The dust-up between New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul over presidential fidelity to the Constitution – particularly the Fourth Amendment – was the most illuminating two minutes of the Republican debate last week. It is a well-regarded...

Peshmerga forces are investigating unusual burns found on some fighters after a mortar attack in northern Iraq. At least 74 people were killed in other attacks.

If the "first tier" Republican presidential debate revealed anything, it is the huge empty space that is at the heart of the conservative mind, circa 2015. No wonder a vacuous nonentity like Donald Trump is leading in all the polls: his gargantuan ego has...

Originally posted at TomDispatch. Let me tell you a story about a moment in my life I’m not likely to forget even if, with the passage of years, so much around it has grown fuzzy. It involves a broken-down TV, movies from my childhood, and a war that only seemed...

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has announced that he will oppose the nuclear agreement between Iran and P5+1 – the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany. He has released a detailed statement, explaining his reasons for opposing the...

Several people were executed in Mosul for transporting Yazidi women. At least 156 others were killed in Iraq.

After the hysteria stirred up by the Islamic State lopping off a few heads in a faraway land, including those of a very small number of Americans, Republicans running for president fell all over themselves in beating the drums of war. That response was predictable,...

Binyamin Netanyahu is not known as a classical scholar, but even so he has adopted the Roman maxim Divide et Impera, divide and rule. The main (and perhaps only) goal of his policy is to extend the rule of Israel, as the "Nation-State of the Jewish People",...

Two suicide bombers struck in separate towns in Diyala province.