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Hey, Capitol Hill People Love Spaceships Too!
After the space shuttle Discovery made its bittersweet flyby over Washington last week, I quoted one onlooker who said that people throughout the region seemed to be caught up in the unashamed...
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Airport Updates from China, Russia, Spain, and (Sigh) the United States
(Please see peeved update below.) ]China: Earlier this month, in Shanghai, passengers who were peeved about a long delay stormed out of the terminal onto the taxiway, milling around amid arriving...
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Every Nation Gets the TSA It Deserves
Yesterday Jeffrey Goldberg told the astonishing story of his mother-in-law's run-in with TSA screeners, and I had complaints of my own. I followed mine with a quote from a stalwart Republican reader...
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Another Round With Jeffrey Goldberg: Is the Bomb-Iran Threat Receding?
A month ago my Atlantic colleague Jeffrey Goldberg joined me for two rounds of Q-and-A about the heated military rhetoric between Israel and Iran. My main question was whether Prime Minister Netanyahu...
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The Fate of Chen Guangcheng
Obviously this is a big, fluid, significant, and fast-moving story, about which I'll try to say more by this evening after talking with friends in China and elsewhere. Just one point for the moment:The...
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'Even Jimmy Carter'
Mitt Romney informs us that the raid that took out Osama bin Laden one year ago was no big deal, because "even Jimmy Carter would have given that order."Grrrrr.Necessary disclosure: I worked for Jimmy...
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More on 'Even Jimmy Carter'
About Obama:I support Romney, but generally agree with the substance of your post. However, there is something quite depressing in the way Obama is now framing the killing of Bin Laden, and when O...
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An Exchange with Samuel Popkin on the Obama-Romney Showdown
In my big story on "Obama, Explained" two months ago I quoted Samuel Popkin, a political scientist at UCSD (and longtime friend) on what the Obama re-election campaign could learn from Harry Truman's...
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Obama in Afghanistan: How This Looks Through the Re-Election Lens
I unavoidably missed the Obama speech from Afghanistan this evening. To catch up I naturally turn to our Steve Clemons for the foreign-policy summary -- and to Samuel Popkin for what the moment shows...
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How to Follow the Chen Guangcheng News
I am trying to keep up with the news, rumors, inferences, and discussions about this case. For others similarly interested, I suggest feeds from @limlouisa, @panphil, @keithrichburg, @comradewong,...
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OK, I Said I Wouldn't Complain About 'New Look' Gmail Any More
But that was then. Also, it's a free country, and I can hardly be expected to keep others from expressing their views.So I have changed my mind and feel like complaining one more time. I'll start off...
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More on Chen Guangcheng: The Limits of Outside Power
As mentioned yesterday, what I know about this case, from the other side of the world here in DC, mainly depends on the blog posts and Twitter feeds of people on scene. The Atlantic has had several...
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A Reminder That It Will Be a While Before We Fully Understand the Chen Case
Headline from Keith Richburg and William Wan in the Washington Post just now, based on a phone call from Chen Guangcheng: The story says:In a telephone interview early Friday, Chen said he does not...
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If You Want to See a Dreamliner Up Close
The Atlantic is hosting an "Innovation Summit," next Tuesday, May 8, at the architecturally interesting old Terminal A of DC National Airport. Full details are available on our site. I have day-job...
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A Glimpse at the Divisions Within China Over the Chen Guangcheng Case
(See update below.) One of the hardest points to absorb or remember from outside China, especially during an emergency like the recent Chen Guangcheng case, is how divided and even chaotic policies on...
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Ask Dr. Popkin: 'How Many Jobs Does a Swiss Bank Account Create?'
In two previous installments -- first, and second -- I asked Samuel Popkin, a political scientist from UCSD, how the logic of re-election campaigns he lays out in his new book The Candidate applied to...
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Annals of the Security State: China vs. America Department
With a twist that may be enlightening for people on both sides.A Chinese-citizen engineer recently came to the United States on a month-long business assignment. He was excited, and so was his company....
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'You Should Know': Latest Nullification News, of the Judiciary
This morning, early!!, I was on the MSNBC show Up with Chris Hayes,* discussing China, politics, and other matters. (With Catherine Rampell, David Frum, Ann Lee, and Alexis Goldstein.) China clips here...
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Another Way to Think About the Chen Guangcheng Case
Via this (imagined) scene at the U.S. embassy in Beijing last week. Suddenly it all makes more sense. This is from Beijing Cream, which also goes into some detail about the disagreements within the...
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The Dreamliner Has Landed
I mentioned several days ago that the Boeing 787 "Dreamliner" would be at DC National airport this week, for tours (sorry, already fully booked) and a display during the Atlantic's "Innovation Summit"...
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