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Chuck Hagel is no leftist. But he has stood up to AIPAC, the defense industry and the neocons.

Obama, Congress and the media continue their dangerous, one-dimensional approach.

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

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

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

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.

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

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