One of the most fulfilling things I’ve ever done was to leave a hugely trafficked and successful job at TPM, an organization I loved working for and admire as an alum, and join my friend Laura McGann in a crazy scheme to launch an innovative online national-news organization. For the past two and a half [...]

THE BEACH — So I’m going to break a promise to myself because of the enormity of the Gaza flotilla raid. This Andrew Exum post does a great job of framing several important currents in Israel and the U.S.-Israeli relationship. I want to try to connect them. First is a point about strategy. Since the collapse [...]

Tomorrow I leave for an annual vacation I take with my friends to the middle of nowhere. It couldn’t have come sooner: as you may have noticed, I’m writing less frequently and I haven’t been particularly satisfied with the stuff I’ve managed to produce. Actually, vacation could have come much sooner. So I’ll be attempting [...]

If my last post or my last piece didn’t impress you, sorry. Yesterday was an epically bad day, and today I’m trying to put it behind me by spending most of the day in transit, heading far out of the city. One of my many goals for the next three days is to blog as [...]

I used to open mail for the listings section at New York Press when I was 19 years old as a way to get my foot in the door in this industry. Ten years later, this happens. Thanks Terry! (And thank you, Lisa LeeKing, for letting me open your mail for free. And thank you, [...]

I’ll be on Fresh Air with Terry Gross tomorrow talking about Guantanamo, Omar Khadr, military commissions, the ejections of Paul and Carol and Steve and Michelle, etc. We taped the segment today and I was nervous as hell — she’s Terry Gross, after all, and everything you’d heard about her unparalleled interviewing skills is true. [...]

I’ve got a thing this morning reporting on the director of national intelligence. It’s going to eat up my morning and I’ll be probably without internet access during that time. Since I didn’t plan ahead to recruit any guests or pre-schedule any posts (except for one), that means this blog will be dark until probably [...]

This isn’t final by any stretch, but it’s looking like I’ll be going back to Guantanamo Bay for two weeks toward the end of the month to observe and report on proceedings in two military commissions. Lots of things need to be worked out, so I don’t want to make any commitments I can’t fulfill, [...]

Thanks to everyone who came to Laughing Man tonight. I was touched by the packed crowd and everyone’s enthusiasm/indulgence of our wonk-nerd complexes (particularly Julian’s and mine). Matt Klokel of Fantom Comics is the best Comic Book Guy in the game. Now that I’m in love with Marvel’s iPhone app I don’t know how long [...]

A reminder: if you like comic books and politics, why not come out tomorrow at 6 p.m. to the Laughing Man Tavern near the White House to hear Julian Sanchez, Tom McClusky, Marvel’s Mike O’Sullivan and myself tie the two together, while we get drunk? There’s a very high likelihood I’ll say something I’ll regret [...]