin-Woo Kim was an adviser to the State Department on Korean matters who, in 2009, leaked a classified report to Fox News reporter James Rosen. The report relied on sources in the North Korean government, and it revealed...

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A Den of Iniquity

In soliciting responses to the question of the degree of American responsibility for the war crimes and acts of genocide that just earned former Guatemalan strongman Efraín Ríos Montt an 80-year prison sentence, the New York...

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It’s Always the 1960’s

Thinking about this piece by Armando, I was suddenly reminded of something. During the 1990’s, when the Republicans were attacking Bill Clinton for being a non-inhaling pot-smoker and a draft-dodger and a philanderer, a...

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Go To Africa

African Safari Trip of a Lifetime Joel S. Hirschhorn The most amazing thing I learned on my first safari trip is that elephants have the most incredible, very long black eyelashes.  Second, lions could not care less about...

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