Month: January 2015

Who are the people who want to listen to Jamie Dimon whine about being over-regulated? Seriously. I want to know who is actually sympathetic. Jamie Dimon, grappling with multibillion-dollar legal costs and rising capital...

In the January/February issue of the Washington Monthly, former national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia, Paul Pillar, reviews Dirty Entanglements: Corruption, Crime, and Terrorism, by Louise I. Shelley....

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont isn’t a member of one of the two major parties so he really belongs to a caucus of one. This gives him a degree of freedom to chart his own course, and sometimes his course is...

Interview with Jeremy Scahill of The Intercept – Al Qaeda Source: AQAP Directed Paris Attack. Background Al Awlaki, AQAP in Yemen | Democracy Now | You know, the Taliban fighters always say, you know, “We love death...

Here’s a trick question. Who do you think will be more dispirited by a third Mitt Romney campaign for the presidency? You, who will have to read about it? Or the bloggers and reporters, who will have to write about it?...