by Charles Cameron | Mar 25, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — if we omit all mention of the Qur’an, will the jihad perhaps disappear, you think? ] . On Friday, Oct. 29, 2004, just before the 2004 US Presidential Election, a videotaped speech by Osama bin Laden was released online and variously...
by Jonathan Powers | Mar 19, 2013 | Monitor
Ed. note: Click here to see the timeline of President Obama's promise to end the war in Iraq and support service members as they return home. Ten years ago my US Army unit was returning from our final training exercise in preparation for deploying in support of...
by Chris Kang | Mar 8, 2013 | Monitor
In October 2011, President Obama nominated Magistrate Judge Patty Shwartz to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Judge Shwartz is widely respected, having earned the highest possible rating from the American Bar Association –...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 16, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on the difficulties that may be posed when “reading” graphics ] . ** The question I want to ask in this post is: how much can you safely read into a political cartoon? Here is the particular cartoon I have in mind: It was...
by editor | May 1, 2008 | Language, Sensemaking
by Steven R. Corman Last week I noted that the U.S. had decided to stop calling the Bad Guys “jihadis.” Well as Jeffrey Imm over at CT Blog points out, there’s just one little problem:  Apparently the State Department and the President...
