Description: Andrew Sullivan dishes. Includes Andrew's Daily Dish, interviews, recent articles about the war, homosexuality, culture, politics, faith, and people.
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4 hours 1 min ago
The tabloid headlines - and who can blame them? - are reporting "the oldest stash ever." And it does indeed seem like the cannabis found in a Chinese tomb going back 2,700 years is legit. But this is what struck...
4 hours 27 min ago
Nir Rosen reports from Kabul: “I’m not optimistic,” a longtime NGO official with more than a dozen years’ experience in the country told me. He said the confidence of the Taliban today is beginning to resemble the swagger of the...
4 hours 35 min ago
Maniratuba, Brazil, 6.30 pm.
5 hours 5 min ago
The Bush-backing blogosphere took the discrediting of one Newsweek story to proclaim that religious freedom was meticulously respected at Guantanamo Bay, Bagram, Abu Ghraib, Camp Cropper, and elsewhere in the black sites world of the CIA. But the more testimony...
5 hours 6 min ago
Dale Carpenter thinks Prop 8's passage is stalling the momentum of marriage equality in New York and DC. There will, almost certainly, be a pause. But I don't see this as fatal or even that troubling. We have marriage rights...
5 hours 26 min ago
Yglesias worries: What is unclear at this point is whether Clinton joining the Obama team means that Clinton has gained faith in Obama’s approach, or that Obama has lost faith in his own. The very fact of Obama’s election would...
5 hours 41 min ago
Juan Cole prays that India doesn't repeat Bush's mistakes in the war on terror: War with Pakistan over the Mumbai attacks would be a huge error. President Asaf Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani certainly did not have...
6 hours 15 min ago
Blake Hounshell analyzes the tension between India and Pakistan: ...one can already see public anger in India leading political developments in a direction the terrorists wanted. Some Indian politicians have been less than careful in saying the terrorists were sent...
6 hours 39 min ago
Walid Phares interviews Venkatesan Vembu of the Daily News and Analysis of India. What was the motive for the attack?: At one level, to instill shock and awe worldwide, much like the 9/11 attacks. On the regional level, there may...
7 hours 7 min ago
In some ways, it's the biggest and toughest first decision Obama will have to make. From my Sunday Times column: The evidence we now have, undisputed evidence, proves already that war crimes were indeed committed – by the president and...
7 hours 31 min ago
If you are a member of parliament and get access to secret documents revealing that the government is immensely incompetent, get ready to be arrested. The outrage is just beginning: The arrest of Damian Green last Thursday, his subsequent detention...
8 hours 22 min ago
And Alaskans are beginning to notice: It’s now been three weeks since the election. And Sarah has yet to set foot in Juneau. Next week she’s off to Georgia. And from there up to Philly. By the time she gets...
Mon, 2008-12-01 03:39
Posters noticed by a Dish reader in Paris this weekend. Sarkozy is nothing if not shameless.
Mon, 2008-12-01 03:30
Listen up: Look it's hard enough to satisfy the basic carnal needs--it's even harder to satisfy those needs, and satisfy the basic emotional and mental ones too. There is a good chance that your long-term relationship will one day fail....
Mon, 2008-12-01 03:03
Jason Kottke points to a list of recipes from Leningrad during the Nazi blockade. This is gut-wrenching: Soup from pets and domesticated animals Meat is ranked by taste in the following order: dog, guinea pig, cat, rat. Gut the carcass,...
Mon, 2008-12-01 02:37
Hilton, Iowa, 7.28 am.
Mon, 2008-12-01 02:21
Not all statesmen refuse to learn. Holbrooke: "[In 1995, McGeorge] Bundy began writing tortured notes to himself, often in the margins of his old memos — a sort of private dialogue with the man he had been 30 years earlier...
Mon, 2008-12-01 01:34
In case anyone is in any doubt what we're up against: Doctors working in a hospital where all the bodies, including that of the terrorists, were taken said they had not seen anything like this in their lives. "Bombay has...
Mon, 2008-12-01 01:30
It's crudely reductive, as even Neal Gabler is forced to concede. The American conservative era owes just as much to Goldwater's libertarianism and Reagan's pragmatic freedom agenda. It's also bundled up with Buckley's erudition, Gingrich's populism, and the first Bush's...
Mon, 2008-12-01 00:48
As Obama weighs how to move forward, the false dichotomy that argues that somehow retaining the Bush-Cheney torture regime makes us any safer is exploded by this kind of testimony from a leading interrogator in Iraq: Torture and abuse are...
