Best of Both Worlds

With human rights groups reminding us that there's been no accountability for the Rabaa massacre, it's also worth noting how this e...

 Ross Douthat has a nice column attempting an analogy between the Stuart rebellions in Britain and Ireland and the diffuse nature of populi...

[This is entirely a recycling of material from 18 months ago , but then again, the traffic situation in Kent is a recycling of material from...

New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff interviewing British actor Mark Rylance, this is the final exchange after Rylance spoke about h...

Ross Douthat in the Sunday New York Times -- Six years ago, under the pressure of Donald Trump’s insurgency, the G.O.P. split into three fa...

Why has there been no reaction to Kevin McCarthy saying one thing in public and another in private, in this case about whether Trump should ...

 Here's a link to the latest action by US Treasury Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) regarding the "transnational criminal or...

[Originally posted in 2014; reposting in light of Russian invasion of Ukraine] Barack Obama , 10 November 2011 -- Russia’s World Trade O...

[originally posted September 2016; reviving given the Russian invasion of Ukraine] That was once the Obama Administration theory about how...

The Continental USA has a new winter storm according to the Weather Channel . It's named Frida. And here we go again . This "storm...

From the annual (if delayed) Maureen Dowd New York Times column where she hands the keyboard to her conservative brother Kevin -- That day ...

 The easy response to the fiasco will be a lot of "You had one job" dunks on Twitter. UEFA had outsourced the technology for the d...

One of multiple news sources : PAMPLONA, Spain, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Severe flooding in Spain's Navarre region submerged cars and houses ...

At some point, after Kentucky gets through all its funerals, there will need to be an assessment of public awareness of the dangerous weathe...

There is no reason to name North Atlantic low pressure systems. None . There are several of them active at the minute . One of them -- now c...

 Financial Times on Eric Zemmour -- His extraordinary rise since he emerged as a putative candidate in the summer is down to a Trumpian gen...

  With all the Eric Clapton antics, it would be too easy to riff on Strange Brew as a song about vaccines, so here instead is the Strange Br...

 Secretary General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, used his Martyrs' Day speech to make clear that it's not respectful to Yemenis t...

 JD: People will look at the ashes of Westerburg and say; "now there's a school that self-destructed, not because society didn...

 From Financial Times article on the relaxation of UK quarantine restrictions -- Tom Jenkins, chief executive of the European Tourism Assoc...

 Janan Ganesh in the Financial Times -- Social media’s mutation from Speaker’s Corner to Gin Lane roughly tracks the smartphone’s conquest ...

 From the excellent Washington Post recounting of the collapse of the Afghanistan government as seen from Kabul and Washington DC, amid the...

  Wall Street Journal , 9 August (when things were just getting dire in Afghanistan) -- [President Ashraf] Ghani has been issuing wildly opt...

RTE :  Today's All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship semi-final between Limerick and Waterford has been delayed until 5.30pm due to ...

Financial Times on protests in Paris:  Staunch Communists marched with supporters of the far-right Rassemblement National party and some fr...

This was in the article before the Friday Morning Freak out article:  "Still, when the virus tries to snake down into the lungs, immune...

From the already legendary law firm report into the Archegos fiasco -- Both Co-Heads [of Prime Services] were double-hatted with numerous re...

"Imagine Ricky Gervais’s fictional firm in The Office trading up from the Slough Trading Estate to a one-day-a-week meeting room off Pi...

Ian Paisley MP in the latest House of Commons discussion of Brexit as applied in Northern Ireland:  I must say for the record that I do not...

 Important context here from Karsten Brandt (use Google translate). Climate of course the major factor but so also an apparent breakdown in ...