The New Republic

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Daniel Drezner and Dani Rodrik are speculating on the impact of labor flows of highly talented soccer players from the developing world to rich countries. Says Rodrik: READ MORE >>

Abbey Sings Abbey Abbey Lincoln Love Is What Stays Mark Murphy READ MORE >>

  The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 By Saul Friedlander (HarperCollins, 870 pp., $39.95) READ MORE >>

Jacques Chirac was humiliated when la belle France rejected her bully suitor, whose enticements were conveyed to the populace by lui-même. Even politicians exquisitely attentive to public opinion somehow can't see that the charms of Europe are increasingly invisible to its separate populations. READ MORE >>

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When the United States deploys missiles in Europe, big things tend to happen. In 1979 President Jimmy Carter decided to install American Pershing II and cruise missiles on the continent to counter a Soviet missile known as the SS-20. Carried out four years later under Ronald Reagan, the deployment of these "Euromissiles" sparked a huge peace movement along with a wave of anti-Americanism. READ MORE >>

Pointing out intellectual dishonesty on The Wall Street Journal editorial page has a certain tiresome dog-bites-man quality to it. I generally restrain myself to only the most hilarious and/or flagrant examples. Today's editorial on health care, alas, fits the bill. READ MORE >>

I was wondering what Rick Santorum's been up to lately. He's now a senior fellow at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center, spending his days warning everyone that "government-run medicine" is "worst of what Europe has to teach us." Nothing too novel there, but then he brings this up:   READ MORE >>

The war in Iraq is lost--at least the original one, which was to make the place and then all of Arabia safe through democracy. READ MORE >>