Eric Lichtblau has an article in this morning’s New York Times about a lawsuit the survivors of 9/11 victims brought against the government of Saudi Arabia. The thing has been thrown out of lower courts and the Supreme...
Read MoreWe’ve heard this stuff before, but it is good to have it confirmed by another Downing Street Memo. Bush and Blair knew very well that it was unlikely that the UN inspectors would find WMD nearly two months before they...
Read MoreJoe Klein is right. I’m trying to think of the right analogy to use that would explain the United States relationship with Iran’s reformers. It’s kind of like a father who, through the mistreatment of his...
Read MoreIt’s nice of Rick Santorum to provide us with his own idiosyncratic understanding of Twelver Shi’a Islam. Even if he’s right that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s beliefs are a little bit on the loony side...
Read MoreIt must be awkward to be a U.S. Senator who has been caught schtupping a staffer’s wife who also happened to be a paid employee. I mean, it must be awkward to go before thirty-nine other senators (almost all of whom ran...
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