Senator Ted Kennedy’s death Tuesday night has deprived the nation of one of the most insightful and committed progressive politicians the country had. Kennedy all […]

The thing that concerns me most about the investigation of Central Intelligence Agency interrogators is that US law served as such a poor guide to […]

Al-Zaman reports in Arabic that five major Shiite fundamentalist parties along with some other personalities and small parties have announced the National Iraqi Alliance, the […]

Wissam Ali Kadhem Ibrahim was put on television in Iraq confessing his role in last Wednesday’s bombings. The former Baathist official described an operation that […]

Adam L. Silverman writes in a guest op-ed for IC The recent increase in political violence in Iraq has once again led to renewed discussions […]

Obama, unlike Bush: 1. Has no plans to invade any new oil countries.2. Knows who president of Pakistan is3. Knows how to safely consume pretzels4. […]

The Financial Times argues that the final judgment on how upright the Afghan elections were matters enormously to the Obama administration. If the US public […]

It was worse. Back in the bad old days of Bush’s corrupt gang, we on the left were pilloried for suggesting that the administration was […]

Violence that left some 50 dead, and a relatively low turnout in some provinces marred Afghanistan’s presidential election on Thursday. McClatchy reports that the largest […]