| Nov 22, 2010 | Peace / SecurityI was at Guantánamo Bay prison on Halloween. In a ghoulishly fitting coincidence, that was the same day a former child solider was convicted for war crimes for the first time since the end of World War II. Eight years and one day after Omar Khadr arrived at...
| | Rights / DemocracyPolitical pundits moan that video cameras on the campaign trail stifle candidates from saying much of anything, for fear a gaffe will ruin their careers. That happened to George Allen. At a campaign stop in 2006, the former Senator (R-VA) was caught on tape repeatedly...
| | Economy / BusinessWe have seen the future and it is grim. That glimpse of the road ahead arrived in the form of a preview of the Bowles-Simpson Commission’s report on the kinds of things government has to do (and not do) if we want to avoid economic doom. Things like giving up...
| | Peace / SecurityAre you aware that America has now been at war for nearly a decade? We’ve been fighting, bleeding, and dying in two hellacious, multi-trillion-dollar conflagrations since 2001–and our blood continues to flow, with no end in sight. Well, not our blood. Not...
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