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Another suicide bombing in Iraq last week. Another female perpetrator. The bomb "killed a pro-American Sunni militia leader, an Iraqi police captain...
Democrats can’t be pleased with John Edwards’ confession that he had an affair with Rielle Hunter. It tarnishes the Democratic brand just as they’re gearing up for their quadrennial coming-out party, and the only thing more conspicu...
Our torture policy has deeper roots in Fox television than the Constitution. The most influential legal thinker in the development of modern American interrogation policy is not a behavioral psychologist, international lawyer, or counterinsurgenc...
Everybody had a good laugh last August when Roll Call broke the story about Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, getting arrested at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for playing footsies in a toilet stall.
All hail the Dirty Cosmopolitans! Carl, I love your analysis of the new Fourth World music and agree that it's a hot spot in pop's future. I'd add your Somali-born immigrant Toronto homeboy K'Naan to your list; his "Troubadour" made my official Top 10....
TEL AVIV, Israel—Amram Aharoni has a serious résumé, but he has the mien of a comedian. On Sunday at the Globes' Israel Business Conference, Aharoni, who teaches investment theory and finance at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center, ran through...
I know we're here to talk about the year in video games. (Thanks so much for having me along, by the way.) But, Chris, it's funny you bring up The Real World: San Francisco. I was just hitting adolescence when that show aired, and—blame it on my...