Later this year, state parties will get together to revisit the Statute for the International Criminal Court. Definitely on the agenda is clarifying the crime of aggression, which was left hanging in 1998 in order to bring discussions to a close. But governments also have...
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Apparently Al-Majid's execution by gallows was more "civilized" than that of Saddam Hussein three years ago. No one called him any names.
Just logged on and checked out the comments thread on this post. Good gods, people. Most of you seem to think I equated Olbermann's substantive views with those of Beck or Limbaugh, missing my point entirely. The others want to argue that there is a...
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cSpecial Comment - Keith Olbermann's Name-Callingwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care CrisisHear, hear. About time the fake news outlets took.
Over the break, Foreign Affairs posted my picks on which gender literature the foreign policy community should take seriously. Here's how the piece begins: Feminists have long argued that it.
A 6.1 magnitude aftershock has hit Haiti.
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.