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The LWOT: Musharraf says Britain was complicit in torture; Domestic terrorism arrest made in Alaska

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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | MARCH 15, 2011

Proceed With Caution

The perils of trusting the United Nations.

BY TOM PRICE | MARCH 14, 2011

The LWOT: King hearings open with emotion, rancor; Man with white supremacist ties arrested in Spokane bomb attempt

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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | MARCH 11, 2011

Peter King's Witch Hunt

Congress's anti-terrorism hearings risk tarring the entire Muslim American community.

BY SUHAIL A. KHAN | MARCH 9, 2011

The LWOT: Obama lifts Gitmo trials freeze, signs indefinite detention order

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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | MARCH 8, 2011

The LWOT: Gunman kills two U.S. Airmen at Frankfurt Airport; Two NJ men plead guilty to attempting to join al-Shabaab

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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | MARCH 4, 2011

Cairo 1.5

The Arab world that Barack Obama addressed in his famous speech two years ago is history. It's time for him to speak to the new one.

BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 4, 2011

The LWOT: British court convicts Awlaki-linked terror plotter; Texas terror suspect to plead not guilty

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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | MARCH 1, 2011

The LWOT: FBI arrests Saudi in alleged terrorism plot; Chesser gets 25 years in prison

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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | FEBRUARY 25, 2011

The LWOT: Khalden trainer gets 34 months; Government invokes state secrets in controversial case

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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Slash and Burn

Congressional Republicans are bent on all but eliminating the U.S. government's foreign aid budget. And Defense Secretary Robert Gates may be the only one who can stop them.

BY JAMES TRAUB | FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The LWOT: Terror camp trainer pleads guilty at Gitmo; House passes 90-day Patriot Act extension

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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Winning the Battle, Losing the War

The Pentagon may have come out of Barack Obama's 2012 budget mostly unscathed, but the military's salad days of limitless spending are over.

BY GORDON ADAMS | FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Congressional Oversight

Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill want to know why nation-building in Afghanistan is failing. Where were they for the first seven years of the war?

BY PAUL D. MILLER | FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The LWOT: Lieberman criticizes Army, FBI over Ft. Hood; Possible fifth 9/11 cell revealed

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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Strait Talk

Barack Obama doesn't want you to know about it, but his administration just made the biggest move in more than a decade to open up Cuba.

BY ARTURO LOPEZ-LEVY | JANUARY 31, 2011

The LWOT: Ghailani receives life sentence in embassy bombings; U.K. announces counterterrorism reforms

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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | JANUARY 28, 2011

The Rest of the Story

Al Jazeera's Palestine Papers have been a PR disaster for the Palestinian Authority. But it's Israel's American supporters who really need to read them.

BY JAMES TRAUB | JANUARY 28, 2011

The LWOT: Ghailani faces life at sentencing today; Alleged al Qaeda figure could be deported to U.S.

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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | JANUARY 25, 2011

The Least Worst Venue

The Obama administration's plan to resume military commission trials for Guantánamo detainees isn't as terrible as civil liberties advocates think.

BY ROBERT CHESNEY | JANUARY 21, 2011

Tilting at Wind Turbines

Americans are fretting over China's green leap forward. They shouldn't be.

BY MICHAEL LEVI | JANUARY 19, 2011

The LWOT: Obama grudgingly signs Gitmo ban; shooter attacks Congresswoman, others in Arizona

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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | JANUARY 11, 2011

The LWOT: Obama considers ignoring Congressional Gitmo ban; UK to modify but continue control orders

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JANUARY 7, 2011

Why Isn't Obama Pressuring the Palestinians?

Mahmoud Abbas says he won't negotiate with Israel. Why is Obama letting him get away with it?

BY STEVEN J. ROSEN | JANUARY 4, 2011

The LWOT: Terror arrests roil Europe; Obama considers indefinite detention review process

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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | JANUARY 3, 2011

New Kids on the Block

Meet the foreign-policy powers for the new GOP congress.

BY JOSH ROGIN | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011

A Chief's Service

Meet Adm. Mike Mullen, unsung hero of Congress's not-so-lame duck session -- and Sen. Lindsey Graham, its undeniable goat.

BY JAMES TRAUB | DECEMBER 24, 2010

Big Problem, Small Package

New START is a good step forward for limiting strategic nuclear weapons, but the proliferation and deployment of tactical nukes is a serious, and unaddressed, problem.

BY MICAH ZENKO | DECEMBER 22, 2010

Publish or Perish

Private contractors cost taxpayers worldwide untold billions in corruption, inefficiency, and mismanagement. But the solution isn't getting rid of them -- it's showing the rest of us their paperwork.

BY CHARLES KENNY | DECEMBER 20, 2010

Two States, No Solutions

Barack Obama says the Israeli-Palestinian impasse is a threat to the United States' national security. But is he acting like it is?

BY JAMES TRAUB | DECEMBER 17, 2010