Month: August 2014

Watch the “execution” I know, we can’t judge the situation and there needs to be a grand jury and a selfie investigation by St. Louis County police … nevertheless, judge yourselves: Police identified the...

Isn’t it amazing that sound public policy works a lot better to reduce teenage pregnancy than lecturing girls about keeping their virginity? Giving teenaged girls access to long-term reversible contraceptives is twenty...

Once upon a time, Vice President Richard Cheney advocated going to war with Iran in order to stop Iran’s nuclear program, even to the extent of authorizing the first use of nuclear weapons by any government since the the...

I have to put the Washington Monthly online, so I won’t be able to do much blogging over the next couple of days. Try not to shoot each other in the face while I’m busy.

I am feeling very sad for the families of American journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley. In the grand scheme of things, one life lost to ISIS is a small thing. This is an organization that wipes out whole communities in...