Tomorrow, Wisconsinites head to the voting booths for the primary election to determine who will face off in the high profile gubernatorial recall. Governor Scott Walker faces little competition from within the Republican Party but will face strong opposition from angry, energized Democrats in the general.Ahead of the primary voting, Via Meadia checked the odds at Intrade, […]

An Indian Supreme Court-appointed amicus curiae (friend of the court) reported on Monday that Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat state, can and should be prosecuted for his role in the 2002 riots there, in which more than a thousand people were killed. Raju Ramachandran, the amicus curiae, rejected the findings of a Special Investigative Team that said Modi and others should […]

In March, we received some heartening news from Harvard: After decades of absence, ROTC was finally allowed back on campus following the repeal of the Military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. Now Harvard and its Ivy League peers are moving further in their rapprochement with the military. A new feature in the New York Times discusses […]

Edward Luce writes for the Financial Times, and he doesn’t like what sees when he looks at the US economy. The current recovery, writes Luce, is anemic and likely to stay that way; worse, for many households, the pain is increasing. The median household income is considerably lower than it was in June 2009, when […]

Bo who? Not content to oust Bo Xilai from power, the Chinese Communist Party has dusted off its copy of 1984 as it orchestrates a campaign to whitewash any trace of the former chief of Chongqing. Exhibits that honored Bo and outlined his achievements have been shut down. Chongqing television stations have ceased airing commercial-free Maoist propaganda […]

Esteemed professor and fellow AI board member Eliot Cohen recently appeared on the Hugh Hewitt Show to discuss Obama’s Afghanistan speech last week.The interview is worth reading in full, and emphasizes a few core Via Meadia points, including the need for the President to do a better job explaining to the country why we are […]

Turkey has been the most significant outside actor in the one-year-old conflict in Syria, hosting thousands of refugees and providing support to the rebels. But thus far it has not involved itself more directly in the uprising, biding its time as the situation develops.Recent remarks by Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan suggest that this waiting game […]

Late last night, world financial markets looked like toast; Asian markets were in free fall for a while and European stocks were sharply down at the open. (London is closed today for what the British call a Bank Holiday.) Falling futures prices in the US made it look as if we, too, were going to […]

The dawn was anything but golden for everyone but the Greek Nazis today.  Although they got less than ten percent of the vote, it was enough to get seats in Parliament for the first time. The party’s charter declares that “only Aryans in blood and Greeks in descent can be candidate members of Golden Dawn.” Their flag […]

France gave the modern world the political idea of progress, and even today the French still ardently believe their politics must be both trailblazing and without precedent. Thus, in his successful run for the presidency, François Hollande could stake his fortunes on “changement.” He modelled France’s first get-out-the-vote “ground game” on the Obama 2008 playbook, and […]