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Barely 10 years after George W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished" moment, other promoters of the Iraq disaster might feel like singing, "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here." Michael Gordon, Thomas Friedman, now Bill Keller. Paging Judy Miller! The New York ...

Twenty-four hours ago, we posted Amb. Robert Hunter's analysis of the Syria question and his appeal to Obama to keep his nerve (backed by the US military leadership) and continue resisting attempts to drag the US even more deeply into Syria. He ...

Why, exactly, is it front-page news that President Obama avoided the word terror in his first remarks after the horror at the Boston marathon? Hardly any newspaper or network neglected to puzzle over this omission. Does anybody seriously think this ...

State Rep. Bill Keller. (David Maialetti / Staff Photographer) Two close associates of State Rep. William Keller - his former administrative aide, Lorraine DiSpaldo, and his longtime business partner, Mark Olkowski - pleaded guilty to federal fraud ...

Bill Keller recently wrote a glowing tribute to Alexey Navalny in which he straightforwardly asserted ("suggested" is far too mild a word) that everyone's favorite anti-corruption blogger and online activist is likely to be the next president of ...

As a guy who works with words for a living, I marvel at the gun lobby's gift for turning logic inside out. The bumper-sticker classic: Guns don't kill people, people kill people. The post-Newtown twist: The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun ...

The CIA's career shows essential intelligence has suffered from the paramilitary preoccupation Bill Keller My Times colleague Mark Mazzetti has a new book out that is getting a lot of attention. The Way of the Knife recounts the recent ...

Dot Earth: Climate Campaigners Try Flooding the (Comment) Zone April 8, 2013, 7:12 PM Bill Keller: Maggie and Gorby April 8, 2013, 5:38 PM Taking Note: The Senator From Paranoia April 8, 2013, 5:21 PM Ross Douthat: The Thatcher Legacy in Full April ...

, viewers in the Soviet Union turned on their TV sets and watched (Id bet no one turned it off) an astonishing spectacle. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, concluding a visit to Moscow, was pitted against three of the state-controlled media's most ...