I think the Times has mistaken a largely according to plan effort to dramatize Republican intransigence on jobs as a failure to pass a piece of legislation.
The whirlwind of events across the Arab world this year has been so fierce, so unrelenting, and so dramatic in its progression, that it’s easy to forget where and with whom it all began.
It was little more than 10 months ago that Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tunisian street vendor with little money, and fewer prospects, was robbed of one of his last possessions — his dignity. Read More
Developers at Virginia Tech have developed a system that can wipe data from Android-based smartphones based on the location of the user.
One dinner with Donald Trump and suddenly Rick Perry is all birther.
The latest reports from Turkey are warning of as many as 1,000 deaths in today’s 7.2 earthquake, centered near Van in eastern Turkey.
I hesitated to post this, but it’s the clearest video I’ve seen of the apparent capture of Qaddafi and, while disturbing to watch, it’s not as graphic as this kind of thing could be.
I remember having a similar reaction to images of Saddam Hussein after his capture: how banal the whole situation seems, how reductionist, how one man is ultimately too small and fragile to be the receptacle for all the retributive anger and violence he himself has unleashed.
Ultimately it challenges our sense of what it means to do justice. A summary execution isn’t very satisfying, but neither is execution after due process in a case like this. Like the hole he left in the ground in Lockerbie, there is just a chasm of injustice too deep to be filled. Read More
Lindsey Graham went on Fox News this morning and attempted to make a sow’s ear out of the silk purse of Obama’s recent foreign policy successes.
Hillary Clinton: GOP presidential candidates can’t have it both ways on Iraq.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) is flirting with 70 percent of the vote in early returns and is projected to win handily.