Terrorism

Terrorist Fishing in the Yemen

The Obama administration has doubled down on the use of drones to go after bad guys. How long until the blowback comes?

BY JAMES TRAUB | MAY 11, 2012

A Nation of Spies and Snitches

The United States is pretty darn good at infiltrating terrorist groups -- at home and abroad -- these days. But should we be worried about the social costs?

BY J.M. BERGER | MAY 9, 2012

The bin Laden Files

What the al Qaeda leader's final correspondence tells us about his legacy.

BY DAVEED GARTENSTEIN-ROSS | MAY 3, 2012

Where Democracy Is America’s Second Choice

For Washington, democracy promotion in Yemen continues to take a back seat to the fight against Al-Qaeda.

BY FRANCISCO MARTIN-RAYO | MAY 2, 2012

Hi, I Killed Osama bin Laden and I Approve This Message

Can Barack Obama ride the OBL raid to victory in November?

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | MAY 1, 2012

Al Qaeda Is Doing Nation-Building. Should We Worry?

Yes. But not as much as you might think.

BY WILL MCCANTS | APRIL 30, 2012

Down with CISPA

America needs to stop preaching civil liberties abroad while passing privacy-destroying bills at home.

BY TREVOR TIMM | APRIL 27, 2012

The New al Qaeda Franchises

Al Qaeda itself may be diminished after the death of Osama bin Laden, but its affiliates are still sowing instability around the world.

BY LOIS PARSHLEY, HANNA TRUDO | APRIL 23, 2012

Think Again: Al Qaeda

A year after Osama bin Laden's death, the obituaries for his terrorist group are still way too premature.

BY SETH G. JONES | MAY/JUNE 2012

Smart Sanctions: A Short History

How a blunt diplomatic tool morphed into the precision-guided measures we know today.

BY URI FRIEDMAN | MAY/JUNE 2012

Strike Out

David Rohde says the Pakistani military finds drone strikes effective. But research suggests they increase terrorist activity in the short run.

MAY/JUNE 2012

The LWOT: Anders Behring Breivik on trial in Norway

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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND | APRIL 20, 2012

He's Not Alone

The trial of Norway's alleged mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is only the tip of the iceberg in a rising sea of radical Islamophobia in Europe.

BY PAUL HOCKENOS | APRIL 19, 2012

The New Arab Oz

We’re not in Kansas anymore, and there is no yellow brick road to guide us to salvation.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | APRIL 18, 2012

Patriot Games

How the FBI spent a decade hunting white supremacists and missed Timothy McVeigh.

BY J.M. BERGER | APRIL 18, 2012

The LWOT: Britain allowed to extradite five alleged extremists

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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND | APRIL 13, 2012

Yemeni Idol

It's not easy being the second-biggest rock band in Sanaa.

BY GAAR ADAMS | APRIL 13, 2012

Needles Into Ploughshares

Want to fight Latin America's drug problem? Try land reform.

BY OLIVER KAPLAN, MICHAEL ALBERTUS | APRIL 12, 2012

The Lesson from Mali: Do No Harm

An African success story is in trouble. Is the West's intervention in Libya to blame?

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | APRIL 11, 2012

The LWOT: Alleged 9/11 plotter to face death penalty trial

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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND | APRIL 6, 2012

The Mess in Mali

How the war on terror ruined a success story in West Africa.

BY GREGORY MANN | APRIL 5, 2012

Welcome to Shura City

Religious and ethnic conflicts have left the Taliban's headquarters-in-exile battered and bleeding.

BY FARAH JAN | APRIL 5, 2012

We're Winning This Fight

The prime minister of Somalia, present at yesterday's deadly bombing in Mogadishu, on why terrorism won't disrupt his country's turn for the better.

BY ABDIWELI MOHAMED ALI | APRIL 5, 2012

Spy Games

The Department of Homeland Security is trying to hack into your Xbox. Should gamers be worried?

BY MICHAEL PECK | APRIL 2, 2012

The LWOT: Christian militia members acquitted

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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND | MARCH 30, 2012

Power Grab

President Obama's real constitutional overreach was Libya, not health care.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | MARCH 28, 2012

Pushing Back

President Barack Obama's advisors fire back at Mitt Romney.

MARCH 28, 2012

The LWOT: French homegrown extremist shot dead

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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND | MARCH 23, 2012

The Fallout from Toulouse

Will the massacre in France turn out to be Nicolas Sarkozy's Oklahoma City?

BY ERIC PAPE | MARCH 22, 2012

Le Nouveau Normal

The Toulouse shootings are macabre and tragic, but in the end a banal and fading version of extremism.

BY JUSTIN VAÏSSE | MARCH 22, 2012