Month: June 2015

Awarding the World Cup to Qatar was only a slightly worse idea than starting a land war in Asia. Was there ever any possibility that rampant bribery didn’t explain the decision?

I almost never agree with First Read’s take on anything, but they’ve basically stolen my piece, so I have no choice but to agree with them on this one: “In today’s highly polarized political world, this is how you...

Well, okay, I have finally gotten the new issue of the Washington Monthly posted online. Here’s a peek at the Table of Contents. Obviously, the issue has as its theme the difficulties facing the Millennial generation, but...

It would be hard to count the ways that this is stupid and wrong. Including the unfortunate ending.

At last very good news coming out of Turkey as the AKP party loses its majority and the Kurdish HDP party reaches nearly 13%, sufficient to clear the 10% threshold, and gains 82 seats in parliament. Election map with latest...