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The Question Torture Apologists Can’t Answer
Zero Dark Thirty brings the torture debate back.
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Advertising Those Second Amendment Rights
A list of some of the gun-totin’-est political ads from the last few years.
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When Assad Dropped the Façade
It’s hard to believe, but Bashar al-Assad once presented himself to the world as Syria’s modernizer.
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John Kerry, the Most Progressive Pick for the State Department?
The optics of Susan Rice’s withdrawal from consideration for secretary of State are disheartening. Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post and Representative Marcia Fudge of Ohio attributed racism and sexism to the campaign against Rice, with Marcus writing that “the attack had something to do with Rice’s gender, and her sharp elbows and sometimes sharper […]
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Rice Takes Herself Out
Mark Landler, we have a bridge to sell you.
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Why Does Obama Want to Spend $8 Trillion on Defense?
Washington is in a fiscal panic, yet surprisingly few people are asking an obvious question: Why in the world is the Obama administration proposing to spend $8 trillion on security over the next decade? Included in that giant sum is not just Pentagon spending, but also outlays for intelligence, homeland security, foreign aid, and diplomacy […]
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Afghanistan Sketches
Illustrator Victor Juhasz spent three weeks in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Here, a sampling of his work.
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Zero Dark Thirty’s Morality Brigade
Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama bin Laden movie doesn’t endorse torture.Â
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Why Are Chemical Weapons Different?
Do they belong in the same category as nuclear and biological weapons?
