Current Events : American

The Culture Wars Are Over and the Idiots Have Won A veteran journalist's acidically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States. In the midst of a career-long quest to separate the smart from the pap, Charles Pierce had a defining moment at the Creation Museum in Kentucky, where he observed a dinosaur. more...

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Russell Mead, New York Times Book Review ) comes a timely and important account of the Bush administration’s squandered foreign-policy opportunities–what it did and did not do during the run-up to the war in Iraq. John Newhouse describes the ways in which America’s relationship with much of the world went wrong after the events of September 11, 2001, the moment when most nations were ready to accept U. more...

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Nir Rosen has been hailed by The New York Review of Books as the reporter who managed to get inside Fallujah "at a time when it was a death trap for Western reporters," and as one of the few Western reporters able to report the truth from Iraq. Still in his twenties, a freelancer who has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, and Harper's Magazine, Rosen speaks Iraqi-accented Arabic and has managed to report from some of the country's most dangerous locales. Even The Weekly Standard notes that "he probably has more sources in the insurgency than any other American reporter." more...

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Fifty percent of American voters define themselves as political moderates, two-thirds favor political solutions that come from the center of the political spectrum, and Independents outnumber both Democrats and Republicans. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush each explicitly used Centrist strategies to win the White House—and twenty-first-century candidates will be compelled to do the same. more...

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George W. Bush, a poor student, got into the finest schools. A National Guardsman, he missed a year of service. A failed businessman, he got rich. A defeated politician, he became a state governor. How can you blame him for expecting he'd inherit the White House? In Is Our Children Learning? Paul Begala gives a devastating assessment. more...

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