On April 22, in a meeting room located in Baghdad’s Green Zone, Scott Heiferman, chief executive of Meetup.com, and Jason Liebman, chief executive of how-to video site Howcast, sat down with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih for some coffee. It was one of their last meetings as part of a delegation of Read More
Without getting straight to the Out-Now question, it seems obvious that everyone would be better off if the Bushies admitted the plain reality right now, The war is a giant failure. Misconceived, misguided, mis-everything'd—whatever, it isn't working at all. (And yes, too, Bush should be impeached for incompetence). The more pressure on Bush to make Read More
The first Republican convention in New York arrives at a time when most New Yorkers with country houses and suburban in-laws have left town. Late August has appeared with its dirty heat and catastrophic rains, a city-wide sanction for very un–New York seclusion and introspection; also, the strange sense among New Yorkers-as we are repelled Read More
BAGHDAD-Even if you are a deaf person and an optimist, it would be hard not to hear the sound of the wheels coming off.
On Wednesday, March 31, four American contractors escorting a food-distribution convoy through the city of Falluja were killed by Iraqi insurgents, and crowds cheered as their charred bodies were mutilated, dismembered and, Read More
