In Commonweal, Andrew Bacevich asks, essentially, “why not Mexico instead of Afghanistan?” A thought-provoking companion piece to David Loyn’s In Afghanistan: 200 Years of British, Russian, and American Occupation.
In my not-so-humble and entirely un-objective opinion, The Texas Tribune opened with one helluva week. These are stories you simply will not see anywhere else. Consider, in no particular order:
Emily Ramshaw on the (over)use of passive restraints...
In case you’ve had the good fortune to spend the Great Recession on a desert island, here’s a snippet from the Columbia Journalism Review that summarizes the media landscape to which you have returned:
American journalism is at a transformational...
In a supposed debate between the old and the new, at least the following was concluded:
Both sides agreed that good journalism, foreign reporting and freedom of the press should be preserved, but none could provide a way to fund the future of the...