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Foust's Liberal Case for Drones or Wishful Thinking?

Foust's Liberal Case for Drones or Wishful Thinking?

05.17.2013
If this were a human soldier, with all of his moral failings, we'd point the finger at him and prosecute him. We'd blame him. But how do...
Boston, Syria, Congo Part Of 'Disturbing' Claim About War Authority

Boston, Syria, Congo Part Of 'Disturbing' Claim About War Authority

Michael McAuliff  05.16.2013
WASHINGTON -- The war authorization that Congress passed after 9/11 will be needed for at least 10 to 20 more years, and can be used to...
Congress Rethinking 9/11 Law

Congress Rethinking 9/11 Law

05.16.2013
WASHINGTON -- Congress is rethinking the broad authority it gave the president to wage a war on terror after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist...

Drones Are the Napalm of Our Crazy Time

05.16.2013
The common element is death rained down from the sky, and drones take this a step further by leaving the inflictors of it safe back in...
Time to Abolish Left vs. Right

Time to Abolish Left vs. Right

05.14.2013
If we're going to fight a binary struggle, it should be populist versus corporatist. That's the only real division in this country right...
Germany Dumps Drone Procurement Program

Germany Dumps Drone Procurement Program

05.14.2013
BERLIN -- An official says Germany has canceled plans to purchase and modify U.S.-made Global Hawk surveillance drones for 1 billion euros...
Navy Makes History With Unmanned Drone Launch

Navy Makes History With Unmanned Drone Launch

05.14.2013
ABOARD THE USS GEORGE H.W. BUSH -- A drone the size of a fighter jet took off from the deck of an American aircraft carrier for the first...
Iran Claims It Built A New 'Epic' Drone

Iran Claims It Built A New 'Epic' Drone

05. 9.2013
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's defense minister says Iran has built a new, radar-evading drone that can do surveillance and fire on enemy targets. The...
America's Divided Soul: Drones, Torture and Technology

America's Divided Soul: Drones, Torture and Technology

05. 9.2013
"I'm not a philosopher who can say whether these drone strikes are definitely wrong. But there's still a moral issue at stake: For while...
Mark Udall: Drones Need To Overcome 'Scary' Stigma

Mark Udall: Drones Need To Overcome 'Scary' Stigma

Ryan J. Reilly  05. 8.2013
The unmanned aerial vehicle industry need to overcome the vision Americans have of "a sky full of drones watching their every move" and...
Reevaluating the Usefulness of Predator Drone Strikes: A Bostonian Perspective

Reevaluating the Usefulness of Predator Drone Strikes: A Bostonian Perspective

05. 8.2013
While there is no such thing as an excusable killing of a civilian, these statistics, and the constant pressure to prevent further terror...

The War on Terror Is Over...But Osama Bin Laden Won.

05. 7.2013
Committing atrocities is one thing, but institutionalizing them with the full imprimatur of the US government is another, and a more definitive...

Learning From Shakespeare

05. 7.2013
Muslim antagonism towards the United States would not have awakened if we had refrained from material military, economic, or diplomatic...

Congress OKs Killing of Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime?

05. 6.2013
A handful of Democratic and Republican senators are considering a rewrite of 60 of the most consequential words to ever pass through Congress:...