Google Me In Baghdad

On April 22, in a meeting room located in Baghdad’s Green Zone, Scott Heiferman, chief executive of Meetup.com, and Jason Liebman, chief executive of how-to video site Howcast, sat down with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih for some coffee. It was one of their last meetings as part of a delegation of Read More

Iraq: Admit It’s a Complete Failure

Without getting straight to the Out-Now question, it seems obvious that everyone would be better off if the Bushies admitted the plain reality right now, The war is a giant failure. Misconceived, misguided, mis-everything’d&#151whatever, it isn’t working at all. (And yes, too, Bush should be impeached for incompetence).

The more pressure on Bush to make Read More

Uh-Oh-They’re Heeeere!

Call it a coming-out party for young Republicans.

On the final evening of the Republican National Convention, just minutes after George W. Bush gives his speech accepting his party’s nomination, the doors of the chic Gotham Hall on West 36th Street will be thrown open for a glitzy celebration of some of the Grand Old Read More

Bitter Baghdad Seeing Disaster As Rebels Rise

BAGHDAD-Even if you are a deaf person and an optimist, it would be hard not to hear the sound of the wheels coming off.

On Wednesday, March 31, four American contractors escorting a food-distribution convoy through the city of Falluja were killed by Iraqi insurgents, and crowds cheered as their charred bodies were mutilated, dismembered Read More