A Free(ish) Press Comes to Burma
Alexa L. McMahonSome may say print is dead, but one thing is sure: they haven't been to Burma. In just two short weeks the Burmese press will be free to print daily news for the first time in over...
View ArticleThe Steven Brill–New Republic Feud
Robert Golan-VilellaEarlier this year, there was a minor kerfuffle when the New Republic, which had commissioned a lengthy piece by journalist Steven Brill on health-care costs for its first cover...
View ArticleIraq and Moral Imagination
Robert Golan-VilellaAssessing the slew of commentary that has accompanied the ten-year anniversary of the Iraq War’s outbreak, Marc Lynch observes that something important is missing—the voices of the...
View ArticleSo Kim Jong-un Walks Into a Bar . . .
Robert Golan-VilellaAt BuzzFeed, Benny Johnson collects some of the Internet’s comedic responses to the recent bluster and threats emanating from North Korea. His bottom line: “The Internet Is Really...
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Tehran's Almaty Opening
Mehrun EtebariThe second round of negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program, held in Almaty, Kazakhstan last week, ended with no breakthrough. Iranian officials and commentators had expressed high hopes...
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The Post-Terrorist Incident Drill
Paul R. PillarReactions to the bombs at the Boston Marathon have quickly fallen into a familiar pattern. It is as if there were a manual that politicians, journalists and others involved in the...
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The Degraded Correspondents' Dinner
Robert W. MerryOn the list of the many factors contributing to official Washington’s dysfunction these days, no one would put the degradation of the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner near...
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The Onion Goes to War
Robert Golan-VilellaDoes the Onion want the United States to fight another war in Syria? The satirical newspaper’s coverage of the two-year-old civil war in that country has taken a dramatic turn....
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The Destructive Power of Conventional Wisdom
Paul R. PillarThe lead article in the current International Security, by Alastair Iain Johnston of Harvard, addresses the now firmly entrenched idea that over the past two or three years China has...
View ArticleGoogle Recognizes Palestinian Statehood
Lewis McCraryGoogle's stated mission is "to organize the world's information." But that's not always as simple as providing the best Chinese takeout menu: in its attempt to classify vast amounts of...
View ArticleAn Ugly Smear of Jeremy Scahill
Robert Golan-VilellaIn the Weekly Standard, Bruce Bawer reviews Jeremy Scahill’s recent book, Dirty Wars, which is about America’s approach to war, counterterrorism and targeted killings over the past...
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Leaks, Privacy and Journalism
Paul R. PillarPublic discussion of the subpoena of telephone records of Associated Press reporters as part of a leak investigation has been impaired by widespread ignorance or misunderstanding of what...
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The Pendulum of Opinion on Security and Privacy
Paul R. PillarSixteen years ago I participated in the annual summer study of the Defense Science Board, a panel of senior experts and executives from the private sector created in the 1950s to advise...
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When Camelot Went to Japan
Jennifer LindTHE UNITED States has security partnerships with numerous countries whose people detest America. The United States and Pakistan wrangled for seven months over a U.S. apology for the NATO...
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The Big Insinuation Still Works
Paul R. PillarIn their long history of practicing the dark arts of misleading the public, political leaders have enjoyed much success in getting people to believe what is not true, and what even just a...
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Demonstration Democracy
Amitai EtzioniMany are asking why people in democratic regimes are taking to the streets. First there was Paul Pillar in The National Interest. Then, drawing on Pillar, Tom Friedman asked the same...
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Stop Bashing the NSA
Paul R. PillarThe brouhaha over some of the National Security Agency's collection activities is the most recent example of a tendency—by the public, the press and the Congress—to treat certain...
View ArticleIraq and Moral Imagination
Robert Golan-VilellaAssessing the slew of commentary that has accompanied the ten-year anniversary of the Iraq War’s outbreak, Marc Lynch observes that something important is missing—the voices of the...
View ArticleSo Kim Jong-un Walks Into a Bar . . .
Robert Golan-VilellaAt BuzzFeed, Benny Johnson collects some of the Internet’s comedic responses to the recent bluster and threats emanating from North Korea. His bottom line: “The Internet Is Really...
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Tehran's Almaty Opening
Mehrun EtebariThe second round of negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program, held in Almaty, Kazakhstan last week, ended with no breakthrough. Iranian officials and commentators had expressed high hopes...
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