History Unfolding

I had hoped to be posting this weekend on a new book, The Promise , by my old friend and one-time student Jonathan Alter, but the book is so...

Now that the election is over we have to face the reality of what it means. Having spent the last two years pursuing maximum feasible obstr...

I have now finished Bob Woodward's latest real-time account of American diplomacy, policy and strategy, Obama's Wars, , covering the...

For the past 16 years the United States has been in a bloodless civil war, parallel in many ways to the shorter, far more violent one during...

I thought I was done posting for the weekend (see yesterday for a more important one), but as often happens, a few stories in this morning...