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Congress has many options to counter the Obama Doctrine, including revising the 1973 War Powers Resolution and 2011 Authorization for Use of Military Force. 

A secret CIA drone base, a blowback world and why Washington has no learning curve.

Will Obama’s new immigration reform agenda lead to real changes for the millions of immigrants living in legal limbo?

A new Open Society Foundations report details just how far down the river we've sold this country's democratic values in our overreaching response to terror.

Despite a campaign to silence them, philosophers Judith Butler and Omar Barghouti spoke at Brooklyn College on Thursday night. In an exclusive, The Nation presents the text of Butler’s remarks.

Drones, surveillance towers, malls of the spy state and the national security police on the northern border.

A new report shows that a central element of the Bush administration response to 9/11 was itself to spread terror—on a global scale.

State Assemblyman Dov Hikind was deeply involved in the Jewish Defense League, which the FBI listed as a “violent extremist Jewish organization.” Other officials should be questioning him, not the college.

The Islamic Republic has survived for so long because its basic model is, according to numerous surveys, what a majority of Iranians actually want. 

How the work of a literary critic became the proxy for our preoccupation with the horrors of torture.