Author: BooMan

Before there was WikiLeaks, there was The Smoking Gun, which was founded in 1997 to bring us “exclusive documents–cool, confidential, quirky–that can’t be found elsewhere on the Web…using material...

I guess there’s a theory that things may have gone better in Afghanistan if the coalition of troops that invaded the country in 2001 hadn’t become distracted and diluted by the decision to invade Iraq. We’ll...

I woke up this morning to see that Donald Trump had tweeted again, but this time his message was unobjectionable. I have tremendous respect for women and the many roles they serve that are vital to the fabric of our society and...

Noah Feldman makes many points worth considering, but he’s wrong in the overall point he’s trying to make. Most glaringly, the headline of his piece is incorrect, as Trump’s accusations that President Obama...

These are admittedly confusing times to be on the left. For example, it’s disorienting to discover that you agree with Maine’s Republican Governor Paul LePage about anything, but it’s hard to disagree with his...