Joe Scott 3: The Body Politic

Bush: Getting Real At Last?

17 July 2008 |permalink | email article

B43 has authorized the most significant U.S. diplomatic contact with Iran since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Unclear is whether it’s a wake up call or more merely a rearrangement of the deck chairs as the band plays on.… read full story

Afghanistan, Not Iraq

16 July 2008 |permalink | email article

Obama, in a major foreign policy speech, invoked Gen. George Marshall, architect of the famous economic aid plan that helped rebuild Europe after World War II, while offering new approaches to protect U.S. security and rebuild international relations.

Obama… read full story

Obama and The New Yorker

15 July 2008 |permalink | email article

Founder Harold Ross famously declared in his 1925 prospectus for The New Yorker: “It has announced that it is not edited for the old lady in Dubuque.”

The magazine has never lost its touches of sophisticated humor that Ross,… read full story