Know your enemy

Do you think this year’s Olympics is the beginning of the end for that sporting tradition? I can’t help but wonder what bizarre set of circumstances led the IOC to actually pick a totalitarian regime to host  [more...]

Making the rounds of the net and via the Washington Post, a less glowing remembrance of the Reagan administration. The transcript from a press briefing by Larry Speakes, Reagan’s press secretary, on October 15  [more...]

One year after Katrina, a description of hurricane-destroyed regions around New Orleans sounds exactly like a description of Baghdad: unreliable and intermittent electricity, telephone, and other utilities, critical  [more...]