Arlen Specter’s switch to the Democratic Party is being treated as another rebuke to the religious right. Huffpo says as much. Specter, a supporter of abortion rights and stem cell research, seemed to suggest as much too, in his press…
Foreign Policy has the latest on the Jane Harman case. A little inside-baseball even for this scorecard-keeper. But a couple points: Harman’s former Intelligence aide, Jeremy Bash, is now working as chief of staff for Leon Panetta at the CIA….
Egyptian sociologist and human-rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim, who is teaching in the U.S. rather than doing jail time in Egypt, spoke at Harvard, where he is a visiting fellow, the other day. I’m told: Saad said that the Israel…
Bernard-Henri Levy on Huffington Post: For the honor and the salvation of those still in Rwanda and Darfur, in solidarity with the homosexuals hanged in Tehran or imprisoned in Cuba, for the love of newlyweds burned alive in Afghanistan or…
One of my favorite themes is that Palestinian statelessness is an American Jewish achievement–the lobby’s support for the settlement program throughout the ’90s. Jeff Blankfort reports on a review of Dan Fleshler’s book on the Israel lobby, in The Jewish…
Bruce Wolman writes: According to Haaretz, Obama wants aid to go to the Palestinian Authority even with Hamas in the government. Republican Representative Mark Steven Kirk told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a House hearing last week that the…
Bruce Wolman writes: According to Haaretz, Obama wants aid to go to the Palestinian Authority even with Hamas in the government. Republican Representative Mark Steven Kirk told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a House hearing last week that the…
Yesterday Marty Peretz at the New Republic offered his readers a scoop regarding Roger Cohen’s NYT column (which gives Peretz high blood pressure). Headlined “The New York Times Downgrades Roger Cohen,” the report was surmise: “[T]he troubled Times no longer…
Why are newspapers dying? One reason: because original thinkers are coming out of the academy and sharing their learned ideas on-line, and their journalism is better than the journalists’. Steve Walt today says that Netanyahu’s expansionist policy is national suicide….