“Shocked and appalled” is the mildest of the reactions I’ve had to the charade that unfolded today at the Presidential Palace in Lebanon. Scientists have already published new research concluding that the maximum amount of hypocrisy one can be exposed to in a single day equates to one “U.S. Envoy ...
It is August 4th once more, marking five years since the people of Beirut awoke to the usual chaos of one of West Asia’s smallest yet busiest cities—only to have their lives violently and irreversibly shattered. A day of thunderous explosions, blinding smoke, and glass shards slicing through the air ...