Month: April 2014

Commenter Steggles asked me to respond to a passage in Elizabeth Warren’s new book: A Fighting Chance. It involves a dinner Warren had with Larry Summers in the spring of 2009. Here it is: A telling anecdote involves a...

. Ynet Op-Ed: Israel occupied by the settlement lobby (Ynet News) Apr. 29, 2014 – The right-wing parties ruled the state throughout most of this period. The right could have annexed the territories to Israel – Hebron...

I’ll have much more to say about Sasha Issenberg’s opus on the Democrats’ midterm turnout strategy when I have some time to write about it. I think I will be returning to it repeatedly throughout the year....

The words “apartheid” and “Israel” keep coming up in relation to each other, and people keep saying that it isn’t helpful at all. I don’t know whether it is helpful or not, but there’s a...

The left should be grateful to Bill Clinton for ending 12 years of Republican occupation of the White House, and for managing to get reelected. A fair assessment of his administration should take into account what didn’t...