Reid Smith

In the year 8 AD, the Dalmatae, that ancient Illyrian tribe of the eastern Adriatic, fell to the Roman general…

Mitt Romney’s recent revelation that a nuclear Iran — not Russia — is the United States’ “number one national security…

I hate anecdotal evidence. It’s my single greatest annoyance. This goes for those who cherry-pick comments, magnify innocuous incidents, quote…

Today, around 2PM, Mitt Romney is addressing the annual conference of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He’s expected to lay out the…

Yesterday, writing for Foreign Policy, Joshua Keating reviewed Romney’s “Short List” currently at play in the veepstakes. Six names, now…

“They don’t deserve it. What they’ve done is presumably earned it by the amount of money they’ve laid out in…

Kofi Annan has invited Iran to join the adult table at the Syria talks. This is the UN envoy’s latest…

In a 1998 piece for Harper’s titled “Goodbye to All That: Why Americans Are Not Taught History,” Christopher Hitchens juxtaposed…

Way back in February I expanded on a report in the Christian Science Monitor that suggested al Qaeda in Iraq…

A close friend of mine from Egypt once told me a joke that became popular around the time of Hosni…