Jonathan Schell
Jonathan Schell, the author of <i>The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger</i>, was a fellow at <i>The Nation Institute</i> and a visiting fellow at Yale University.
Jonathan Schell, the author of <i>The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger</i>, was a fellow at <i>The Nation Institute</i> and a visiting fellow at Yale University.
Increasingly, the US Republican Party, once a fairly normal political party, has granted itself a license to live in an alternate reality – one in which Barack Obama is a Kenyan-born Muslim and global… read more
After the second debate between US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, his supporters celebrated the return of the "old" Obama of 2009. But that Obama is gone forever, r… read more
If the upcoming talks with Iran on the fate of its nuclear program fail, and military action against the Islamic Republic becomes more likely, no one should be surprised. Over the past decade, a new k… read more
The uncomfortable reality underlying the British phone-hacking scandal and its penumbra of corruption and appalling cruelty is that too many people want what Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is offer… read more
The American right – the party of Fox News, the Tea Party, and, increasingly, of the Republican Party itself – are no longer conservatives, but radicals. Nothing illustrates this more starkly than the… read more
What is uncanny about the current US debate about Afghanistan is the degree to which it displays continuity with the debate about the Vietnam war, and the Obama administration knows it. Lyndon Johnson… read more
Many of Robert McNamara’s critics argue that, despite his belated admission that the Vietnam War was wrong, he stopped short of full understanding, that he sought to hold fast to claims of noble inten… read more
The recent US intelligence estimate on Iran's nuclear weapons program reduces the risk that America will attempt military intervention. But, with Iran having already mastered the hardest part of build… read more
