Stephen Walt makes at least a few good points on the costs of the Afghanistan escalation/occupation. First, it will end up costing more than advertised in real dollars when all is said and done. Wars always do. Second, there are serious opportunity costs that rarely enter the equation. Health care reform and other domestic [...]
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In the aftermath of Obama’s big speech on Afghanistan, Judah Grunstein observed that the prospective plan as enunciated had something for everyone – as well as the potential to disappoint all listeners. That was my immediate take as well – not that it was a unique or particularly insightful observation. This push/pull was probably not unintentional, either, as [...] Following up on a recent analysis of the stimulus - which highlighted the stimulative effects of infrastructure projects – this Louis Uchitelle article makes another important point: For the first time in memory, the nation has no outsize public works project under way. The Big Dig, with its three and a half miles of underground highways channeling traffic beneath [...] |
Blake Hounshell (aka praktike), our co-founder and main man, is managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine. He's now reporting on the Egyptian Revolution from Cairo. 
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