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Bill Keller's self-defense on

In response to the Harvard study documenting how newspapers labeled waterboarding as "torture" for almost 100 years until the Bush administration told them not to, The New York Times issued a statementjustifying this behavior on the ground that it did not want to take sides in the debate...

Major Scandal Erupts involving Rep. Jane Harman, Alberto Gonzales and AIPAC

Other obligations prevent me from writing until later today -- and I intend to focus on Rahm Emanuel’s war-crimes-protecting proclamation that Obama’s desire for immunity extends beyond CIA officers perpetrating torture to the "policy makers" who ordered it (watch today as the hardest-core Obama loyalists start explaining how the UN doesn’t matter, international treaties are irrelevant, and war criminals need not be held accountable) -- but, until then, I wanted to highlight this extre..

Ideology vs. pragmatism: Is one more important than the other?

At Democracy Arsenal, Shadi Hamid makes the reasonable (though, to me, not entirely persuasive) point that foreign policy viewpoints are not conducive to "left-right" labeling because, for many key debates, there is no discernible "left" and "right" position. Andrew Sullivan agrees with Hamdi’s point and writes:..