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Iran Drumbeat Watch: 'Edge of Breakdown' for the Military
A reader with a military background writes in response to my claim that "chickenhawks" are overrepresented, and U.S. military leaders underrepresented, among those clamoring for a strike on Iran:An...
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For the Chinese State Media, Every Day is Women's Day
The world will be duller, and we will be thrown back on the Onion and its like for entertainment, when someone in China's propaganda ministry stops to ask WTF??? about the state-owned publications that...
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False Equivalence Watch: Another Positive Step by NPR
I've griped early and often about mainstream reporters who have enabled the obstructionist abuse of the Senate's right-to-filibuster in recent years. Every story saying that a bill or nomination...
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Iran Drumbeat Watch: I Say It's Not Going to Happen
I wish I had gone ahead and posted this three days ago, when I was working on it and its argument would have seemed more daring. But I think the point is still worth making -- even as the chaos of the...
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Iran Drumbeat Watch: 'Stability Flip' in Israel?
Lots of (informed) response, pro and con, to my contention that the United States will not bomb Iran -- and that Israel won't do so unless the Netanyahu government really, truly loses sight of its...
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The Chinese State Media Don't Do Anything Halfway
The big political news in China appears to be the ouster of Bo Xilai, the most attention-getting figure in China's rising group of Communist leaders. But we shouldn't lose sight of other developments,...
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Iran Drumbeat: Let's Hear from Col. Gardiner
Back in 2004, when the idea of preemptive strikes on Iran was getting attention, the Atlantic conducted a "war game" to explore the feasibility of such an enterprise. To run the exercise, we turned to...
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Iran Drumbeat Watch: Really Getting Ready for War?
A few days ago I argued that a U.S. strike against Iran would be a more reckless step than any modern President has taken, and therefore is unlikely -- and that the threatened Israeli strike would be...
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Life Is Getting Better, Australian Beer Dept.
Americans know that Foster's is "Australian for beer." That's actually not true -- Foster's is a marginal player in the Aussie domestic market, although the Foster's-owned VB brand is very popular. But...
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Mike Daisey
I am disappointed but not shocked by the revelation that Mike Daisey was making things up with his Apple chronicles. I have been to many of the same places he was talking about, and from the first time...
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The Sad and Infuriating Mike Daisey Case
So many excellent things have been written about Mike Daisey's made-up reports while I have been hors d'Internet that my task now is easier and harder. Easier: just alluding to others who have made...
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The Most Ironic Critique of Mike Daisey's Inaccuracies
It has been nighttime in Australia, and I am just starting to look at the many Mike Daisey reactions that have come in during Sunday daytime for readers in North America.But there is one I have to deal...
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The Trayvon Martin Case
Through this past week, my Atlantic colleague Ta-Nehisi Coates has done a number of excellent and disturbing items on the killing of Trayvon Martin (right) in Sanford, Florida. You can see a...
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For The Chinese State Media, Every Day is Women's Day (Cont.)
My favorite newspaper, China Daily, is a gift that never stops giving. Previously in the same series, here.
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An Astounding Article in 'Global Times'
As soon as you can, try this link to an article on the site of the state-run and usually very nationalist Global Times newspaper in China. It is hard to believe that the story will stay up very long....
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Iran Drumbeat Watch: 'March of Folly' Redux?
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, in his Bloomberg View incarnation, reports just now from Israel that Prime Minister Netanyahu's administration is "growing confident" about the necessity, the...
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Trayvon Martin's Face
A reader sent this message after he read an item yesterday:Looking at your note on this online and seeing Trayvon Martin's picture juxtaposed by Obama's picture on the Atlantic cover made me think -...
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If You're in Washington Tonight: 'California State of Mind'
If I were back in DC today, which I'm not, I would be going to the National Archives for the premiere screening of California State of Mind, a documentary about former governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown by...
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False Equivalence Update: Good News from NPR, Not So Good from NYT
On the heels of several promising developments from NPR recently, a reader on the West Coast writes just now with this update:I was lying in bed listening to the 8 am (ET) NPR newscast this morning...
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An Exchange with Jeffrey Goldberg on 'Bluffing,' Israel, and Iran
My colleague Jeffrey Goldberg's reporting about Iran's nuclear ambitions, and what Israel and the United States might do in response, has drawn tremendous attention over the past two years, most...
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