Bryan Walsh’s magazine cover story this week takes another look at the Gulf of Mexico disaster, assessing the state of the spill and unpacking its causes and ramifications. Many industry insiders and people familiar with BP’s corporate practices have echoed a strikingly similar thought: that this tragedy was far more likely to befall BP than [...]
For those who have following the Pir Mohammed school saga over the past few months, here’s Captain Jeremiah Ellis’s last report from the town of Senjaray in Kandahar Province. Needless to say, the hard and dangerous work that Captain Ellis, Dog Company and all those others like them do deserves our congratulations and respect. I’ve [...]
Yesterday’s losers? Unions and progressive groups. The Nevada Republican Party. Orly Taitz. Yesterday’s winners? Bill Clinton. And Sarah Palin. Why Palin, you may ask? We answer that question in this week’s dead tree edition hitting stands tomorrow.
Just in time for Independence Day, we have Dorothy Rabinowitz pretty much calling the President of the United States unpatriotic: Those qualities to be expected in a president were never about rhetoric; Mr. Obama had proved himself a dab hand at that on the campaign trail. They were a matter of identification with the nation [...]
The United Nations Security Council has passed a new, tougher Iran sanctions regime by a vote of 12-2, with Brazil and Turkey voting against and Lebanon abstaining. This will not create enough pressure to end Iran’s nuclear recalcitrance, but it’s a significant achievement nonetheless. It send a strong message to the Iranian people that the [...]
With talk of a double-dip recession beginning to bubble, Bill Galston has a smart (as always) and appropriately humble piece about our current, ridiculously complicated economic dilemma. His conclusion seems right to me: [A]ny additional stimulus should be linked explicitly to fiscal restraint down the road. The historic fear that a truncated Keynesian reaction to [...]
