Month: February 2015

I’m never certain that hosting big security-heavy events is really a money-maker for the local community, but I have to say that I am pleased that Duncan’s urban hellhole will be hosting the 2016 Democratic National...

What are the chances that centuries from now people will pose their children for photographs atop The Great Wall of the House of Saud? Will we eat in Arab restaurants of that name?

Well, the last Minsk truce lasted about as long as the press statement announcing the deal, the all night series of meetings had its ups and downs and near announcement of failure early in the morning. I wonder what...

Clive Crook doesn’t understand the nature of The Stupid or the impossibility of engaging politically in this country without first slaying The Stupid dragon. Jon Stewart did. And does.

Reading this old profile of Maureen Dowd in New York magazine, I can sort of see how Dowd has always seen herself as a woman in a man’s world, with all that implies. And I don’t doubt that her challenges have been...