For decades, intelligence agencies like the CIA and NSA that have been tarred with accusations of sexism and racial profiling have worked hard to clean up their images and present a friendlier, more inclusive face to the world. Unfortunately, despite these efforts, similar scandals continue to hound the intelligence community, from the CIA’s hand in […]
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Privilege, Passion, and Politics
The carnage in Orlando and hooliganism in Marseille prompt thoughts about reason versus the passions and the nature of the American Constitution.
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What’s Still True in the Wake of the Orlando Massacre
We will never be completely free of the threat of terrorism—but we can work to minimize that threat.
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Long Lines and Disasters: The TSA in a Time of Troubles
A conversation with former Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Juliette Kayyem on the future of airport security.
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Pentagon Continues to Mull Over Lifting Ban on Transgender Troops
LGBT advocates were elated when Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that the Pentagon intended to lift the military’s longstanding ban on transgender members, saying that the current policy was an “outdated, confusing, inconsistent approach that’s contrary to our value of individual merit.” Nine months later, the transgender community is still waiting for the department to […]
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Why Hillary Won’t Be Indicted and Shouldn’t Be: An Objective Legal Analysis
There is no reason to think that Clinton committed any crimes with respect to the use of her email server.
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Prospect Debate: Should We Fight ISIS?
An exchange over whether the United States should try to press the fight against the Islamic State or abandon it entirely.
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Isolationism is No Answer
How a disciplined and discriminating strategy can defeat ISIS and put the Syrian civil war on the path to a peace accord.
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Response to Starr: The Case for Withdrawing from the War Against ISIS
The war against the Islamic State has become a disastrous, unwinnable quagmire.
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Accelerating the Fight Against ISIS
Going into 2012, Obama had Osama. Going into 2016, the Democrats need the fall of Raqqa and Mosul.