Something big is up in Havana. So big that some are saying that Fidel Castro has finally moved on to the next world -- though I don't believe this to be the case. Others are saying that they saw Fidel out in public today on an odd shuffling, walk about, flanked by well armed security guards -- and a...

Though it sometimes frustrates friends, one of my core beliefs is to engage those who disagree with my views -- and also to give credit when and where credit is due. When I saw that the right-anchored Jerusalem Post was running an interview of Elliott Abrams with Ruthie Blum Leibowitz, I expected th...

Hot damn! I am very excited today. A book, America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy that I was very involved in helping to hatch made it to Michiko Kakutani's top 10 list for books from 2008. And to top off a great day, my colleague and friend Steve Coll's The Bi...

Its hard to resist a headline like that. Reliance ADAG's love affair with the Bachchan's continues, this time in the form a mobile blogging application called MoBlog developed especially for Amitabh Bachchan. The re-designed blog features a mobile shaped left navigation featuring twitter-esque updat...

It must be hard living up to a name like that. After recently announcing development deals with eight Hollywood based studio's, Reliance ADAG's multi-billion entertainment arm Big Entertainment seems to be reaching for the Magic 10 figure. Mint quotes president Rajesh Sawhney expecting the firm to r...

Wearing blue is sometimes just not enough. I hug a lot of Republicans -- particularly today's "dissident Republicans in foreign and economic policy", and there are some Dems I won't go near -- and the flip is true. I hug a lot of Democrats, and there are a lot of Republicans I won't go near. That's ...