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Rarely has the McCarthyite smear of “anti-Semitism” been revealed to be so empty as in the case of Obama’s DoD nominee.

When we will begin to learn the real lessons of Vietnam?

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

Nathan Englander’s play, The Twenty-Seventh Man, focuses on the moment that Yiddish culture in Russia died a sudden and unnatural death.

The US military’s “Pacific Pivot” is raising tensions with China and prompting local resistance.

When The New York Times first revealed the NSA was wiretapping Americans without a warrant in 2005, it was a scandal. But the government continues to spy with impunity—and what was once illegal has become the law.

How thrillers inform spycraft, and the fictions that belie them both.

As Zero Dark Thirty reminds us, Americans have yet to face the torture committed on our behalf. 

How the US intelligence community came out of the shadows. 

The US military’s aggressive Asia-Pacific strategy is escalating tensions with China and prompting local resistance throughout the region.