Just who is doing the killing? That was the question that came up when the U.S. and sometime ally Pakistan got into a war of words over who was responsible for air strikes that killed up to nine people -- including two purported al-Qaeda senior commanders -- in...
“I never thought I would see the day when a Justice Department would claim that only the most extreme infliction of pain and physical abuse constitutes torture and that acts that are merely cruel, inhuman and degrading are consistent with United States law and...
After a week of retrospectives on the tenth anniversary of Washington’s ill-fated invasion of Iraq, the most compelling consisted of a retrospective of the retrospectives. It came from Marc Lynch, an expert on Arab public opinion at George Washington University and...
As President Obama departed for Israel, there came a startling report. Bashar Assad's regime had used poison gas on Syrian rebels. Two Israeli Cabinet members claimed credible evidence. Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said, "It's clear for us that (gas is) being used....
My apologies for the lack of a column – and please don’t ask. I’m sure I’ll recover…. At any rate, I thought I’d revive an old Antiwar.com tradition: on those days where I was absent due to circumstances apparently beyond my control, we used to feature an "oldie...
There is a fascinating study just waiting to be written on the topic of Bosnia's political jokes, evolved over the centuries to express opinions of governments that didn't much care for freedom of speech. One such joke tells of a man who, after the Bosnian War,...
