Bite the Hand that Feeds You … a Little Bit
With Asia holding "most of our paper," how much is Obama pushing vs. colluding with China on human rights?
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Bow Gate
On President Obama's Bow to the Japanese Emperor, An Academic Friend Writes That Both the Left and the Right Are Wrong (AP)
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Obama’s Family Photograph
Although the right might run with it as "Obama as 'furner"," I like this "family photograph" of Obama in Singapore at his first APEC summit.
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Fall of the Wall + 20: Promises, Promises
If the "fall of the Berlin Wall" anniversary images deliver a huge nostalgia payoff, it's not like the West matches the build up of the promised land.
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Look of Oppressed: About the Same, Except a Lot Less Blurrier
The dance of the native and foreign worker? Timeless.
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But He Really Hasn’t Done Anything Yet — Right? (#2)
Looking further at Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize, especially regarding the perception of America in the Islamic world.
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Afghanistan Update: In a Bind
With the war in Afghanistan at the top of the list of political footballs this week, I'm curious about this photo on the cover of the new TIME.
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The "T" Word
As Western nations negotiate with Iran over nuclear issues, we're suddenly a long way from "Bush World," and the refusal to talk to members of the so-called "Axis of Evil."
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Photographer Alan Chin's Letter from China
Photographer Alan Chin on the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Communist revolution.
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Nazis Yes, Neda No
As the U.S. prepares to sit down with Iran to press for nuclear sanctions, I'm still thinking about Netanyahu waving Nazi floor plans of Auschwitz at the U.N. last week.
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Which End Is Up?
It's hard to trust we've really got a "new partner" in applying Iran sanctions when such goofiness only reinforce who's really is running the show.
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Back At The Center of the World
Less than a year after America and the world were finally extricated from the tyranny of George "Coalition of One" Bush, his distain for diplomacy, and his abuse of the United Nations, we saw a historic event take place situating the U.S. at the center of international civility.
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Ahmadinejad: Between You, Me and the Teleprompters
It's at once a silent and deafening image set up by a delegate walk-out prior to Ahmadinejad's General Assembly speech yesterday.
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Iraq’s UN-doing
I don't know why the 2003 bombing that killed Sergio Vieira de Mello and 22 other U.N. personnel, and instantly spelled the end of the U.N. mission in Iraq, is so personal to me. Reminded of it, it seems I can almost taste dust in my mouth.
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Afghan Strategy: Hell If I Know
While McChrystal is focused on why an attack on a few Taliban-hijacked fuel tankers went so wrong, check the map, folks, check the map.
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Middle East Body Language
Given Netanyahu's foot dragging on negotiations, the public handshake between Obama, Bibbi and Abbas in New York today offered something of a reflection on the political dynamics.
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