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
Kevin Rudd, Agent of Change? Kevin Rudd, Agent of Change?
He's greener and less hawkish than his predecessor, but is Australia's next prime minister really all that different?
Nov 27, 2007 / Feature / Antony Loewenstein