Paul du Quenoy sent another fascinating email from Beirut a few hours ago. Here it is: The situation continues to be very tense. This morning I was able to confirm that Hezbollah and affiliated Shi’ite militias are in control of most of Muslim Beirut. The pro-government Sunni militias were bested and disarmed with what is [...]
Contributor Eric Pooley on the McCain global warming news the media missed today… John McCain tried to make some news today — he pretty much came out in support of the ambitious Lieberman-Warner global warming bill — but nobody bothered to report it. Prospects have been dimming for the climate bill, which would impose a [...]
I know everyone is being nice and patient with the Clintons, and that’s as it should be. Hillary has run a fine campaign, with certain, uh, exceptions. Her policy proposals were excellent. She is, without question, one of the smartest people adorning our public life. But perhaps it wouldn’t be a bad investment for the [...]
If there is only one story you can make time for today, this one gets my vote. It is by Mark Benjamin, a former colleague of mine and crackerjack investigative reporter at Salon, and Christopher Weaver. Called “Killing by the Numbers,” it tells the tale of a group of snipers who killed an unarmed Iraqi [...]
On the occasion of John McCain’s tour of Gotham, the Democratic National Committee has a fun to read map up of all the Big Apple federal funding that McCain has opposed for being political pork. Some examples. 2006 $250,000 In The FY2006 Transportation Appropriations Bill: Williamsburg Bridge Plaza improvement, Brooklyn 2008 $282,000 In The FY2008 [...]
In the new dead-tree TIME, our colleague Michael Weisskopf explores Barack Obama’s political roots in Chicago, which is where the likely Democratic nominee learned what it felt like to lose and what it takes to win. Michael brings a special understanding to rough-and-tumble Chicago politics and its crosscurrents of ethnic identity. A lifelong White Sox [...]
I received a vivid email this morning from someone I know who finds himself in Beirut amid the escalating clashes between pro-Hezbollah and pro-government forces. Paul du Quenoy is a professor, most recently at the American University in Cairo, who is moving to teach at the American University in Beirut in the fall, conditions permitting. [...]
