Will the War on Terror Be the Template for the Ebola Crisis?

It’s mind-boggling. Torture is still up for grabs in America. No one questions anymore whether the CIA waterboarded one individual 83 times…

How “Thou Shalt Not” Became “Thou Shalt”

On January 11th, 11 years to the day after the Bush administration opened its notorious prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Zero Dark…

First the financial system collapses and it's impossible to access one’s money. Then the power and water systems stop functioning. Within days,…

By now, you’d think we’d be entering the end of the 9/11 era. One war over in the Greater Middle East, another…

As the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, the unexpected extent of the damage Americans have done to themselves and their institutions is…

In the seven weeks since the killing of Osama bin Laden, pundits and experts of many stripes have concluded that his death…

Just in case you thought that “political correctness” had been thoroughly discredited in the culture wars of the 1990s, it’s back —…

Liberty versus security, that initial heated debate over the war on terror, is again rearing its head with much bravado, nowhere more…