Democrats Have a Unique Constitutional Duty to Check, Balance the President Democrats Have a Unique Constitutional Duty to Check, Balance the President
Members of the party of a sitting president have a higher responsibility to raise constitutional concerns about drone policy.
Feb 10, 2013 / John Nichols
President Obama Should Go to Chicago. And Yemen. And Pakistan. And … President Obama Should Go to Chicago. And Yemen. And Pakistan. And …
The president should condemn violence at home, and hold himself accountable for violence abroad, as well.
Feb 8, 2013 / Mychal Denzel Smith
America’s Global Torture Network America’s Global Torture Network
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.
Feb 8, 2013 / Robert Scheer
Nine Things John Brennan Needs to Explain Today Nine Things John Brennan Needs to Explain Today
No Congressional hearing has examined the secret expansion of targeted drone killings, but the senate has a chance to grill Obama's nominee for CIA director today.
Feb 7, 2013 / George Zornick
Fifty-four Nations Are Implicated in a CIA Torture Scheme Fifty-four Nations Are Implicated in a CIA Torture Scheme
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.
Feb 6, 2013 / David Cole
Questions for John Brennan That Won’t Get Asked Questions for John Brennan That Won’t Get Asked
Because if he told them, he’d have to kill them. Wait. He did.
Feb 6, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss
Time to Face the Truth About Iran Time to Face the Truth About Iran
The Islamic Republic has survived for so long because its basic model is, according to numerous surveys, what a majority of Iranians actually want.
Feb 6, 2013 / Feature / Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
Torture and Taboo: On Elaine Scarry Torture and Taboo: On Elaine Scarry
How the work of a literary critic became the proxy for our preoccupation with the horrors of torture.
Feb 5, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn
Alabama Hostage Rescue: Using the Military at Home? Alabama Hostage Rescue: Using the Military at Home?
A slippery slope that ought to scare us all.
Feb 5, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss
Good Riddance to Warmonger Hillary Clinton Good Riddance to Warmonger Hillary Clinton
As secretary of state, Clinton backed the Petraeus-CIA plan to go to war in Syria.
Feb 4, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss