Last night, Noam Chomsky delivered the Edward Said Memorial Lecture at Columbia on "The Unipolar…

We’ve made a lot of Ethan Bronner’s implicit endorsement of the Israeli battle-orders for West…

Here is something curious: evidence, via Liz Cheney, that the very idea of the U.S.…

“There were no thrills while he reigned, but neither were there any headaches. He had…

Notice the page 1 story in today’s New York Times on the internal White House…

In a piece in the forthcoming New York Review of Books, David Bromwich creatively opposes the post-colonial credo of Obama in his Cairo speech to a book by Leslie Gelb of the Council of Foreign Relations, which mingles the best-and-the-brightest…

David Bromwich writes: President Obama in his Cairo speech mentioned and named the “unprecedented Holocaust” suffered by European Jews in the years 1933-1945. He also mentioned the sufferings of Palestinians, from the dispossession of 1948 to the life under occupation…

David Bromwich writes: One inference is plain from the contrary emphases of Netanyahu and Obama at their news conference. The coming six months will see a continued aggressive insistence by Israel’s most uncritical American supporters, tuned to a single theme:…

David Bromwich shares my criticism of the New York Times’s article on the Israeli plans to take more land in east Jerusalem: A few details warrant further notice in the Bronner-Kershner story on the urban-renewal-by-monument-making that Israel has used to…

Great piece by David Bromwich on Huffpo calling for a full investigation of the torture-orderers, so as to establish why they did it, and to prevent the repetition of such power-grabs. Names Jane Harman as a rationalizer of torture: “I’m…