NEW YORK: On April 13, Iran is scheduled to meet with representatives of China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States — the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council — plus Germany (the so-called “P5+1”) in an (...)
NEW YORK: Whenever I hear people on America's Republican right call themselves “conservative,” I experience the mental equivalent of a slight electric shock.
A conservative is someone who, in the tradition of the eighteenth-century English (...)
NEW HAVEN: There can be no military resolution to the war in Afghanistan, only a political one. Writing that sentence almost makes me faint with boredom. As US President Barack Obama ponders what to do about the war, who wants to repeat a point (...)
The recent United States National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which reports that Iran once had a "nuclear weapons program but suspended it in 2003, means that there will probably be no American attack on Iran during the Bush administration. How (...)