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US Quietly Ramps Up Security Along the Canadian Border

Drones, surveillance towers, and other markers of a security state are on the rise in the north.

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| Thu Feb. 7, 2013 3:13 PM PST
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Paying the Bin Laden Tax

Osama bin Laden is dead, but America's post-9/11 security state will live on for years.

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| Tue Feb. 5, 2013 12:26 PM PST

Don't Expect Anyone to Ask Chuck Hagel About an Orphanage Massacre During Vietnam

The confirmation hearings won't seriously address the dark legacy of the war.

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| Thu Jan. 31, 2013 12:01 PM PST

America Lost in Afghanistan. What Happens Next?

Three lousy options for Afghanistan's future.

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| Mon Jan. 28, 2013 2:13 PM PST

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A Rape a Minute, a Thousand Corpses a Year

Violence against women is incessantly overlooked, both in America and elsewhere.

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| Fri Jan. 25, 2013 4:00 AM PST

Will China-Japan-US Tensions Sink the Global Economy?

A looming crisis in the Pacific could have big consequences for the United States.

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| Tue Jan. 22, 2013 12:42 PM PST
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How Did the Gates of Hell Open in Vietnam?

There's still a lot Americans don't know about the Vietnam war.

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| Thu Jan. 17, 2013 1:08 PM PST
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Eight Things I Miss About the Cold War

Fifty years ago, college was cheap, unions were strong, and there was no terrorism-industrial complex.

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| Tue Jan. 15, 2013 2:17 PM PST
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The Pentagon as a Global NRA

When it comes to selling weapons overseas, there's no such thing as gun control.

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| Mon Jan. 14, 2013 12:47 PM PST
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Seven Steps to Loving Torture, Zero Dark Thirty-Style

Kathryn Bigelow's film swallows Bush-era torture policies hook, like, and sinker.

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| Thu Jan. 10, 2013 12:06 PM PST
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“So Many People Died”: How Afghanistan and Iraq Echo Vietnam

The ties between the wars are darker than most Americans recognize.

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| Tue Jan. 8, 2013 4:10 PM PST
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Will It Take a Climate Pearl Harbor for Obama to Pull an FDR?

Addressing climate change gradually will be too little, too late.

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| Mon Jan. 7, 2013 11:16 AM PST
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The Future According to the US Intelligence Community

Megatrends, game-changers, black swans, tectonic shifts, and a world not that different from 2012.

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| Thu Jan. 3, 2013 12:12 PM PST

How Zero Dark Thirty Sanitizes Torture

For torture victims, it's the psychological wounds, not the physical ones, that never really heal.

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| Wed Jan. 2, 2013 4:00 AM PST

How the US Intelligence Community Came Out of the Shadows

Zero Dark Thirty, Homeland, Jason Bourne—the way the intelligence community has become a fixture of pop culture is stunning.

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| Wed Jan. 2, 2013 4:00 AM PST
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Rebecca Solnit: 2013 Will Be Year Zero In Our Climate Battle

From climate change to class conflict—the challenges we will confront in 2013.

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| Sun Dec. 30, 2012 3:24 PM PST
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Are the U.S. and Israel Heading for a Showdown?

No one is thinking about it, but it could just sneak up on us.

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| Thu Dec. 20, 2012 11:59 AM PST
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The Rich, White, Conservative GOP Must Change, But It Won't

Demographic trends are making the formerly Grand Old Party obsolete, but is the party going to do anything about that?

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| Thu Dec. 13, 2012 1:09 PM PST

How the Pentagon Spends $170 Billion

With over 1000 military bases around the globe, the military's budget is simply staggering.

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| Tue Dec. 11, 2012 1:19 PM PST
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What Can Washington Do About Iran?

The current U.S. strategy is not exactly a raging success—perhaps detente rather than military power is how we might breach that Wall of Mistrust with Iran.

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| Thu Dec. 6, 2012 12:37 PM PST