The Silly Season In Politics
"Silly season" refers to late summer, when governments go on massive taxpayer-funded vacations all over the world. This year's season could produce a bumper crop of silly.
"Silly season" refers to late summer, when governments go on massive taxpayer-funded vacations all over the world. This year's season could produce a bumper crop of silly.
Harut Sassounian | Posted 06.20.2009 | World
This continuum of massacres, genocide and deportations highlights the existence of a long-term strategy implemented by successive Turkish regimes from the 1890's to more recent times.
Larry Beinhart | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics
"Chamberlain's deal with Hitler has become shorthand for naive, weak leadership." Newsweek, June 23, 2008 It was George Bush who raised the specte...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
Back in May, President Bush traveled to Israel's Knesset to deliver a speech that equated negotiations with modern terror-sponsoring states to World W...
Jamal Dajani | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics
On the surface, a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and a prisoner swap deal between Hezbollah and Israel provide a glimmer of hope for a period of tranquility between the conflicting parties.
Philip Slater | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
Refusing to communicate simply hobbles your foreign policy. We never stopped talking to the Soviet Union during the Cold War -- if we hadn't, probably none of us would be alive to have this discussion.
Jared Bernstein | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics
In Buddhism, the notion of balance is central. Over the Bush years, there has been a damaging drift toward absolutism. You're with us or against us, diplomacy is appeasement, tax cuts forever, the axis of evil, and markets always work best (and government, worst).
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
John McCain "can't win" if he's seen as "the Bush third term" -- this, from a Republican?
Sarah Posner | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
Bush, Cheney, and their band of neoconservative outlaws who led us into one catastrophic war and might lead us into another are pleased to have these faith-based cheerleaders on the sidelines.
AP | MIKE GLOVER | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
The AP reports on Obama's swift and forceful response to Bush and McCain's criticism of his foreign policy approach: Barack Obama laid into John McCa...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics