The Debate Link

The Guardian has an interesting article about a scientific journal editor, David Curtis, who stepped down from his post after his attempt to...

The UN Security Council today declined to extend an arms embargo against Iran, over furious protests by the United States, Israel, and Arab ...

I'm on the job hunt this fall, and "Ma Vector" is my official unofficial callsign (it's a long story). * * * Iranian j...

Our apartment's water heater is being replaced tomorrow. That means my one true joy in life -- long, languid, hot showers -- will also h...

A small fishing village of about 20,000 in southern China has effectively revolted , chasing out its Communist Party leadership and resistin...

I've been on a bit of a gamer kick recently. Borrowed Mass Effect, beat that the other day. Then I pre-ordered the new Assassin's Cr...

The Chinese Restaurant Association sends thanks to the Jewish people for our Christmas-day patronage. We, in turn, thank the Chinese Restau...

Long story. * * * Great post by Ta-Nehisi Coates regarding his experience when his partner got pregnant. Leon Wieseltier on the pro-Israel ...

I had some reflexive snark reaction to this story about how the business of producing the oh-so-chic keffiyehs has been completely outsourc...

Utah Governor Jon Huntsman (R), who had been carving out a niche for himself as the leader of the "not insane" wing of the GOP, ha...

There seems to be something about human rights conferences and South Africa that just doesn't mix. In the wake of South Africa's ref...

Discussing the flare up over possible National Intelligence Council chair Chas Freeman, M.J. Rosenberg writes something that deserves some ...

Matt Yglesias presses for DC statehood -- even going so far to demarcate the borders of a new "federal" district which would have...

I'm enjoying watching The Olympics, but the way that the television coverage has been such a pro-China love-fest is really sickening to ...

Henry Farrell of Crooked Timber has an interesting post up about the growing political saliency of the Olympic Games, as demonstrated by th...

Popular outrage over auxilary police beating to death a citizen journalist who was taking pictures of them beating yet other Chinese citize...

In China, anyway, where the high court has announced it will hear a case regarding forced abortion. To be sure, the case they cite is rathe...

As so often is the case, my quote of the day comes from quite some time ago. This one comes from a Chinese Newspaper (one year prior to the ...

Reuters has an article up on the inability of women to penetrate the upper echelons of the Chinese Communist Party. Mao Zedong was, publicl...