Chris Bray

Security and science are an old, natural couple, mutually reinforcing one another in the fight to extract resources and power from fearful societies. Shameful examples are easy enough: medicine and the emerging field of microbiology helped to explain that Filipinos were dirty ...

George W. Bush’s fourth term is going about as well as could be expected. The United States is finalizing an agreement — not without some obstacles — to keep troops and the federal checkbook in Afghanistan through at least 2024. The military tribunals at ...

News flash: Hapless, blundering, useless fools think it’s very dangerous to tell the public what they actually do. Al-Qaeda is a healthy, thriving, voting-age young adult. Born in the late 1980s, the movement bombed American embassies in 1998, attacked an American warship ...

The thing itself is actual. It exists. It has substance, meaning, effects. And you wouldn’t know it from the discussion in the public sphere. The Affordable Care Act is crumbling in stages, mismanaged and apparently unmanaged into a state of accelerating decay. The ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) can move the world, if you give him a big enough lever and a place to stand. Just ask him. Objecting to the interim deal with Iran that trades modest sanctions relief for limits on that country’s uranium enrichment, Graham told CNN that the Obama ...

Lobster and oysters? Oh, how I hate this buffet—so hard to decide. I guess we’ll just talk over our choices with the buffet concierge, again. What a rough life. Congressional aides are also struggling with the health care exchanges, the poor things. They are, the New ...

A few months ago, Politico announced an aggressive move into “long-form journalism,” that great mystical chimera of the magazine editor’s imagination: an animal often hunted, but rarely sighted. For people familiar with the site’s editorial ...

The undertaker is measuring the Affordable Care Act for its box, and the burgeoning failure should be taken as precisely what it is: a failure of a progressive policy model built in and from the 1930s, the moment of the Big Machine. It’s not a failure of a ...