Waterboarding Democracy Waterboarding Democracy
Why did four key members of Congress failed to inform the public and the 9/11 Commission about the use of torture on terror suspects?
Dec 12, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer
Torture Tapes: Failure at All Levels Torture Tapes: Failure at All Levels
CIA, Department of Justice, White House--and members of Congress--ran through every legal and procedural red light designed to prevent criminal conduct and its cover-up.
False Alarm False Alarm
A predawn fire drill propels a writer into an unexpected encounter with a former CIA director--and an unexpected lesson on the uses and limits of intelligence.
Dec 10, 2007 / Ted Gup
Setting the Record Straight on FISA Setting the Record Straight on FISA
Civil liberties and national security are not contradictory: they are inextricably linked.
Dec 7, 2007 / Rep. John Conyers
Iraq’s Civil Resistance Iraq’s Civil Resistance
The secular left brings together unionists, women's organizations and students.
Dec 6, 2007 / Feature / Bill Weinberg
The Old and New Shapes of Nuclear Danger The Old and New Shapes of Nuclear Danger
During the cold war, the driving force was the bilateral arms race; now it's proliferation.
Dec 6, 2007 / Feature / Jonathan Schell
Blackwater’s Bu$ine$$ Blackwater’s Bu$ine$$
Undeterred by scandal, Blackwater's global business is booming and continues to pursue its political agenda from deep inside the Mitt Romney campaign.
Dec 6, 2007 / Jeremy Scahill
War Comes Home to Iowa War Comes Home to Iowa
The absence of a definitive antiwar candidate has divided the state's peace activists.
Nov 29, 2007 / Feature / Ari Berman
Battle of the Surge Battle of the Surge
Don't believe the GOP triumphalists: the decline in violence in Iraq does not mean the surge is working.
Nov 29, 2007 / The Editors
Pakistan’s Bomb: Have It Your Way Pakistan’s Bomb: Have It Your Way
Thanks to globalization, the 'Islamic bomb' turns out to be a little bit American, Canadian, Swiss, German, Dutch, British, Japanese and even Russian.
Nov 28, 2007 / Feature / Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins