"It is not written in our hearts, it is carved in our hearts.” I awoke this morning still shaken with these words in my head. Yesterday I was in Ramadi and Fallujah. Instead of bringing a message of caring, of empathy for their suffering and a desire for peace, my...

Yesterday's Associated Press report featuring a big-scary (read: meaningless) diagram allegedly leaked from Iran's nuclear scientists by “a country critical of Iran’s atomic program” is receiving thorough scrutiny and utter ridicule today. As I explained in my piece...

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The essence of the Obama administration's legal justification for the drone war in Pakistan, Yemen, and elsewhere is that the bombs are dropped only to disrupt an imminent threat to America from militants involved in terrorist operations. This narrative is important...

Commentators across the spectrum are talking this week about how Hamas was the real victor of the latest conflict, even though Gaza disproportionately felt the costs of advanced military bombardment. Here's Thanassis Cambanis in Foreign Affairs as an example: Now...

Look: people on television actually having a conversation about the drone war, its (il)legality, and Obama's abuse of executive power.

Obama's war on transparency is forever intensifying. His crackdown on whistleblowers and attacks on legitimate journalism as national security threats are now infamous. But last week the President issued a "Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and...

The greatest political conceit held by those in power is that rules only apply to others, not oneself. President Obama, according to the New York Times, embraces this conceit wholly in his administration of the drone program. Before Obama won reelection, he was...