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While CIA agents that tortured and killed prisoners go unpunished, whistleblower John Kiriakou faces up to forty-five years in prison. 

Obama’s “Smart Power’ foreign policy not smart at all.

There have been some clashes, but so far, the Lebanese—especially Hezbollah—have shown remarkable restraint.

Total tops Iraq at that war’s height.

For Christopher McKnight Nichols, isolationists were cultural cosmopolitans who distrusted the impact of empire.

How quickly will the United States leave Afghanistan?

Indiscriminate shelling is a daily reality in Zabadani, where nonviolent protests turned to guns after the regime began killing protesters.

The new UN envoy has a near impossible task. But Washington must support it—arming the rebels will only prolong the civil war.

Drones have regularized a program of assassinations. 

A guide to disaster at home and abroad.