Was the Presidency Bought Last Month, or Not?
Over at Mischiefs of Faction, Seth Masket wades into the post-election “Potato Chip Analogy” poli-sci wars, which you…
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Someone Successfully Explained Egypt’s Politics! (In English)
Below, an excerpt from must-read, Cairo-based Sarah Carr (tagline: “1/2 Egyptian. It’s My Country Too You Bastards”) who…
Drones and the News
Drones. The military has them, police have them, in fact anyone with a couple hundred bucks to spare…
Sex and the Teenage Girl, Redux
Like the morning-after pill, the HPV vaccine doesn’t encourage teen promiscuity, either.
Porn Stars: Actually Not All That Messed Up
Those interchangeable ladies who have sex on film for profit – everyone knows they’re drug-addicted products of broken…
Two States Pictured on the Dividing Wall
Palestinians gathered in Bethlehem in the late evening to watch the United Nations vote for their statehood projected…
Morsi Goes to Philadelphia
Egyptian Constitutional voters, unlike Jefferson and Madison, have to deal with Twitter. It’s late afternoon in the Mediterranean,…
Fiscal Cliff Round-Up
John Dickerson has a fine piece up at Slate that separates the signal from the noise on the…
Plan Now for the Robot Apocalypse
You say he’s wistful. I say he’s plotting. (WALL-E image courtesy Disney) Ah, lovable robots, so helpful and…
Was Egypt’s Snap Election the Crucial Misstep?
The Morsi power problem in Egypt prompted me to look back at Marc Herman’s piece from a year…