"On the fourth Armenian Remembrance Day of his presidency, President Obama has for the fourth time in a row broken his promise..."

"... to the Armenian community to use the word 'genocide' in describing what happened at the hands of the Turks roughly a centu...

Whatever happened to Darfur?

Have you noticed that we don't notice it anymore? IN THE COMMENTS: mesquito says: Darfur has contracted herpes and is hiding from the oz...

"Obama's use of Meds Yeghern 'is an elegant dodge to avoid using the 'g-word'..."

"... but the substance of what he states about what happened gives no comfort to those who cling to the Turkish official version... ...

How Radovan Karadzic hid himself.

With a new look, he "lived a strikingly public life practicing alternative medicine and writing for a health magazine" in Belgrade...

Does the U.N. have a duty to undertake a military intervention in Burma?

Matthew Lee explains the "responsibility to protect." Military intervention is the most extreme option, but there is a policy, ad...

Obama is letting Wright overpower him.

Dana Milbank says that Wright's speech today may have doomed the Obama candidacy. He summarizes the Q&A session pithily: His claim ...

"There is no repentance on the part of The New York Times. There is no integrity when it comes to The Times."

Writes the Reverend Jeremiah Wright to Jodi Kantor of the NYT in a letter published at Time.com: Out of a two-hour conversation with you a...

"We have acquired this responsibility..."

Christopher Hitchens on Iraq: [T]he many disappointments and crimes and blunders... do not relieve us of a responsibility that is either ins...

"If I am a conservative, and I detest many of the things this conservative administration is doing..."

"... then what kind of conservative am I and what kind of conservatives are they?" That -- according to David Brooks -- is the qu...

Orhan Pamuk!

Orhan Pamuk wins the Nobel Prize for literature. Pamuk was charged with the crime of "insulting Turkishness," charges that were d...

At the genocide museum in Suleimaniya, Kurdistan.

Michael Totten reports: When you enter the museum you will walk through a long and winding hallway. The walls are covered with mirror shards...

Turkish ironies: the Orhan Pamuk trial.

Yesterday, I wrote about the trial of Orhan Pamuk, and today, I see the trial has been put on hold. Perhaps the irony impressed the court:...

Did European witch-hunting kill 9 million?

I've been under the impression that was the real number, ever since I read Gyn/Ecology about 15 years ago. But I see here, that number i...

Hitchens on "The Daily Show" and in The Weekly Standard.

Did you see Christopher Hitchens on "The Daily Show" show this week? It was a rather strange little interview in which Jon Stewart...

The President's movies.

Elisabeth Bumiller writes about President Bush's movie watching habits and reveals that, after he saw "Hotel Rwanda," he invi...