I won't be blogging for the next few days since the W and I are taking a little trip away to celebrate our first anniversary. But I don't feel that bad since I've given you enough to read over the last couple of days. I will be back online for either...

From the Poli Sci message board I linked to the other day: When I was a TA a while back, I got an unmemorable but adequate paper, gave it a B-. Student comes to my office, says "I have a concern about my grade. You gave it a B-, but my girlfriend...

For the vast majority of Pakistan’s history, its politics have been an elite-led phenomenon. There have been three actors in which have been of prime importance: the military, the land-owning feudal classes, and the business-owning industrialist...

I know the wisdom contained in the heading of this post will not be news to most readers, but please click on the right hand side of this page (under the "From the archives" section) for a post I wrote a year ago. It contained this gem: Zardari's...

A "senior U.S. official" says that American troops have conducted cross-border raids into Pakistani territory well before they were caught with their hand in the cookie jar in September 2008; to be precise, there had been three more between 2003 and...