Security in Afghanistan Crumbles as Counterinsurgency Fails

By: Sunday September 12, 2010 9:11 pm

As President Obama’s strategy review for Afghanistan commences, let’s hope he’s balancing the information coming to him from his happy-talking generals with some independent news reading of his own.

Who’s the Huckster for This High-Interest War?

By: Wednesday August 25, 2010 5:00 am

On college campuses, credit card companies entice naive undergrads into signing up for super-high-interest-rate credit cards by giving away “perceived high-value items” like t-shirts or coffee mugs. They’re called perceived high value items because they really aren’t worth as much as people assume. Their only purpose is to distract from the terrible terms in the [...]

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