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Why did Obama administration lawyers refuse to discount the possibility, even for First Amendment–protected speech?

On staring death in the face and not noticing.

Judging by his advisers, Romney would embrace Bush’s unilateral interventionism and massive military budgets.

What exactly does the president mean when he promises a “clear timeline to wind down the war"?

Tarek Mehanna got seventeen years in prison for translating a document.

Covert operations have now assumed a dominant—and destructive—role in US foreign policy.

Luego de que sus partidarios cuestionaran la legalidad de la corte que lo condenó, Abdulelah Haider Shaye debería haber sido puesto en libertad. Pero el presidente Obama intervino.

To its shame, the Obama administration continues to defend its role in the case of a jailed Yemeni journalist.

The unstoppable legacy of the war on terror.

The mutual resentment between the Afghan people and the US military has broken out in the open.