A slick White House flack clarifies the war's progress on CNN: "We're still at the input stage."

Thousands of Nukes in the World: They must be abolished

The Unitary Executive Strikes Back: The PATRIOT Act and the U.S. Attorney Scandal

Kidnapped, Rescued, Then Shot: An Italian Reporter’s Iraq Ordeal

Murray Waas, one of the best investigative journalists in DC, has a new piece on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s role in derailing a Justice Department investigation of his own possible criminality. Waas notes at the National Journal: Shortly before Attorney...

Here is Slate editor Jacob Weisberg, writing in the Financial Times about the latest American Enterprise Institute shindig, where neocon bigwig Bernard Lewis received an award and made a speech defending the Crusades as the first phase of the necessary struggle...

Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), one of the few members of Congress in recent history to understand the nature of US foreign policy, has a new book, The Foreign Policy of Freedom. I haven't read it yet, but knowing Ron, it promises to be a great read. Check out Ron's latest...

What Happened to the Old Republic?: It Was Wounded in This War and Will Be Finished Off in the Next

There is Nothing More Dangerous: The Power the Military is Claiming Over the American People

"It is not civilizations that promote clashes. They occur when old-fashioned leaders look for old-fashioned ways to solve problems by rousing their people to armed confrontation." --Kenichi Ohmae, The End Of The Nation State, (New York: The Free Press 1995), p. 11....