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Anthony Shadid was an exceedingly rare reporter in the thinning ranks of American journalism.
 

Mark Jordan and Jay Michaelson seek hope for gay religious practice in heretical churches and the Hebrew Bible.

After supporters protested his “sham” trial, Abdulelah Haider Shaye would have been pardoned. Then Obama intervened.

How US counterterrorism operations ignited an Islamist uprising.

Marcy Wheeler on indefinite detention for US citizens, Peter Kornbluh on the legacy of US complicity in Chile and the editors on Tony Kushner, winner of the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship.

Nine common terms associated with our present wars that probably don’t mean what you think they mean.

Osama bin Laden is dead, but will the colossal national security apparatus ever stop growing?

The pope failed to take decisive action in response to clear evidence of a criminal underground in the priesthood.

If President Saleh falls, the US will have lost a pliant partner in its “global war on terror.”

Who is Rigoberta Menchú?