Category: Foreign Affairs

“He may be a son of a b*tch, but he’s our son of a b*tch.” You heard that quote a lot, particularly during the Cold War, but we’re getting a refresher course on what it really means today in Egypt. That’s not to say that Hosni Mubarak is “our son of a b*tch” in the […]

Traditionally, the American people have cared very little about foreign policy. In part, that’s because they assume that the experts that are handling it know exactly what they’re doing. Tragically, this is all too often a completely erroneous assumption. If you want to see a story that illustrates that, well wow, you really couldn’t do […]

Twitter’s all abuzz with the news that North Korea has launched artillery shells at a South Korea island, North Korea shot dozens of rounds of artillery onto a populated South Korean island near their disputed western border Tuesday, prompting South Korea to return fire and scramble fighter jets, military officials said. At least one South […]