Digging a Deeper Hole
A surge is really a counterinsurgency? That argument isn't going to fly, McCain.
A surge is really a counterinsurgency? That argument isn't going to fly, McCain.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media
In the Congo, there have been more than 200 killings of civilians documented, as well as rape of hundreds of women and girls since January by all armed groups, including Congolese army soldiers.
Dan Kovalik | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
It stands to reason that an increase in the size of the military is not a means of changing our mindset -- it is a recipe for more war.
Charlie Rose | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics
Obama's Afghan appearance won't stop the criticism from foes that he doesn't know enough about fighting and winning a war, and that his credential as a tough guy on the war against terrorism is suspect.
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
For only the fourth (or fifth, depending on how you count) time in his presidency, George W. Bush had a veto overridden by both houses of Congress thi...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
A freelance war photographer was kicked out of his embed after he published on his blog a photo of a dead U.S. Marine, among other strong images. The military says this violated embed rules.
Robert Koehler | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
The moral center of humanity slowly asserts itself. Only the most powerful are too afraid to join. You may have missed the news: At the end of May, 1...
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
Without a microscopic examination of the seething cauldron of Iraqi partisan politics, it's safe to say that Maliki knows which way the wind is blowing. The Iraqi people want to know -- "when is the U.S. leaving?"
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
McCain's going to have to come up with some new spin to explain why Obama and Maliki are now singing from the same songbook on timetables for withdrawal.
Sean-Paul Kelley | Posted 07.13.2008 | Green
One thing I have never understood about Americans is their love of cars, and I am from Texas. To me, a car is like a prison sentence.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics
I've written often here about my friend Cheryl Harris, whose son Ryan Maseth was electrocuted and died in Iraq. She finally testified before Democrats in Congress yesterday.
AP | ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 07.09.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Oil prices finished about where they began Wednesday after jumping more than $2 earlier on reports of lower U.S. oil stockpiles and a...
Russ Wellen | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
While for many of us, nuclear weapons conjure up images of burning flesh, moral appeals are lost on the Pentagon. Its only concern is winning wars.
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The next time the president goes to war, Congress should be consulted and vote on whether it agrees, according to a bipartisan stud...
Trita Parsi | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics
Tehran is either putting on a nicer face to win time or it has recognized the dangers of an Israeli attack and is showing greater flexibility as a direct result of the Jewish state's muscle flexing.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
On June 23, Sean Webster's body was found in an isolated part of his base. The Naval Criminal Investigate Service is probing the death as a "probable" suicide.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics
The military has finally, after nine months, announced the results of its probe into the death by gunshot of a gay soldier in Afghanistan.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
Bush's term in office will be remembered for the precedents it set, particularly in relation to the presidential power, and the separation of powers between the three branches of U.S. government.
Wired | Noah Shachtman | Posted 06.23.2008 | Green
Environmental groups have been warning for years that global climate change could make already-tense parts of the world even worse, and even spark who...
Russ Wellen | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
For better or worse, we're constitutionally incapable of summoning up sufficient cynicism to imagine the moral depravity required to start another war.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
Another young U.S. soldier, this one age 19, has apparently killed himself in Iraq, and at least two other reports of "noncombat" deaths in the past week may fall in the same category.
Nathan Gonzalez | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
Conditions that Iran cease its uranium enrichment, as well as America's overt talk of bombing, only paint the Islamic Republic into a corner from which it can hardly get out, given its structure.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics
A horrible truth has emerged: It turns out that Spc. Kamisha Block was actually murdered, and the killer, another soldier, Staff Sgt. Brandon Norris, then turned the gun on himself.
Conn Hallinan | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
Military alliances are always sold as things that produce security. In practice they tend to do the opposite -- NATO is an alliance in trouble.
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
John McCain's famously cozy relationship with the press is getting a bit testy. Taking questions in...
**UPDATE 7/25** ThinkProgress now reports that the bar...
There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
As we have observed throughout the last several years,...
In a flagrant political act, the State Department has...
Major news organizations are drawing...
"Extra" has learned that Heather Mills' publicist, Michele Elyzabeth, has...
Will the mainstream media cover the John Edwards love child scandal put out there by the...
I have a wait problem. I hate to wait. When...
WASHINGTON — Congress approved mortgage relief for 400,000...
Ashcroft Claims Waterboarding...
Shawn Brimley | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics