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Page 1 of 30 next›› Iraq/The War on TerrorThe Afghanistan Strategy Dodge Separating strategy from questions of resources and personnel obscures the options. November 18, 2009 | | web only The Left Fights Itself In his new book, Michael Bérubé says the left is torn between radical politics and cultural studies. The loser, naturally, is its relevance. November 17, 2009 | | web only The Left Splits Over Bagram Is sending some Guantanamo detainees to Bagram a good idea? November 13, 2009 | | web only Can Human Rights Win the War? Top U.S. military officials are starting to sound like human-rights advocates when it comes to detention policy in Afghanistan. October 29, 2009 | | web only A Feminist Case for War? One of the few remaining rationales for maintaining the occupation is protecting Afghan women. Is that enough? October 27, 2009 | | web only Evasive Maneuvers Journalists learn what to do if they're captured in Afghanistan -- or rural Virginia. October 14, 2009 | American Ignorance and Afghanistan We can't keep training the public to think in black and white terms about a very gray war. October 12, 2009 | | web only The Vietnamization of Afghanistan Obama's choices in Afghanistan will either break the Democrats' association with Vietnam or confirm it. September 23, 2009 | | web only Hawks and a Hack Job John McCain, Joe Lieberman, and Lindsay Graham all want the White House to commit more resources to Afghanistan. Too bad the senators don't have any credibility on the issue. September 17, 2009 | | web only Overdue Process When it comes to terrorist suspects in detention, Obama is finding that Bush set a difficult precedent to break. August 20, 2009 | Double Jeopardy Civil-liberties and human-rights groups have found themselves fighting a two-front battle on how the United States tries terrorist suspects. August 6, 2009 | | web only The Hurt Locker as Propaganda For a supposedly anti-war film, Kathryn Bigelow's Hurt Locker serves as a remarkably effective military recruiting tool. July 17, 2009 | | web only The Dilemma of Post-Acquittal Detentions The administration says it can detain terrorist suspects even after they've been acquitted. It is legal, but is it a good idea? July 10, 2009 | | web only The Other Sons of Iraq How the lessons al-Qaeda learned in Iraq are informing the next generation of fighters. June 22, 2009 | | web only Conservatives' Cold War Approach to Iran Republicans are once again deploying a cracked history of the Reagan era to cast international politics as a zero-sum game. June 18, 2009 | | web only The Pakistan Puzzle Recent tomes on Pakistan overlook ordinary citizens' conflicting motivations, says our man on the ground. June 11, 2009 | Keeping Secrets Lawyers and shrinks have privilege; journalists should, too. But it's not that simple. June 5, 2009 | Honor Military Families with Adequate Health Care The VA is still operating as if all of its patients are young, childless, and male -- and veterans' families are paying the price. May 23, 2009 | | web only Do Conservatives Understand Torture? Conservatives don't actually support torture. They just think it's a useful tool. Too bad they're wrong. April 30, 2009 | | web only Political Islam 101 Three books administration officials should read as they attempt to deal with the Middle East in all its messy nuance. April 15, 2009 | Page 1 of 30 next›› |