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President Obama was right to seek congressional approval to strike Syria—but a bipartisan coalition must turn him down.

Filmmaker John Greyson and physician Tarek Loubani were arrested on August 16 in Cairo. Prosecutors failed to show at a hearing scheduled for August 29.

A target that Republicans and Democrats can unite in vindictive harmony against.

August 6 marks sixty-eight years since the United States committed what is arguably the single gravest act of terrorism that the world has ever known.

Iraq Veterans Against the War and human rights organizations in both the US and Iraq are collecting signatures for a petition to pressure the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to hold a hearing on the human rights impacts of US wars.

Here's how to turn the US-Mexican border into a war zone.

Defense contractors and the government officials that pay them are more than happy to preserve the threat of attack—to their financial benefit. 

What is the NSA doing with your metadata?

Just as the Assange saga consumes too much of Alex Gibney’s film, so today’s Snowden obsession deflects attention away from our sprawling surveillance state.

The amendment to the Defense Authorization Act urges robust negotiations toward a diplomatic settlement.