The California state senate is considering what is perhaps the coolest piece of legislation in modern America. The bill, introduced by Democrat Ted Lieu and Republican Joel Anderson, would ban all of California from providing "material support" — access to water and...
A worst case scenario is unfolding in Syria, and Palestinian refugees, particularly in the Yarmouk refugee camp, are paying a heavy price for Syria’s cruelest war. They are starving, although there can be no justification, nor logistical explanation for why they are...
The list of civil wars, government crackdowns, and pesky militant safe-havens that interventionists demand the United States meddle in seems endless. There is no corner of the Earth that doesn't call for some measure of U.S. intervention, apparently. The latest call...
DC wonks are giddy at the political drama sure to unfold with Bob Woodward's review in the Washington Post of Robert Gates's new memoir to be published this month. The controversy is predictably focused on a few quotes in which Gates describes Obama as petty and...
In a memo to President Obama, former National Security Agency insiders explain how NSA leaders botched intelligence collection and analysis before 9/11, covered up the mistakes, and violated the constitutional rights of the American people, all while wasting billions...
Charles Pierce at Esquire says the new look at the 1971 burglary of FBI offices that revealed systematic abuses "says a lot about why the whole debate over what the NSA has been up to should not be wholly concerned about one's opinion of Edward Snowden...and why any...
A new book has been published today that reveals for the first time the identities of a group of American activists who burgled FBI offices, stole sensitive documents, and leaked them to journalists. The fact that the burglary took place is hardly remembered by most...
In a New York Times Op-Ed, two former U.S. officials, Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon warn of the potential for Egypt's crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood to engender Islamic extremism. "Egypt’s crisis threatens to add fuel to the ongoing terrorist activity across...
