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“What I saw bore no resemblance to rosy official statements by U.S. military leaders about conditions on the ground,” Davis wrote in the essay. He goes on to say ... More »

But Martin L. Cook, who teaches military ethics at the Naval War College, says Colonel Davis has identified a hazard that is intrinsic to military culture, in which a ... More »

Eventually – and logically – church leaders who were now dependent on the largesse and protection of the empire felt obliged to support it and its troops, pay homage to ... More »

As the power of global corporations transcends the political power of nation states, global corporations are simply rewriting legislation in advanced democracies behind ... More »

On Jan. 22, he asserted that safety-net programs — yes, he specifically used that term — have “massive overhead,” and that because of the cost of a huge bureaucracy ... More »

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Instead, let’s focus on the type of jobs that Staples, Domino’s et al. produce for the American middle-class. While these jobs are not as slavish as those sought after ... More »

His cheerleading so far outshines his legislative gains, and his business-as-usual, save Wall Street programs will be forgotten in 10 years. Is there any doubt four more ... More »

And it’s a failure, in particular, of the austerity doctrine that has dominated elite policy discussion both in Europe and, to a large extent, in the United States for ... More »

“In fact, a military attack on Iran is probably what would make nuclear Iran and regional proliferation real. What an irony.” —- Experts ... More »

Stewart realized what Gingrich is really trying to be: “Lunar Trump.” “And like Earth Trump, you will not be President,” Stewart said. More »

The State Department estimated that “the construction work force would consist of approximately 5,000 to 6,000 workers,” and said the project “would not ... More »

Clearly, Mr. Daniels doesn’t have much of a future in the humor business. But, more to the point, anyone who reads The New York Times knows that his assertion about job ... More »

I sort of thought, here is a case where there were 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians, most of them in their homes, and they were killed. The fact is, is that there was never ... More »

So, it’s true to say that more has been spent on food stamps under the Obama administration, but that’s—I mean, we need to be having the conversation about, well, why ... More »

Well, the truth is that the companies that have not paid taxes are the ones who lay people off. So, Bank of America, which made quite a bit of money last year—had a lot ... More »

Perhaps he can convince Republicans that questioning how he managed to “earn” $342 million while bankrupting a company is the same thing as assaulting free ... More »

And boasting daily about your infinite wonderfulness only produces truly unhinged delusions of grandeur. Actually, psychologists have diagnostic categories for Newtism: ... More »

The candidate who is—people take quite seriously is Ron Paul, but simply because he says he’s in favor of withdrawing U.S. troops from all over the world and ending the ... More »

Bill Maher offered up an interesting analogy: that people like Mitt Romney for the same reasons they like rappers. They like a rich person because they want to be rich ... More »

Although disclosure of tax returns is standard practice for political candidates, Mr. Romney has never done so, and, at first, he tried to stonewall the issue even in a ... More »

SOPA, in particular, was negotiated without any consultation with the technology sector. They were specifically excluded. More »

Solitude can even help us learn. According to research on expert performance by the psychologist Anders Ericsson, the best way to master a field is to work on the task ... More »

But there seems to be a lack of discipline we used to have. When we had those public interest guidelines I talked about, we also had some broadcaster voluntary codes of ... More »

…there’s no need for the company to make higher quality software. Priestley writes that the company has paid less attention to developing software and, thus, ... More »

-5% of primary voters would pick Colbert. He runs behind Mitt Romney’s 27, Newt Gingrich’s 23, Rick Santorum’s 18, Ron Paul’s ... More »

Incidentally, the previous administration’s claims of job growth always started not from Inauguration Day but from August 2003, when Bush-era employment hit its low ... More »

noted that Clear Channel was purchased by Bain Capital, a Boston-based private equity firm founded by Mitt Romney, in a 2008 leveraged buyout. Brugman and Malloy speculated ... More »

Obama didn’t address the legality of his plan to bypass Congress, but White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer dismissed the GOP ... More »

One of the less noted aspects of the Santorum campaign is his passion for amending the U.S. Constitution. He wants to amend it to ban abortion. He wants to amend it to ... More »

The notion that these two individuals — or anyone like them — are entitled to be treated as neutral, ideology-free experts is what is “preposterous nonsense.” But ... More »

They see America as being like a family that took out too large a mortgage, and will have a hard time making the monthly payments. This is, however, a really bad ... More »

But what administration officials don’t say is that Obama’s health care law already puts in place one of Ryan’s main goals by limiting future increases in ... More »

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But Kelly’s idea of paying his own way includes inheriting a car dealership, marrying a wealthy oil heiress, and making some money from the government bailout of the ... More »