Jimmy Soni

Why is Guantanamo still open? Why has there been no public accounting for the Bush Administration's use of torture? Why does President Obama successfully claim the right to assassinate American citizens living abroad accused of terrorism?

And why do civil libertarians lose arguments of this sort time and...

This Veterans Day weekend, Americans will gather to assemble care packages by the thousands for men and women deployed overseas. Like generations of citizen-volunteers, they are moved by noble impulses. They want to do a heartfelt thing for those in harm's way. They want to feel connected to...

This week, Newsweek profiled Raj Rajaratnam, the ex-chief of the Galleon Group hedge fund recently convicted of insider trading. One paragraph caught my attention:

The whole story speaks to the South Asian-American community: its pursuit of success and money at any cost; the differences between immigrants and...

President Obama sounds glum.

First he told the audience at the Congressional Black Caucus dinner to "Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'." Then he gave an interview in which he declared that the country "had gotten a little soft." To top it off, there was his visibly agitated...