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On staring death in the face and not noticing.

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.

How some Republican are transforming a conspiracy theory into a policy position.

With the invention of drones, we crossed into a new frontier: killing that’s risk-free, remote, and detached from human cues.

How drones, special operations forces and the US Navy plan to end national sovereignty as we know it.

Zuccotti Park was not my first occupation. But it showed me the need to live up to our values.

The US bombing of a Pakistani border outpost, US drone attacks and Pakistani support for the Taliban—all threaten to destroy the chances for a peaceful US-NATO exit from Afghanistan.

A major redistribution of global power is underway and arrangements that once hugely benefited the American people are coming undone.