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Amy Wilentz

The tension between the personal and the political permeates new books on Haiti by Amy Wilentz and Jonathan M. Katz.

Dwight Eisenhower

Fifty years ago, college was cheap, unions were strong and there was no terrorism-industrial complex.

Joe Biden, Leon Panetta

The Pentagon is intent on pursuing its own global version of the Second Amendment.

torture protest

Zero Dark Thirty has us arguing over whether torture works, not whether it should be banned.

The film is a seven-pronged attempt to making US torture and detention policies once again palatable.

How Argentine fiction about the Malvinas War conspires in a trick of perspective.

Drone

The National Intelligence Community’s Global Trends report reveals a future of continued fearmongering and American exceptionalism. 

John Kerry

Here are just a few things the Foreign Relations Committee should be asking Obama’s nominee for secretary of state.

Soldier in Israel

At long last, this may be the year Washington puts the brakes on Israeli settlement expansion into Palestinian lands. 

The anti-Russia bill violates the rule of law, contradicts American values and undermines US national security.

Blogs

Polls show Americans overwhelmingly oppose US action in Syria, 62-24.

May 1, 2013

The New York Times blows the cover off the Syrian rebel movement.

April 29, 2013

The answer is diplomacy, not war.

April 26, 2013

It’s a tough one, but it ought to John Kerry’s top priority.

April 24, 2013

Under a Democratic administration's military crusade, the US is putting out a global warrant for its own attack.

April 23, 2013

Who were the al-Awlakis, and why did the US kill them?

April 23, 2013

What do we know—and not know—about the US’s covert, extrajudicial ops?

April 23, 2013

The FBI needs to release its Tsarnaev file.

April 23, 2013

President Obama should stay out of Moscow’s jihad in Chechnya.

April 22, 2013

The Supreme Court will now decide: can the government force aid recipients to oppose prostitution?

April 19, 2013