Okay, some more details on the agreement. In Spanish here, in English here. There will be no amnesty. That’s a good thing in my opinion, since this is hardly post-apartheid South Africa and everybody involved exhibited poor and likely illegal judgment. These people suggest that Honduras has a long way to go toward “significant constitutional reform that will lead to [...]
From the NYT: According to Mr. Micheletti, the accord reached late Thursday would establish a unity government and a verification commission to ensure that its conditions are carried out. It would also create a truth commission to investigate the events of the past few months. The agreement also reportedly asks the international community to recognize the results of the elections [...]
Yglesias makes a good point: Just because the opium trade is a major source of funding for the Taliban doesn’t mean that cracking down on “the opium trade” hurts the Taliban. If I deal heroin here in DC than [sic] a crackdown on “heroin dealers” would be bad for me if and only if I actually get shut down. If, [...]
This Wednesday morning the New York Times reported that the brothers of the Afghani president, Hamid Karzai, were on the CIA payroll. “Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according [...]
The New York House special election is causing a rift in the GOP. A number of republicans are making very pointed stands of siding with the Conservative Party’s nominee Doug Hoffman over the GOP’s nominee Dede Scozzafava. Sen. Santorum was the latest to weigh in. “In endorsing Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman in the Nov. 3 contest, Santorum joined former [...]
Negotiations in Honduras have broken down yet again, as the Micheletti government passes a Zelaya-imposed deadline. According to Mayra Mejía, a negotiator for Zelaya’s side, “The fundamental point is the reinstatement of president Zelaya and for this, there was no political will.” Once again, it is the return of José Manuel Zelaya Rosales to office that the negotiators care about, [...]
One of the most awesome things about attending Penn is the incredible speakers that we pull in. I do, of course, encourage everyone to take in the local culture and to go to panels with lower-profile professors and speakers. But it’s still cool to see a man as busy and influential as Larry Summers talk for an hour and a [...]
Today the Afghani election commission ordered a runoff after a recount of the ballots showed that neither candidate reached 50%. What’s really unbelievable about this is that Karzai didn’t simply strong arm his way to victory, not that he didn’t try. A lot of the polling numbers and information that we received after the election were eerily similar to those [...]
Since home for me is DC, it’s very convenient to take the train back and forth over breaks, and I end up taking about 6-8 train rides a year. On every single train ride that I take (with the exception of Christmas), I intend to do work of some kind. And every single time, I end up talking to the [...]
A couple days back, Josh Patashnik posted a moderately lengthy reply to Matt Yglesias’s and Ezra Klein’s ongoing kvetches about the irrationality of our current state system. They think states don’t make sense; Patashnik thinks they do. I think the debate hasn’t really parsed out the issues it wants to deal with quite enough, so here goes. There are, essentially, [...]
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