Justice

The Things They Carried

Scenes from the illegal wildlife trade.

DECEMBER 28, 2010

The Serpent King

How a notorious Malaysian wildlife smuggler was brought to justice -- and what it tells us about stopping the world's most profitable black market.

BY BRYAN CHRISTY | DECEMBER 28, 2010

Strange Days, Indeed

Scenes from Julian Assange's WikiCircus in London.

BY COREY PEIN | DECEMBER 15, 2010

Obama's Handcuffs

Was the Ahmed Ghailani verdict a victory for the rule of law, or the final nail in the coffin of the Obama administration's attempt to try terrorists in civilian courts?

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

LWOT special brief: Ghailani convicted on one count of conspiracy, cleared of murder charges

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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Delusion Points

Don't fall for the nostalgia -- George W. Bush's foreign policy really was that bad.

BY STEPHEN M. WALT | NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Divide and Conquer

How the Kremlin schooled Russia's feuding democrats, again.

BY JULIA IOFFE | NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Values Voters

How Malaysia's right-wing Islamist party became the country's best hope for political reform.

BY DUSTIN ROASA | OCTOBER 12, 2010

The Son Also Rises

On Sept. 27, Kim Jong Un was named to a lofty post in North Korea's army, presumably in preparation to succeed his father as the country's ruler. FP looks at the world's autocrats-in-training who are waiting to take over their fathers' regimes.

BY JOSHUA KEATING AND CHARLES HOMANS | SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

The LWOT: Chicago man arrested in bomb attempt; Government fights Gitmo release

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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Gitmo Forever

President Obama has found that it's easier to make high-minded pledges to close the notorious prison than to actually get it done.

BY BARBARA SLAVIN | SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The Permanent Slum

The residents of Buenos Aires's Villa 31 have been shunted to the side for as long as they can remember. Now, they're looking to assert their identity in an unfriendly city.

BY JORDANA TIMERMAN | SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The War Criminal Next Door

Why are there 1,000 suspected torturers and génocidaires in America right now?

BY NICK DONOVAN | SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

How Different Is Obama from Bush on Terrorism?

The U.S. president has found himself caught in some old legal traps -- while creating new ones of his own.

BY NOAH FELDMAN | SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The LWOT: TTP designated a terrorist organization; Awlaki family challenges U.S. “hit list”

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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

America's First Muslim President

Muslim Americans helped elect George W. Bush, but now they're leaving the Republican Party in droves. It didn't have to be this way.

BY SUHAIL A. KHAN | AUGUST 23, 2010

This Week at War: Is Mexico's Drug War Doomed?

Learning to live with drug cartels -- and killer robots.

BY ROBERT HADDICK | AUGUST 13, 2010

The LWOT: Khadr trial begins, Qosi sentenced

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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | AUGUST 13, 2010

The Man Gitmo Raised

Omar Khadr's trial is a reminder of everything that went wrong with justice at Guantánamo Bay.

BY ANDREA PRASOW | AUGUST 12, 2010

The Paul Kagame I Know

Rwanda's president fought to end the country's 1994 genocide -- then used it to justify his own awful rule.

BY ROBERT KRUEGER | AUGUST 5, 2010

Straight Outta Kandahar

What soldiers fighting the Taliban can learn from cops policing American inner cities.

BY GRETCHEN PETERS | AUGUST 4, 2010

The LWOT: FBI arrests “Revolution Muslim” writer; Gitmo prisoner forced to return to Algeria is missing

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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | JULY 22, 2010

Troubles in Turkey's Backyard

Forget Gaza or Iran, Prime Minister Erdogan needs to focus on the reignited war with Kurdish separatists -- before a full-fledged war breaks out in Turkey's restive southeast.

BY ALIZA MARCUS | JULY 12, 2010

The LWOT: Terror arrests shake Norway; US court demands more information on Gitmo detainee

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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | JULY 8, 2010

Unfinished Business

For 65 years, Japanese corporations have escaped responsibility for abusing American POWs during World War II.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JUNE 28, 2010

Bank Shot

Nine years after 9/11, getting between extremist groups and their funding remains an uphill struggle.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JUNE 21, 2010

Locked Up in Rwanda

An American lawyer is arrested in Kigali for genocide denial. Is it a sign of President Paul Kagame's creeping authoritarianism?

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JUNE 1, 2010

Mikey Weinstein's Crusade

Meet the man who's trying to purge evangelical Christianity from the Pentagon.

BY STEPHEN GLAIN | MAY 25, 2010

Lawyers vs. Pirates

As if catching pirates weren't hard enough, now we have to figure out what to do with them. And no, they can’t all just walk the plank.

BY J. PETER PHAM | APRIL 30, 2010

The Torture Commission We Really Need

It’s not enough just to understand what went wrong in the Justice Department. We need to start fixing it, too.

BY DAVID KAYE | MARCH 25, 2010