by Adam Garber | Aug 31, 2012 | Monitor
Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. It's the summer's special Mailbag Edition of West Wing Week, featuring Elizabeth Olson, Director of Presidential Correspondence. This week we're...
by Mary Kaszynski | Aug 31, 2012 | Monitor
By Mary Kaszynski and Mitchell Freddura Every time the International Atomic Energy Agency issues a new report on Iran, news media and political pundits often end up misreading it. To counter the flawed interpretations that are sure to follow the latest report, ASP’s...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Aug 31, 2012 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis Puck: “Oh, what fools these mortals be. – Act II, Scene II, William Shakespeare’s Midsummer’s Night Dream. If just about everything and anything could go wrong for the Romney campaign this summer – except for the continuation of...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 30, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — news bulletin on Mahdist messianism, with a muddling mixing of metpahors ] . prominent ISCI leader Jalal al-din Ali al-Sagheer, via Rudaw Dated yesterday, Hevidar Ahmed‘s piece on the Kurdish news site Rudaw, Shia Leader: The Awaited...
by Noah Shachtman | Aug 30, 2012 | Monitor
Osama bin Laden films an undated propaganda video. Photo: CIA Before SEAL Team 6 was sent into Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden, the troops were given a cover story, in case the mission went south. They were supposed to say that they were deep in Pakistani territory,...
