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FILE - This undated file photo obtained by The Associated Press shows Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private suspected of being the source of some of the unauthorized classified information disclosed on the WikiLeaks website. Manning's civilian attorney David Coombs said Wednesday, March 2, 2011, that the new charges announced by the military are not unexpected. The 22 new charges include "aiding the enemy," which is a capital offense although prosecutors say they won't seek the death penalty. (AP Photo, File) (AP)

Marines defend making WikiLeaks suspect sleep nude

David Dishneau
The military has drawn harsh criticism for its decision to make Bradley Manning sleep naked
Memorial Church in Harvard Yard

Harvard to allow ROTC back on campus

Jay Lindsay
After 41 years in defiant protest against military policies the nation's oldest university will help train soldiers
Matt Damon

Matt Damon disappointed in Obama: “I no longer hope for audacity”

Matt Zoller Seitz
In a CNN appearance, one of the president's most vocal Hollywood supporters says Obama "misinterpreted his mandate"
President Barack Obama speaks during a bi-partisan meeting of governors in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

“Moammar Gadhafi has lost the legitimacy to lead and he must leave”

Bradley Klapper
In a press conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Obama denounced the Libyan president

What we know so far about the Frankfurt airport shooter

Adam Clark Estes
Was he an Islamic terrorist or misguided youth? Did he act alone? Where was he from? Here's what we've learned
A bullet hole is seen in the driver's window as the bus is towed away after a gunman fired shots at U.S. soldiers on the bus outside Frankfurt airport, Germany, Wednesday, March 2, 2011 killing two airmen and wounding two before being taken into custody. (AP Photo/Michael Probst) (AP)

Suspect in Frankfurt shooting admits targeting American troops

Melissa Eddy, Tomislav Skaro
The alleged shooter in Frankfurt, a Muslim airport employee, says he worked alone and aimed for Americans
Anti-Gadhafi protestors Kadija Sherif, right, and Hana Benghalbon, background, take part in a demonstration at the Libyan Embassy in Washington, Tuesday, March 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez) (AP)

Realistic options for ousting Gadhafi look limited

Matthew Lee, Robert Burns
Little short of U.S. military intervention seems likely to force Gadhafi from power in the short term.

Supreme Court says Westboro Baptist Church can protest at military funerals

Salon/AP
The bench rules in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church's right to stage anti-gay protests at military funerals
Libyans wave Libyan monarchist-era flags on a monument in the southwestern town of Nalut, Libya, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. The town is currently in control of the Libyan anti-government forces. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (AP)

U.S. cautious on military action against Libya

The Associated Press
Secretary of Defense says any action against Libya would have far reaching consequences for the military
From left, Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen; Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Pentagon Comptroller Robert F. Hale, and others, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011, before the HouseArmed Services Committee hearing on the Defense Department's budget. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

The real U.S. national security budget

Chris Hellman
The money set aside for defense spending only makes up half of what we actually pay for "security"
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Tiny spy planes mimic birds and insects

Julie Watson
Researchers are working on nature-inspired drones to help rescue people during disasters and, yes, also to spy

The nationalism bias of journalists

Glenn Greenwald
Jack Goldsmith believes U.S. journalists are guided by allegiance to American interests, and that this is good
Human Rights council members follow a speech by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday Feb. 28, 2011. The 27-nation bloc agreed an arms embargo, asset freeze and visa ban against Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi on Monday. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) (AP)

West moves to help Libya uprising, Gadhafi digs in

Maggie Michael
The U.S. and E.U. have started taking steps to aid opponents to Moammar Gadhafi's regime
Tom Ricks of Foreign Policy magazine and The Washington Post, along with fellow FP editors Joshua Keating and Blake Hounshell all rushed to discredit Seymour Hersh and the contents of his January 17, 2011 speech.

Seymour Hersh and the men who want him committed

Matthew Phelan
A venerable publication launches a ridicule campaign against one of America's top investigative journalists
U.S. Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, the commander of NATO’s mission to train Afghan policemen and soldiers Kabul, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb, 12, 2011. Caldwell says more nations are pledging support, yet the coalition still faces a shortage of 740 trainers needed to get the Afghan security forces ready to take the lead in securing their nation by the end of 2014. On Saturday, Latvia and Lithuania pledged 16 and 23 trainers to mentor the Afghan Air Force in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) (AP)

The military/media attacks on the Hastings article

Glenn Greenwald
WSJ, MSNBC reporters attack an expose. Plus, this just in from the NYT: "we tried our best not to be misleading"

Dear Thomas Pynchon, can you blurb my book?

Scott Rothman, Mike Sacks
Letters from an aspiring writer with big dreams -- and big delusions about his novel

Obama presides over a private contractor boom

Justin Elliott
The use of armed private contractors has soared in Afghanistan since President Obama took office, a report finds
U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D- Mich. the chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee talks during a press conference accompanied by Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010.

General ordered psy-ops to be used on American elected officials

Alex Pareene
The Army asked a propaganda unit to influence senators, according to Michael Hastings
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, speaks with Gen. David Petraeus NATO's top commander in Afghanistan during a press event in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. Vice President Joe Biden was in Afghanistan Monday for a surprise visit aimed at assessing progress in handing over security from foreign to Afghan forces, a key issue that comes against a backdrop of mounting concerns in the U.S. over the gains made in the nearly decade-long war. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

All-American decline in a new world

Tom Engelhardt
5 ways Washington is oblivious to the changing realities of the Middle East
FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2010, file photo, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks in Washington. The jockeying to find a nominee to challenge President Barack Obama is a crowded, unsettled affair, but one thing's clear: It will be more conservative, to tp bottom, than was the Republican Primary four years ago, and several before that. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) (AP)

Is Mike Huckabee bored by foreign policy?

Justin Elliott
The potential 2012 hopeful says of the war in Afghanistan: "I don't know" what to do
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange listens as his lawyer Mark Stephens speaks outside Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in London, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Assange's lawyer and a Swedish legal expert on Tuesday accused Swedish prosecutors of irregularities and illegality in the way they built a sex crimes case against the WikiLeaks founder. Assange was in a London courtroom for a second day Tuesday, fighting extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over claims of rape and sexual molestation made by two Swedish women. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) (AP)

Assange faces extradition for sex crimes

Cassandra Vinograd
A British judge ruled that the Wikileaks founder can be extradited to Sweden. Assange's lawyer will appeal
Former presidents Buchanan and Bush

Who’s the worst president of them all?

Glenn W. LaFantasie
When it comes to who least deserves to be honored today, it's a close call between the 43rd and 15th presidents
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This week in winning hearts and minds

Glenn Greenwald
Four incidents from the last week alone highlight why there is intense anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world
In this Feb. 11, 2011 photo released by CBS, "60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan is shown covering the reaction in in Cairo's Tahrir Square the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down. CBS News says Logan was attacked Friday, and suffered a brutal beating and sexual assault before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She is recovering in a U.S. hospital. Logan, CBS News' chief foreign affairs correspondent, is one of at least 140 correspondents who have been injured or killed since Jan. 30 while covering the unrest in Egypt, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. (AP Photo/CBS News) (AP)

Female foreign correspondents’ code of silence, finally broken

Kim Barker
The assault of CBS reporter Lara Logan has brought public attention to the plight of female foreign correspondents
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