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The Price of Politics
By Justin Schuster The value of a human life is quantifiable: $162 million in annual arms sales, $550 million for combat training jets, $4 billion in defense contracts, and regional geopolitical interests. On February 4, after two days of indiscriminate violence, over 300 lay dead in the Syrian city of [...]
Dr. No
Dr. No is a term that stems from the very first James Bond film, in which the British spy is sent to Jamaica to investigate the death of a fellow secret agent. His investigation leads him to the base of Dr. Julius No, Bond’s eponymous evil counterpart. In politics, however, [...]
Confronting Corruption in the Developing World
By Josef Goodman, Molly Ma, and Jay Pabarue THE penthouse of power is becoming more crowded. The United States may remain the “indispensable nation,” but the unipolar world of the Clinton years is long gone. The next few decades will see the “rise of the rest.” The ascent of Brazil, [...]
The Super PAC Election
By Eric Stern THE sun beat down on the crowd outside the Federal Election Commission headquarters, but the scores of assembled people seemed unfazed. Instead, they stared transfixed at the man they had been waiting for hours to see. “Some people have cynically asked, ‘Is this some kind of joke?’” [...]
American Interventionism and the Tragedy of Foreign Policy
By Noah Remnick SINCE World War I, every American president has had to confront the potential agonies, moral uncertainties, and quagmires of military intervention abroad. Certainly, the price of intervention weighs on Barack Obama even as he pulls out troops from Iraq and vows to do the same from Afghanistan. [...]
