Do museums mark the acme of power?

13 years ago

My wife and I spent half the day at the The National Museum of the Marine Corps not far from…

Disintegration is hard to stop

13 years ago

Susan Yackee at Voice of America asked a few questions today about Syria.  Here are my replies, which VoA published…

Sick and Sikh are both American

13 years ago

I didn't even know until yesterday that white supremacist heavy metal rock bands existed.  I was only slightly more aware…

This week’s peace picks

13 years ago

Africa and India take the spotlight in this relatively quiet week: 1. Assessing Governance in Rwanda,  10:00am-11:30am, Tuesday, August 7…

The worst of all possible worlds

13 years ago

It is getting hard to keep score, though this graphic from Al Jazeera English may help.  Today's big news is…

Circling the square

13 years ago

Joyce Karam of Al Hayat yesterday asked me some interesting questions about Iraq, Iran, Syria and the United States.  Here…

Quicker is better, but use the delay well

13 years ago

"Impractical, unenforceable and unwise" are the labels I gave yesterday to Anne-Marie Slaughter's proposal for highly conditional military aid to…

Serbia squeezed

13 years ago

Milan Marinković writes again from Nis: The period of economic hardship Serbia is entering will afford the country's new government,…

Impractical, unenforceable and unwise

13 years ago

A Free Syrian Army (FSA) leader (the Guardian says he is Mustafa al-Sheikh, identified as head of the FSA supreme…

What Romney forgot in Poland

13 years ago

The American press, always anxious to cover itself, is boiling over about the rudeness of a Mitt Romney press aide…