Month: August 2014

Close to 100% of my Twitter feed is about police violence against non-violent protesters in the town of Ferguson, Missouri. It’s been that way all night. They’ve also been arresting reporters, aldermen, perhaps even...

I’m inclined to agree with Nate Silver that Hillary Clinton doesn’t have an ideological problem emanating from her left. The left-wing of the party, when polled, has tended to show modestly more support for her than...

Almost the entire world is united in thinking that Nouri al-Maliki needs to step down as the Prime Minister of Iraq, but he doesn’t care. I don’t think his resignation will create some kind of magic solution to the...

In Turkey, a late crackdown on Islamist fighters | By Anthony Faiola and Souad Mekhennet | August 12 at 7:33 PM | REYHANLI, Turkey (Washington Post) – Before their blitz into Iraq earned them the title of the Middle...

Truth: By all accounts, [Michael] Brown was One Of The Good Ones. But laying all this out, explaining all the ways in which he didn’t deserve to die like a dog in the street, is in itself disgraceful. Arguing whether Brown...