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Foreign policy goes into a coma
Doesn’t she know there’s a sequester on? [UPDATE 3 MAR 13] This is what I get for being behind in my reading, but Roger Cohen went on about the death of diplomacy in mid-January in the The New York...
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The Axis of Crazy
After the Cold War, America was supposed to enjoy a long stretch of peace and quiet, in which the remaining superpower and its North Atlantic allies would administer a liberal order of global...
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Why Noam Chomsky rocks
I contributed to this volume. Most painful research I ever had to do. You’d think that with the IRS scandal, the Benghazi scandal, the AP scandal, the NSA/Verizon scandal, the Sarin “red line in Syria”...
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What Putin really said to Snowden in Moscow
We have the secret tapes. Not sayin’ how I got them, but…here it is.
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The War Room Caption Contest — Military Division: We have a winner
Okay, with several entries (you can see them below), it was a tough pick. Of course, a few of us (including me) went for the legislative – executive jokes, but I decided to go with the one that had the...
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Repost: A personal (and not gentle) observation for Thanksgiving: Stop whining.
Although various states in the early American Union put aside a day of gratitude, it wasn’t until the middle of the U.S. Civil War that Abraham Lincoln declared a national day of Thanksgiving. Does...
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The Death of Expertise: A reader writes in
Letters, we get letters A Mr. Hal O’Brien took the time to post a note on my article on “The Death of Expertise,” and asked me to come by his website to take a look at it. I did. I know nothing about...
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Stupid College Tricks: Is it worth it?
GPA? Zero Point Zero. Today the Daily Beast ran a piece asking the agonizing question: “The Price of College Has Increased 1120 Percent Since 1978, So Is It Worth It?” The answer is: it depends. I...
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The Great White House Jeans Caper: Updated!
UPDATE, 7 MAR 14: So, after listening to endless digital caterwauling about how images don’t matter, and this is just nitpicking, and that all is well… USA Today came out with a story about how closely...
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Discussing Ukraine (and other things) on BTFD.tv
As if they didn’t learn the last time, Jack and Bob had me back on Sunday evening to talk about Ukraine and U.S. foreign policy. We’re in casual clothes for a Sunday night, and you can find it here:...
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Vladimir Putin and Game Theory
How academic theorists see Moscow. You know, I try to have some love for all my brethren in the social sciences, but sometimes the economists make it so difficult. Last week, an economist named...
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Repost: A personal (and not gentle) observation for Thanksgiving: Stop whining.
Although various states in the early American Union put aside a day of gratitude, it wasn’t until the middle of the U.S. Civil War that Abraham Lincoln declared a national day of Thanksgiving. Does...
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Edward Snowden and John Oliver
Hey girl Who thought it was a good idea to let uber-nerd Edward Snowden fall into the hands of professional wise-ass John Oliver? The boys in Moscow are losing their touch. Yesterday, I published a...
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