Pajamas Media is exceptionally pleased to announce that Michelle Malkin’s groundbreaking multimedia blog HOT AIR has joined the Pajamas Media Network. HOT AIR has been one of the true pioneers of original opinion video on the internet. Ms. Malkin’s first blog – Michelle Malkin – has been part of the Pajamas network since its inception.
Largely ignored by our mainstream media, student demonstrations are continuing in Iran, protesting the often-violent presence of the pro-Islamic Regime Basij paramilitary forces on campus. This demonstration, with extraordinarily brave and moving speeches against the mullahs by students at Tehran's Polytechnic University (Amir Kabir), took place on May 28, 2007. Click HERE for an exclusive translation by Ardeshir Arian for Pajamas Media.

In his continuing series from his recent visit to Iraq, PJM's Richard Miniter takes us inside his reporter's notebook for Scenes from a War. Earlier reports here and here.
PJM's Paris editor is traveling the USA, reporting on the new Sarkozy mood in France, and claiming there is no real bread and butter to be found in the States. Well, nobody can be right 100% of the time....
Pajamas Media is pleased to announce that Jules Crittenden’s Forward Movement blog has joined the Pajamas network. Mr. Crittenden is a city editor of the Boston Herald and a frequent contributor to this site. Some of his recent articles for PJM are here and here.
UPDATE: Crittenden explains his sartorial choice.
How the Man Who Would Be Castro marked a new milestone on the path towards totalitarianism by shutting down the nation's most popular television station. He will keep at it until there is no free press left and no one to report the fact that it disappeared. By Fausta Wertz
In his second report from his recent trip to Iraq, Pajamas Media Washington Editor Richard Miniter explains "Why Is Northern Iraq Safe?" ... Richard's first report is here.
Victor Hanson, during a tour of Greece, takes a moment to eviscerate one day’s worth of the International Herald Tribune (AKA: “The New York Times Global edition.”) Among the IHT’s stories that draw his attention is, “A surreal human interest about a Muslim conference to end the negative Western image of Islam in the West (with no mention of suicide vests, IEDs, lunacy on the West Bank, in Iran, or Iraq, Sharia Law, polygamy etc.)” Read the rest at Victor Hanson’s Works & Days in PajamasXpress.
For the first time in 27 years, US diplomats met Monday with representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iranian-American filmmaker Ardeshir Arian analyzes for Pajamas Media the reasons that the Iranians are talking - and why we shouldn't fall into their trap.
By Ardeshir Arian
PJM's Richard Miniter interviews former "made man" Adullah Rahman al-Shamary - a possible "missing link" between Saddam and al Qaeda.
This is the first of a series of special reports for PJM from Miniter who has recently returned from Iraq.