Wiretap: Not a game, managing U.S. role in world
The Obama line that “we don’t have a strategy yet” for what to do with ISIS in Syria has become a punch line because pundits and pols have a cartoonish understanding of America’s role in the world.
Wiretap: Fighting and infighting over ISIS in Syria
The Daily Beast explains why Barack Obama’s we-have-no-strategy line means that there is no strategy yet on what to do about ISIS in Syria. The real fighting going on is within the Obama inner circle.
Gas patch resident fracking concerns not going away any time soon
Coloradans living in the northern Front Range gas patch are moving forward with the movement to wrest greater control over drilling in their cities and towns, despite recent events.
Wiretap: No strategy can work in Syria
Fred Kaplan writes in Slate that although everyone hates ISIS the United States should not bomb ISIS in Syria, not unless there’s a coalition army to support there. The only winner would be Bashar Al Assad.
Evangelicals push from the right for immigration reform with ‘The Stranger’ documentary
Generally conservative Catholic and Evangelical groups may have more success persuading Republican voters and politicians to take another look at immigration reform.
Wiretap: A deadly ambush in Iraq?
It looks as if the Americanization of the fighting in Iraq, and possibly in Syria, is beginning in earnest. The United States is putting together a broad coalition of allies and will begin bombing in Northern Iraq, the New York Times writes.
Wiretap: Bullets to ballots?
On the day of Michael Brown’s funeral, Jelani Cobb wonders whether bullets will lead to ballots, as they did in the 1960s.
Oklahoma sued over botched execution
Oklahoma state officials need to stop shrouding information about its executions, according to a lawsuit filed today.
The suit, filed by The Oklahoma Observer...
Wiretap: The costs of war
Nearly everyone seems to agree that the threat of the Islamic State is as real as its brutality. But Brian Fishman writes that if...
Wiretap: On Ferguson, where are the rest of the Democrats?
We understood the difficulties Barack Obama faced in addressing race and police in Ferguson, Mo., and how he had to tread carefully. But where...