During last Saturday’s Democratic debate on CBS, the moderator asked Bernie Sanders if he still believed that climate change is the greatest threat to national security-and he said yes. Republican senators scoffed at his claim that climate change could lead to destabilization and more terrorism, calling it “unrelated,” “disingenuous,” and even “absurd.” But what the […]
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Paris, Friday the Thirteenth
Terrorists’ new target: places where regular people go for joie de vivre to eat, drink and unwind.
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The ISIS Trap That the United States Must Avoid
Our efforts will be self-defeating if we drive Sunni nationalists closer to ISIS.
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Will the GOP Candidates Try to Reignite Voters’ Fears?
It’s worked before.
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French Connections: The Knock-On Effects of the Paris Attacks
How might the terrorist attacks affect civil liberties, U.S.-Russia relations, Israel, and the 2016 election?
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How the U.S. Government Became Both More Secretive and More Open
The same decades that saw the growth of national-security secrecy saw the rise of the public’s “right to know.”
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Deterrence, and that Truck in Austria
Anyone serious about countering extremism in the Middle East should be doing much more for refugees.
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What We Talk About When We Shout About Iran
The real argument isn’t about the fine print. It’s about Obama, Netanyahu, and the value of diplomacy.
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The Limits of Rand Paul’s Constitutional Convictions
Posing as defender of the Bill of Rights, the presidential hopeful steers clear of grandstanding on popular measures he deems unconstitutional.
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The Cyber Conundrum
Why the current policy for national cyber defense leaves us open to attack.