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Globalizing the global war on terror.

At the highest levels, what’s civilian and what’s military are increasingly difficult to tell apart as the two spheres blur and blend. 

The problem with mankind wielding nuclear power isn’t about backup generators or safety rules—it’s our essential human fallibility.

There’s a perfectly obvious path toward that Republican goal of $100 billion in cuts: change our thinking about making war.

Obama's new National Security Strategy overextends US military commitments at a time when severe budget deficits require significant cuts in defense spending.

Katrina vanden Heuvel appears on The Ed Show attacking the disparate income equality resulting from unfair tax cuts.

Why the Obama administration's efforts to achieve a Middle East peace between the Israelis and Palestinians are inextricably linked to its efforts to bring Iran to heel.

The empire ends with a pullout. Not from Iraq, but from Detroit.

He won't be the next president of the United
States--but Fred Rodell says he ought to be.

Traveling by train to Washington today, to witness an historic inauguration, summons memories of a very different inauguration, fifty-five years ago.