

Gaddafi and the ICC: Meaningless, Unfair, or Both?
The selective application of international law is here to stay.
The selective application of international law is here to stay.
Last night, the President basically announced that America’s longest war had entered it’s end game.
Are you better off than you were three years ago? 44% of Americans say no.
David Rittgers, a legal policy analyst at the Cato Institute who served three tours in Afghanistan as a special forces officer, laments the militarization of police in America.
The Anthony Weiner reveals once again the odd American obsession with the intersection of sex and politics.
While President Obama has had some amusing gaffes on his trip to London, including getting the year wrong in the guest book and an awkward toast to the Queen, his speech to Parliament today hit all the right notes.
Comparing Obama to Carter on foreign policy (especially in terms of electoral politics) doesn’t make sense.
Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has come to regret the direction he took the network after the 2008 election.
President Obama doubled down in his speech before this year’s AIPAC conference. Why he did so only he understands.
Mitch Daniels, the candidate of George Will and a host of mainstream Republicans hoping for something better in 2012, has announced he will not be running for president in 2012.
Once again, an American President thinks he can bring peace to the Middle East.
President Obama’s approval numbers shot up after Osama bin Laden was killed two weeks ago. They’ve already settled back to where they were
Matt Eckel’s takeaway from my Atlantic piece on How Perpetual War Became U.S. Ideology is that we need a peer competitor.
The 60 day deadline for Presidential discretion under the War Powers Act will expire next week. Congress won’t do anything about it.
The state of Arizona is seeking donations for construction of the border fence.
Sunday’s announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden was the latest example of how Twitter has become the go-to source for “Breaking News.”
Events in Syria, and the world’s response to them, are revealing the moral bankruptcy of the justification for the war in Libya.
President Obama’s signing statement on the allocation of funds to Presidential “czars” sets a potentially dangerous Constitutional precedent.
Defense Secretary Gates hinted this week that the U.S. would stay in Iraq if the Iraqis wanted. It doesn’t seem like they do.
President Obama says he acted in Libya to avert an imminent genocide, but there’s no evidence that any such thing was about to occur.
President Obama has pledged no slaughter and no ground troops for Libya. He may well be forced to pick one.
The “Obama Doctrine,” such as it is, seems to boil down to moral self-certainty combined with a glaring ignorance of reality. That’s a dangerous combination.
Amnesty International is drawing attention to capital punishment in the United States, with bad math and a credulous media on its side.
Former Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton Warren Christopher has died
There are many opportunities to go to war. Here’s a guide for choosing between them.
Warren Christopher, Bill Clinton’s first Secretary of State, has died at 85.
Who wants that job? (And is willing to work that hard to get it?)
While there are doubtless flaws with the journalistic values and culture of the New Media, we too often contrast today with a Golden Age of Media that never existed.