A 6.1 magnitude aftershock has hit Haiti.
Charli Carpenter
Actually, maybe they weren't. So says this advance expose by Scott Horton in Harper's, based on interviews with four US servicemen who were previously told by their superior officers to.
If you are a Facebook fan or friend of Nicholas Kristof, and it happened to show up in your newsfeed (or, if you were set to "live feed" and you.
From Lily Coyle, Minneapolis, via the Star Tribune:Dear Pat Robertson, I know that you know that all press is good press, so I appreciate the shout-out. And you make God look like a big mean bully who kicks people when they are down, so I'm...
I predict this book is going to sell a whole lot of copies this year. Unlike many ongoing crises that suffer from lack of aid money, in Haiti the relief.
By way of living up to Rob's kind introduction (and answering elbruce's question in comments) I figured I'd kick off my LGM blogging career by reposting my Happy New Decade.
So I will obviously make a more appropriate inaugural post on schedule tomorrow, but first things first. Lots of people are wondering how to get money to organizations in a position to assist Haitians recover from Tuesday's devastating earthquake. Scott posted a link to links...
OK, I'm officially disappointed in my President. It was bad enough that he failed to decisively end Bush's extraordinary rendition program (claiming he'll only make sure it's no longer abused);.
Some professors in Canada are attempting to "bridge the theory/policy divide." 125 Canadian academics circulated a statement last week calling on the Canadian government to spearhead efforts to resolve the.
A couple of weeks ago at the Duck I poked fun at the debate Joseph Nye stirred up about whether IR theory is relevant to thinking about foreign policy. [He's still at it, by the way; check out this bloggingheads.] Then I got my copy...
Lots of people are still wasting their breath arguing about how effective torture may be. Now, Joshua Tucker of the Monkey Cage is ruminating about the ethical responsibility of social.
At the recent conference I attended on how Web 2.0 is altering the US political scene, the keynote speaker Richard Rogers, presented this video, which defines politics even more broadly.The.