Month: February 2013

I will be following Kerry’s travels through Europe and the Middle-East. Will he avoid the echo-chamber of the US State Dep’t and the status-quo of leaders Western Atlantic Alliance by creating his own foreign policy?...

Things you can learn on the Internet: Antonin Gregory Scalia is the only child of Salvadore Eugene and Catherine Panaro Scalia. His father emigrated from Sicily as a teenager and came through Ellis Island. That’s cool. One...

Daniel Day-Lewis is so brilliant in “Lincoln” that the rest of the movie almost doesn’t matter.  It’s as if he first became Abraham Lincoln and then showed up for the filming.  Good actors can...

Have you ever been thrown in a sack with a hungry and half-mad badger and then been told to take the wheel and drive the car? No? Well, then you’re not Barack Obama and you haven’t met David Ignatius. Some of us can...

Chief Justice Roberts has been gunning for the Voting Rights Act since he was in short pants. If you want to know the sordid history, which began when Roberts worked in the Reagan Administration, Adam Serwer has the recap. You...