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Obama’s Pentagon is preparing for a number of counterinsurgencies in the developing world

An essential instrument of democracy, the Postal Service should be reimagined–not shrunk.

How the Pentagon is cheating wounded vets.

When it comes to the military budget, peacenik right and left are on the same side.

Esther Kaplan on Massey Energy and mine safety; John Nichols on WikiLeaks and collateral murder

Under Obama, accountability for rights violations during the "war of terror" has been thin.

British voters are taking a hard look at the Conservative Party, and they don’t like what they see.

He was just stating the obvious.

What’s his deal?

In his poems, Mahmoud Darwish greeted even his own name warily, knowing it was something else he’d be forced to leave behind.

Perry Anderson deftly punctures the EU’s self-serving myths, but his own pieties make him a better prosecutor than judge.

A historical parallel that might add to Cole’s well-put points, particularly regarding lawyers defending Guantánamo detainees: John Adams agreed to serve as defense attorney for the British soldiers who fired on Americans in the Boston Massacre. He believed it strengthened the American cause to give the British soldiers a fair trial.

This puzzle originally appeared in the April 24, 1989, issue.