Barack Obama went out of his way to create the impression that he was a new kind of political leader — more honest, less cynical and less relentlessly calculating than most. This is why so many of Senator Obama’s strongest supporters are uneasy,...

Five Russian women made it into the fourth round of The Championships at Wimbledon last week, including three of the top ten seeds in the tournament. Just two made it out. Four of those five players (#4 Kuznetsova, #5 Dementieva, pictured above, #8...

How would you like it if you opened the Instablogs home page and found there a post written by a contributor which accused you, totally falsely, of being a child molester with numerous convictions for that offense who just did it again last week. ...

Not long ago one of Instablogs’ most unspeakably ignorant and dishonest contributors, Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo of New York City, wrote a post in which he attacked the people of the South for having too many guns and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia...

Britain’s security services have identified Russia as the third most serious threat facing the country, it has emerged before Gordon Brown’s first meeting with President Medvedev.

The following is my partial translation of an article from the Russian newspaper Kommersant (”The Merchant”) which appeared on July 3, 2008. In Chechnya, the first mass grave has been discovered of civilian victims of Russia’s...

July 4th is American “Independence Day.” So it’s fitting to use this opportunity to find out a bit more about how Americans think. It has been observed: “The Battleground Poll is the most unbiased of all polls. It is a...

Marcos Moulitsas Publisher — The Daily Kos Dear Marcos, I read in your ultra left-wing blog The Daily Kos that, even though you bear a hatred for Republicans that borders on pathology, you have still decided to withhold a $2,000 campaign...

The nature and extent of Barack Obama’s personal corruption becomes ever clearer as the murky details of his recent purchase of a multi-million-dollar mansion (six bedrooms, four fireplaces, a four-car garage and 5 1/2 baths, a double steam...

One of the best sources of information about Russia’s troubles with its breakaway provinces of Chechnya and Igushetia is the Prague Watchdog website. You know they’re doing their job because they routinely come under cyber attack from...