For Canadian political followers, (count me in!), it’s a big weekend. After months of grassroots intra-party campaigning, the Liberal Party is choosing the delegates who will choose their next leader…in two months at the convention. If nothing but thorough, not to mention incomprehensibly complicated, the race is turning into a three way [...]

Clinton vs. Wallace on Fox News. Wallace asks about Clinton’s failure to kill Bin Laden, and well, Clinton starts swinging:
CLINTON: OK, let’s talk about it. I will answer all of those things on the merits but I want to talk about the context of which this…arises. I’m being asked this on the FOX [...]

I have an article out in this month’s Walrus Magazine on the US bombing of Cambodia, written with Ben Kiernan. We use a yet unpublished database of all US sorties over the country to challenge some of the historical record and consequences of the strikes. The lead is below, I will post [...]

Dresner has a good overview up of the ongoing incompetence dodge debate. While the two arguments, incompetence and doomed to failure, are of course not mutually exclusive, Dresner rightly points out that the former is greatly substantiated by the new book by Chandrasekaran on the failures of the CPA, excerpted in this, much [...]

: I would be curious what oxblog readers, and David in particular, think of Frum’s assessment of McCain’s presidential chances? Maybe he is pushing an agenda here, but the reasoning seems weak to me. He cites both the senatorial curse and what he calls the Lieberman Catch:

McCain’s friend and Senate colleague Joe [...]

An article today by Fareed Zakaria is worth quoting at length as I think it goes beyond it’s stated purpose, to expose the dangerous historical parallels in oversimplifying an enemy for domestic political purposes, and speaks to wider liberal unease with Bush administration foreign policy. In fact, if democrats are looking for a simplistic [...]

I nominate Bryant Park, where I am quite happily positioned at the moment. Warm evening, a drink, a fast free connection and superb people watching? Hard to beat, but what are some other suggestions? There are some good ones out there…