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Why did Obama administration lawyers refuse to discount the possibility, even for First Amendment–protected speech?

The nearly $1 trillion national security budget.

Why the real victor in Campaign 2012 won’t be Obama or Romney.

Drone flies above Afghanistan

On staring death in the face and not noticing.

Guantanamo Bay

The dramatic opening of the 9/11 trial shined a light on all the ways in which a commission is not a federal court.

Six recent clashes and conflicts on a planet heading into energy overdrive.

NATO forces

We should shrink the alliance’s budget and ambitions and focus on the greatest threat to the West: economic crisis.

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Republicans refused to allow a vote on an accelerated withdrawal from Afghanistan, because they knew it would pass. 

May 18, 2012

How did Yemen come to pose such a grave threat to the United States?

May 17, 2012

How US counterterrorism strategy in Yemen is actually counterproductive.

May 17, 2012

President Karzai demands investigation, and NATO apologizes—again.

May 15, 2012

There's a downside to assassinating bin Laden, too, but don't expect the White House to acknowledge it.

May 1, 2012

Barack Obama’s general election campaign wasted no time in playing the bin Laden card against Mitt Romney.

April 27, 2012

Eric on his return to Yale. Reed reviews Rachel Maddow's new book, Drift.

April 5, 2012

Russia, China support the United Nations plan.

March 29, 2012

Obama should capitalize on antiwar sentiment in the election.

March 27, 2012