Notes from Underground

The Economist's Democracy in America blog has a nice little piece on the reasoning behind why so many Americans deny that there is, in f...

This is a well-written - and rare - dispatch from Scott Horton, an American journalist visiting a former Stalinist gulag at Chon Tash in K...

Here is a compelling testimonial from the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan in 2002. It seems to be a pretty damning narrative of the...

Like I wrote, I'm still up in the air over this one. I think that the boundaries/number/size of states could be altered, especially in t...

An argument today for and against the continued utility of states, state government and US Senate representation by state. An interesting...

Nifty infographic and map on US and NATO troop levels in Afghanistan since 2001. FYI when the Taliban was overthrown at the end of 2001 ther...

Here is a stimulating profile of Guy Consolmagno, one of the Vatican's astronomers. Despite much of the controversy historically surrou...

Another interesting link: A Youtube video of a small, relatively inconequential portion of the police presence in Pittsburgh. Its basically...

If we can't do nation-building in Mexico, then why in Afghanistan? I think this essay pretty much succinctly sums up whats wrong with A...