
Verhaßt ist mir das Folgen und das Führen. Gehorchen? Nein! Und aber nein—Regieren! Wer sich nicht schrecklich ist, macht niemand Schrecken: Und nur wer Schrecken macht, kann andre führen. Verhaßt ist mirs schon, selber mich zu führen! Ich l...

[W]hen we talk about lying, and especially about lying among acting men, let us remember that the lie did not creep into politics by some accident of human sinfulness. Moral outrage, for this reason alone, is not likely to make it disappear...

On today’s Frost Over the World, I discuss with Sir David Frost and Glenn Sulmasy the Obama Administration’s plan to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and a group of related defendants in federal court in Manhattan. Watch it through the Internet video link here. . . .

A little more than six years ago, Lt. Col. Dominic “Rocky” Baragona was on his way home. He had a long journey ahead, but he was looking forward to it. Colonel Baragona was serving in Iraq, and his tour was up. H...

If President Obama has ever heard of William L. Shirer, chances are it’s in connection with Nazi Germany. ...

Harper's Magazine
Editors Theodore Ross and Christopher Beha read a selection from the archives at Harper's Magazine Presents: The Family Table, on November 11 at Housing Works Bookstore in New York.
The dialogue, which appeared in the January 2008 issue of the magazine, appears here:
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/01/0 081861

Marian Wang works and writes for Mother Jones. She previously was a freelance investigative reporter and blogger for The Chicago Reporter, the Chi-Town Daily News and ChicagoNow...

Former Bush Administration Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey addressed the Federalist Society only hours after his successor, Eric Holder, announced his plan to bring a group of Guantánamo prisoners up on federal charges in Manhattan....

It will be interesting to see if the State Department, which by order of a presidential proclamation and act of congress is required to bar corrupt foreign officials from American territory, will finally take action on Teodoro Nguema Obiang...

Attorney General Eric Holder announced that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other accused September 11 plotters would be tried in federal court in lower Manhattan...










