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The Twenty-Seventh Man

Nathan Englander’s play, The Twenty-Seventh Man, focuses on the moment that Yiddish culture in Russia died a sudden and unnatural death.

The US military’s “Pacific Pivot” is raising tensions with China and prompting local resistance.

When The New York Times first revealed the NSA was wiretapping Americans without a warrant in 2005, it was a scandal. But the government continues to spy with impunity—and what was once illegal has become the law.

Timothy Melley

How thrillers inform spycraft, and the fictions that belie them both.

As Zero Dark Thirty reminds us, Americans have yet to face the torture committed on our behalf. 

How the US intelligence community came out of the shadows. 

Jeju Ladies

The US military’s aggressive Asia-Pacific strategy is escalating tensions with China and prompting local resistance throughout the region.

Afghanistan war

Peace forces could join with labor, civil rights and environmental coalitions to pressure Obama to “do some nation-building here at home.”

Military personell

Why are US taxpayers still forced to pay billions of dollars for US military bases?

Barack Obama

What remains of the initial Obama drive to reach out to Iran with an “engagement that is honed and grounded in mutual respect”?

Blogs

The trove of documents revealed the widespread torture and civilian casualties caused by the war.

March 19, 2013

We owe the people of Iraq an enormous debt.

March 18, 2013

The good, the bad and the ugly of what was said and written back in those heady days.

March 17, 2013

 Better late than never? But still, no reporters or editors are being held accountable.

March 14, 2013

A curious paradox, but one that’s part of a pattern of Middle East bungling by the US.

March 13, 2013

 Just before the invasion, one-third of newspapers spoke out against attacking at that time.

March 13, 2013

The US Attorney General has recently stated that drone strikes on Americans are possible and that banks complicit in the financial crisis are too big to prosecute.

March 12, 2013

Now that the whistleblower has admitted his role in leaking Army files, he can move on to explaining why he did it, says Daniel Ellsberg.

March 12, 2013

The Obama administration should have argued the case against Anwar al-Awlaki in a court of law, not on the pages of The New York Times.

March 11, 2013

The group's career suffered over Natalie Maines' comment against invading Iraq.

March 10, 2013
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