While there must be zero tolerance for terrorists, it is important to remember that the American Muslim community is a valued and much needed partner in countering extremism.
Jeff Stein | Posted 12.03.2009 | World
Anthropologists should not be helping U.S. military forces gather information about Afghan villagers and their way of life, a study commission sponsored by their academic organization said today.
Peter Henne | Posted 11.19.2009 | World
Whatever the President decides, he must rhetorically prepare the public for the costs of his Afghanistan strategy, a feat that cannot be accomplished until he clearly differentiates the two approaches to this war.
Alfred W. McCoy | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
Think of our counterinsurgency wars abroad as so many living laboratories for the undermining of a democratic society at home, a process historians of such American wars can tell you has been going on for a long, long time.
David Quigg | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
The basic grim truths that Matthew Hoh wrote about in his much-quoted resignation letter were all basically true when he took his job a few months ago.
Lydia Khalil | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
Just because homegrown plots constitute the majority of those uncovered doesn't mean that homegrown terrorism is the greatest threat.
Len Levitt | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
The Daily News seems unable physically, emotionally and intellectually to place blame where it belongs when something goes wrong inside the NYPD.
Jeff Stein | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
Despite grim new portraits of U.S. fortunes in Afghanistan, Washington's debate over troop levels continues unhinged from reality.
David Quigg | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Afghanistan represents the opportunity for Obama to serve the American people brilliantly and, along the way, demonstrate that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
Nathan Gardels | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
The last time the Democrats ran a war, it was "Madeleine's war," when we bombed Serbia. Albright, the former secretary of state, weighs in on Obama's deliberations on Afghanistan.
AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 10.05.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — A network of security cameras, license plate readers and weapons sensors intended to protect lower Manhattan from terrorist threats w...
AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 11.28.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — The arrest last week of former coffee vendor Najibullah Zazi on charges of plotting to attack New York City gives added urgency to th...
AP | TOM HAYS and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 11.22.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — The government expanded a terrorism warning from transit systems to U.S. stadiums, hotels and entertainment complexes as investigator...
AP / Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON - The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks would not have happened had U.S. intelligence agencies been organized then the way they are now, the top U...
AP | TOM HAYS and P. SOLOMON BANDA | Posted 11.15.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — A Colorado man denied Tuesday that he's a central figure in a terrorism investigation that fed fears of a possible bomb plot and led ...
Jonathan Kim | Posted 11.10.2009 | Entertainment
Why were the Black Panthers and the IRA such fans of The Battle of Algiers? Some credit the Algerian uprising with providing the blueprint for how modern insurgencies can win wars against militarily superior foes.
Peter Henne | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
Al Qaeda's greatest weapon is not its bombs but its voice, and the threat it will hijack discourse in the Muslim world, which requires a concerted US outreach campaign to counteract.
Lorelei Kelly | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Seeking an alternative to the word "escalation" to describe U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, I asked deployed or recently back friends and they each offered a different answer.
Peter Henne | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
In the absence of an apparently imminent threat, will the American public continue to support sending forces to Afghanistan, or will they punish Obama for taking ownership of this conflict?
AP | JEAN-PIERRE VERGES | Posted 09.19.2009 | World
PARIS — Police detained three suspected members of Basque separatist group ETA in a French Alps ski resort and seized material for making explos...
Sheldon Filger | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
As America becomes increasingly seen as hostile to Muslims irrespective of who they are, while China is perceived as welcoming, these trends will translate into economic realities.
Frank Naif | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
John Brennan's role as a top national security honcho in the Obama administration shows the limitations of Obama's "look to the future, not to the past" mantra.
The Washington Independent | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
I'll have a broader piece up soon about John Brennan's speech about counterterrorism, which in many ways represented a stark departure from several ke...
The Washington Post | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
The U.S. government must fundamentally redefine the struggle against terrorism, replacing the "war on terror" with a campaign combining all facets of ...
Jonathan Richards | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
Sheriff Obama doesn't want any trouble, but Dirty Dick Cheney keeps raising the stakes. Are we nearing High Noon? ...
John L. Esposito | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics