Dahlia Lithwick and Philippe Sands: How the Susan Crawford interview changes everything we know about torture: When Vice President Dick Cheney told the Weekly Standard last week, "I think on the left wing of the Democratic Party there are some people who believe that we really tortured," he probably...

Charles Fried says that the law is not the law when the crimes are "political crimes" committed by a highly-placed Republican: The Washington Monthly: But should the high and mighty get off when ordinary people committing the same crimes would go to prison? The answer is that they are not the same c...

Jim Henley writes: Enemy of the State § Unqualified Offerings: I’m proud to report that my friend Kerry "The Female Filibuster" Howley has been denied entrance to Burma on account of the apparent danger she poses to their scuzzy regime. I’m sorry it screwed up her travel plans, thou...

My line used to be that John McCain was the best possible Republican candidate--he was, after all, the only one not enthusiastically in favor of torture. But Jed Lewison has now convinced me that McCain is worse than I could previously have imagined. How has he done this. By firing up the Wayback Ma...

Daniel Koffler: Neocons For Obama? | Jewcy.com: As I've noted before, taking Bill Kristol at face value, rather than with a view to the agenda he's trying to advance, is perilous. So Kristol's remarks at AIPAC arguing that "[t]here are actually no [significant foreign policy] disputes...with the exc...

Outsourced to Matthew Yglesias: A Will and a Way: I'm not sure my estimation of George W. Bush is quite low enough to believe this really happened: "Kick ass!" [General Ricardo Sanchez] quotes the president as saying. "If somebody tries to stop the march to democracy, we will seek them out and kill ...

It is a nice article: Israel’s ‘American Problem’: WHEN the prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, arrived at a Jerusalem ballroom in February to address the grandees of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations... he was pugnacious, as is customary, but h...

It is a nice article: Israel’s ‘American Problem’: WHEN the prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, arrived at a Jerusalem ballroom in February to address the grandees of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations... he was pugnacious, as is customary, but h...

It's about people doing to George W. Bush in the future what others have in the past done to the foreign policy of Teddy Roosevelt: The Atlantic Online | June 2008 | Redeeming Dubya | Ross Douthat: The national memory often confuses hubris with greatness. That’s good news for George W. Bush: T...

It's about people doing to George W. Bush in the future what others have in the past done to the foreign policy of Teddy Roosevelt: The Atlantic Online | June 2008 | Redeeming Dubya | Ross Douthat: The national memory often confuses hubris with greatness. That’s good news for George W. Bush: T...