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There is a conflagration in the Arab world right now. The wave of popular protest unleashed by the self-immolation of a poor,…
Rahul Mahajan
Rahul Mahajan was born in Philadelphia, PA, in 1969. He received his Bachelor`s in Mathematics from Caltech in 1992 and will receive his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin in August 2002. He has been an Austin resident for most of his life, starting when his family moved here in 1977 and continuing except for brief periods when he went away to school.
I listened to the State of the Union speech. What I heard, though, was not President Obama’s string of irritating platitudes, but…
I just read a fascinating RAND report titled “An Economic Analysis of the Financial Records of al-Qa’ida in Iraq.” By some not-so…
Pentagon general counsel Jeh C. Johnson recently created a stir on the left with a speech he gave on January 13 for “Martin Luther…
After Jared Loughner’s attempted assassination of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and massacre of six other people, including a nine-year-old girl, everyone is talking…
As the one-year anniversary of the Katrina disaster approaches, it’s worth taking some time to reflect on the things it hasn’t changed.…
One day in November 2005, Marines in Haditha decided to take revenge for the death of one of their comrades from an…
Iraq has just gazed into the abyss and recoiled — for now. Last Wednesday’s destruction of the beautiful golden dome of the…
Surprising everyone, including themselves, Hamas won the recent Palestinian Legislative Council elections in a landslide, picking up 74 of 132 seats, compared…
The latest issue of the Lancet, the well-known British medical journal, contains a shocking report on mortality in the Democratic Republic of…