A favorite pastime of American politicians of both parties is grandstanding on behalf of Israel to appease their pro-Israel benefactors. Republican pols, however, have an added incentive to support the Jewish state because a good chunk of their voting base is composed of ...read more

Flying too close to the sun. Image by Len Radin It now appears that the phone hacking scandal that is threatening to bring down the Murdoch empire in the UK is going transatlantic. If Murdoch thought things were going badly, he couldn't have been more wrong. From Politico: New ...read more