Get Reid’s RSS Feed12:00 AM 06/01/2010
I can understand the outrage. (more)
Reid Smith - Reid Smith has worked as a research associate specializing on U.S. policy in the Middle East and as a political speechwriter. He will join the University of Delaware's Department of Political Science and International Relations as a graduate associate and doctoral candidate in fall 2010.
12:00 AM 05/07/2010
Not since Tim O’Brien introduced us to Lieutenant Jimmy Cross’s platoon in the “The Things They Carried,” has an author so successfully captured the primitive experience of combat as Sebastian Junger in his new classic, “WAR.” (more)
12:00 AM 04/23/2010
The burqa is many things to many people. (more)
12:00 AM 03/19/2010
Iraq’s Political Stalemate: Democracy’s Endgame? (more)
12:00 AM 02/24/2010
Speaking on Valentine’s Day before the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emphasized the importance of bringing new harmony to the to the wearying ballad of Arab-Israeli peace efforts. (more)
12:00 AM 02/17/2010
Last week, South Africans took pause to commemorate the defining chapter in their country’s history. Some twenty years ago, on Feb. 11, 1990, Nelson Mandela emerged from the Victor Vester Prison after 27 years of political captivity. His famed “long walk” back to public life foreshadowed the end of apartheid—the vicious social framework that had segregated and disenfranchised black South Africans for decades. Mandela offered his countrymen a “rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world,” and dedicated himself to making that dream a reality. (more)
12:00 AM 02/11/2010
In this case, the calm before the storm may be contrived. (more)
12:00 AM 02/10/2010
We might have known that come election time in Iraq, it’s rarely the voting that counts. (more)
