Foreign Policy Watch

Well... damn . There's some news for you. Assuming latest reports are true (and given the twists and turns of this affair, that's an...

Picking up on a thread of conversation in the comments section from Matt's last post , I want to briefly address the issue of Israel...

For those who missed them, check out Andrew Sullivan's piece this morning on the bind into which the eventual UN vote on a Palestinian ...

I'm not a very good chess player. Charitably, I'll assume it's because I haven't spent enough time in front of a chess board...

No, I'm not talking about reenacting a German civil war (not sure what that would be - the Thirty Years War maybe?) but about Germans re...

As long as we're in a period of semi-dormancy here at FPW, allow me to veer off topic and into domestic politics a bit. With the coming ...

As a quick note, we're currently doing the legwork of getting the new site up and running. It will be amazing and stupendous and surpass...

Back in January, in response to some of the initial unrest in Tunisia, I wrote that formal prosecutions of Middle Eastern autocrats struck ...

Eric Martin has a quick piece over at the Progressive Realist arguing that, by the standards of America's own cyber doctrine, the Stuxn...

I'm still not entirely sure what path John Huntsman sees to the Republican nomination. After spending two years as the Obama-appointed a...

I don't have many regrets from my undergraduate days. Would've been nice to go skiing a bit more often. Kind of wish I'd spent s...

If anyone has been missing Disunion , the New York Times ' ongoing series chronicling the breakup of the Union on the eve of the Civil W...

I must say, if I were the editor of a local news organization and some wingnut wrote me a letter advocating ethnic cleansing in the United S...

Look, I get that when someone you know/admire/respect comes under public fire, there's a natural instinct to take their side, to look fo...

Blogger, it would seem, senses that FP Watch will soon be moving to a hosting service and content management system that doesn't suck at...

I don't share Ali Abuminah's reflexive skepticism toward the very concept of a Palestinian state, nor do I generally share his persp...

Because of Blogger is bad at basically everything, this post was inexplicably deleted. I have no desire to rewrite it, but you can find it o...

Stanley Fish had a piece yesterday addressing the CUNY-Kushner controversy . As seems to be his wont, Fish argues that, contrary to some cl...

A couple of notes. First off, the new site, bigger and better and upgraded in every way, will be up soon. Really. We promise. Meanwhile, I...

Some readers have no doubt heard about the dustup caused when CUNY declined to give a planned honorary degree to playwright Tony Kushner ba...