News reports yesterday indicated that Bradley Manning, widely known to be gay, had been selected to be one of the Grand Marshals…
The use of drones by domestic US law enforcement agencies is growing rapidly, both in terms of numbers and types of usage.…
The US Supreme Court this morning is hearing oral argument in two cases challenging the constitutionality of laws that discriminate against same-sex…
(updated below) In 1971, when the New York Times decided to publish the Pentagon Papers leaked to it by Daniel Ellsberg, it knew it…
Earlier this month, the Pentagon announced that it would deploy "only" one aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, rather than the customary two. This…
The Justice Department "white paper" purporting to authorize Obama's power to extrajudicially execute US citizens was leaked three weeks ago. Since then,…
(updated below) This past week has been a strangely clarifying political moment. It was caused by two related events: the leak of…
Brooklyn College's Academic Freedom Increasingly Threatened Over Israel Event (updated below) On Tuesday, I wrote about a brewing controversy that was threatening the academic…
(updated below – Update II) The permanent US national security state has used extreme secrecy to shield its actions from democratic accountability…
When it comes to the US "foreign policy community", few if any people are more representative of it than Bruce Riedel. A…
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