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Kent State shooting

The newly unveiled May 4 Visitors Center attempts to reconcile the search for truth with the need for reconciliation and healing.

nuclear missile

We ignore the ever-growing global arsenal of nuclear weapons at our peril.

Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan on the Brink,  civil wars, Asif Ali Zardari

Ahmed Rashid’s gloomy, essential account of the divisive US-Pakistan alliance.

Digital surveillance

Search engine executives warn about invasive government surveillance, but the digital arms trade begins with their own technologies.

Anwar al-Awlaki

How three US citizens were killed by their own government in the space of one month in 2011.

Syrian boy living in Mafraq, Jordan

After fleeing violence at home, Syrians struggle to eke out a new life in Jordan’s cities and towns.

The Tsarnaev brothers

It appears the Tsarnaev brothers were self-motivated. But their Salafist extremism was itself one outgrowth of the brutal Chechen wars of independence against Russia.

With the killing of Awlaki, the president of the United States became judge, jury and executioner for American citizens.

Iraq

What used to be called "shell shock" is now the daily stress of living in a war zone.

Blogs

Droney the predator drone doesn't understand sex scandals.

November 20, 2012

There were exactly two brief segments on this crisis, even as a building in Gaza housing MSNBC’s fellow journalists was struck.

November 20, 2012

Is the Israeli government’s preferred “solution” to the conflict really any different than the status quo?

November 19, 2012

As the number of civilian casualties mounts, our nation's “kill list” only grows longer. 

November 19, 2012

Some Israeli hawks are calling for the complete flattening of Gaza.

November 19, 2012

The White House better let Israel know, quietly, to stand down. And then work for a real ceasefire. Fast.

November 16, 2012

The media's blind veneration for the military figures led to its shellschocked response to David Petraeus's affair.

November 15, 2012

Now that the election is over, the US is freer to make peace with the Taliban.

November 15, 2012

Israel's air force assassinated Hamas leader Ahmad Jaabari. As the Israeli airstrikes continued today, seven more Palestinians were killed and at least 30 were injured, ten critically.

November 14, 2012

The president's foreign policy news conference knocked down conspiracy theories and raised a glimmer of hope on talks with Iran. But worries remain about our engagement with Syria. 

November 14, 2012
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