Department Index
Fighting Words 2009:
A wartime lexicon.
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- Caught on Tape What the Nixon tapes tell us about the Republican Party.
June 29, 2009 - Persian Paranoia Iranian leaders will always believe Anglo-Saxons are plotting against them.
June 22, 2009 - Don't Call What Happened in Iran Last Week an Election It was a crudely stage-managed insult to everyone involved.
June 14, 2009 - When the Extreme Becomes the Norm What connects Obama's pronouncements on head scarves and the argument over released Guantanamo detainees?
June 8, 2009 - Remembering Amos Elon The historian who explained Israel to itself.
June 1, 2009 - The End of the Tamil Tigers Insurgencies don't always have history on their side.
May 25, 2009 - Obama's Court Jesters As Wanda Sykes showed, comedians aren't funny when they try to flatter the president.
May 18, 2009 - President of Which Israel? The president and prime minister have radically different visions for their country.
May 10, 2009 - Ruthless yet Humane Why Obama cited Churchill on torture.
May 4, 2009 - Yet Another CIA Failure What the torture revelations tell us about the culture of Langley.
April 27, 2009 - Ankara Shows Its Hand Turkey's scheming at the Strasbourg summit proves it doesn't belong in the European Union.
April 20, 2009 - Don't Be So Sensitive, Mr. President Truth comes before reconciliation.
April 13, 2009 - Telling the Truth About the Armenian Genocide We must resist Turkish pressure to distort history.
April 6, 2009 - Rascal Flatts The kings of Midwestern prom rock.
April 1, 2009 - Prince's New Album A new protégé and a lot of love for Salma Hayek.
March 31, 2009 - Let Them In When governments refuse to let politicians and academics into their countries, it's nothing but old-fashioned censorship.
March 30, 2009 - An Army of Extremists How some military rabbis are trying to radicalize Israeli soldiers.
March 23, 2009 - Terrorists, Dissidents, and Copy Editors Why it matters how the media describe killers in Iraq and Ireland.
March 16, 2009 - Swat? Not! Handing the Swat Valley to the Taliban was shameful and wrong.
March 9, 2009 - Don't Say a Word A U.N. resolution seeks to criminalize opinions that differ with the Islamic faith.
March 2, 2009 - Avigdor Lieberman's Chutzpah The right to return cannot confer the right to expel.
Feb. 23, 2009 - Don't Let the Mullahs Run Out the Clock Obama must talk directly to the Iranian people.
Feb. 15, 2009 - Is Zimbabwe Now a Rogue State? And is it germ warfare when cholera sufferers are forced to cross international boundaries?
Feb. 9, 2009 - Farewell to a Much-Misunderstood Man John Updike preferred to be wrong on account of the right reservations than right because of the wrong ones.
Feb. 2, 2009 - A Wonderful Day for Washington, D.C. Now it's time to hold President Obama accountable for his promises.
Jan. 26, 2009 - No Regrets Why I'm not sorry that George W. Bush beat Al Gore and John Kerry.
Jan. 19, 2009 - More Than a Good Feeling Why are so many oligarchs, royal families, and special-interest groups giving money to the Clinton Foundation?
Jan. 12, 2009 - Bad Timing Gaza could have been a model of the future Palestinian state. Instead, it is a place of repression and aggression.
Jan. 5, 2009
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