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Globalizing the “Global War on Terror.”

Kurt Vonnegut sought to fool us with his eyes wide open.

We do not care a whit about their human rights as long as they satiate our unbridled appetites.

How Pakistan makes Washington pay for the Afghan war.

Varamo is the latest novel-in-translation from Argentina’s slipperiest living writer.

The Czech playwright's enduring ideas about politics, truth and human nature.

Why Afghan history is a sobering antidote to the relentless optimism of the American military.

Finally, after years of persistent effort by courageous women activists, one of the world’s most brutal dictators has been indicted.

The fierce campaign against whistle-blowers in Washington.

Why do patriotic members of an elite combat unit refuse to serve in the occupied territories?