

Why Congress Won’t Stop the Drone War
My latest for World Policy Review, “Oversight or Not, Drones Are Here to Stay,” has posted.
My latest for World Policy Review, “Oversight or Not, Drones Are Here to Stay,” has posted.
From one Nobel Peace Prize winner to another.
Cave quid dicis, quando, et cui.
Five suspects have been arrested in a plot to blow up a Cleveland bridge.
The Atlantic’s Max Fisher reflects on “What America Can Learn From Norway’s Anders Breivik Trial.”
A profile of the chief of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center.
Today, the #stopkony hashtag is trending on Twitter. Here’s why.
Attorney General Eric Holder offered a somewhat alarming defense of the Administration’s policy on targeted killings.
Once again, Ron Paul showed last night why he could never win the Republican nomination.
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 authorizes the President the authority to indefinitely detain persons, even American citizens arrested on American soil, without trial because they allegedly support the enemy.
The most disturbing part of Saturday’s debate came when most of the GOP candidates endorsed torture.
An attack against Iran’s nuclear weapons research facility won’t be an easy thing.
The CIA’s drone war in Pakistan has gotten so out of hand that the Pentagon and State Department are reigning it in.
What’s the logic behind Iran’s alleged plot to commit terrorist attacks inside the United States?
The Justice Department claims to have disrupted a major Iranian-backed terrorist attack in the United States.
We’re learning more about the Obama Administration’s decision to kill Anwar al-Awlaki
Giving the President the unchecked power to kill American citizens raises some serious red flags.
When the FBI essentially creates a terrorist in order to arrest him, have we really accomplished anything?
My latest for The Atlantic, “The Thorniest Question: When Can a President Order an American Killed?” has been posted.
The FBI has been using some odd materials to train its counterterrorism agents.
Paul Krugman chose to mark the the 10th anniversary of September 11th with an odd blog post.
Not every 10th anniversary of a horrible surprise attack has been treated the same.
Was it wrong for the NFL to schedule its opening Sunday on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks?
The short-lived national unity spawned by the attacks of a decade ago was re-kindled for a few hours as former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush joined with Vice President Joe Biden to honor Flight 93.