Month: March 2015

(One in a series of posts on George Fredrickson’s 2002 book, Racism: A Short History.) Why does Fredrickson spend much of the final chapter of Racism: A Short History writing about Nazi Germany, the Jim Crow South (US),...

Here’s another thing I agree with the president about. HBO’s The Wire is “one of the greatest pieces of art in the past couple of decades.” So, let’s see more action on the drug war before his...

Pretty much the only thing Rand Paul and his father have going for them is a willingness to question America’s role as a global policing power and the budgets that sustain that role. If Rand Paul isn’t going to stick...

From which divided nation hailed the Bin Laden family … indeed Yemen. So what’s new under señor Obama? US former ally and Yemeni dictator of a 33 reign, Ali Abdullah Saleh, came to an abrupt end in 2011 has now...

Here is what appears to me to be a pretty good primer on Yemen that concludes that Egypt and Saudi Arabia will make things worse by intervening and that all outside parties, including the U.S., will regret getting involved...