Why is it so threatening to say Muslim lives matter?

Why is it so threatening to say Muslim lives matter?

Sophia A. McClennen

We are increasingly divided not just over which lives matter, but whether we should even question how we mourn

04/15/2019 16:00 EDT

U.S. Marines at Task Force Southwest military field in Shorab military camp of Helmand province, Afghanistan. (AP/Massoud Hossaini)

Afghanistan forces intimidate, rob U.S.-hired contractors

Victor Kotsev

Afghanistan soldiers have been stealing from and brutalizing US-paid local contractors

04/15/2019 05:00 EDT

In this Friday, April 22, 2016 photo, a jar containing a strain of marijuana nicknamed "Killer D" is seen at a medical marijuana facility in Unity, Maine. A growing number of health experts and law enforcement officials are making the case that marijuana could help reduce the numbers of overdoses and redirect money into fighting heroin and other opiates. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) (AP)

Decriminalizing the drug war?

Alfred McCoy

Calculating the damage from a century of drug prohibition

04/14/2019 18:59 EDT

This photo provided by the Defense Department's Missile Defense Agency, taken Jan. 28, 2016, shows a long-range ground-based interceptor is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. As North Korea rattles its nuclear saber and threatens to bomb the U.S. at any moment, a nerve-jangling question hangs in the air: If North Korea did launch a nuclear-armed missile at an American city, could the Pentagons missile defenses shoot it down beyond U.S. shores? (Defense Department's Missile Defense Agency via AP) (AP)

The great con: In missile defense, nothing succeeds like failure

Doug Vaughan

Progress is always elusive, but now coming at you even faster. And more expensive. Really, really

04/14/2019 14:00 EDT

Pete Buttigieg officially announces his presidential bid

Matthew Rozsa

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg declared his presidential candidacy official on Sunday

04/14/2019 13:30 EDT

Vladimir Putin; Julian Assange; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

Julian Assange and the future of democracy: Is this a turning point in World War IV?

Andrew O'Hehir

Assange's arrest was an authoritarian masterstroke, exposing intense confusion and hypocrisy on the anti-Trump left

04/14/2019 12:00 EDT

Donald Trump arrives by escalator inside Trump Tower to announce his campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination in New York, June 16, 2015. (Reuters/Brendan McDermid)

Can we stop pretending now?

Andrew J. Bacevich 04/13/2019 13:30 EDT

In this handout photo provided by The Guardian, Edward Snowden speaks during an interview in Hong Kong. (The Guardian via Getty Images)

Edward Snowden and activists claim Julian Assange’s arrest poses a threat to press freedom

Shira Tarlo

"Assange's critics may cheer, but this is a dark moment for press freedom," the NSA whistleblower says

04/11/2019 13:15 EDT

Julian Assange gestures to the media from a police vehicle on his arrival at Westminster Magistrates court on April 11, 2019 in London, England. (Getty Images/Jack Taylor)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange charged by US with conspiracy to hack a government computer

Shira Tarlo

Assange is accused of conspiring with former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning

04/11/2019 08:58 EDT

A U.S. Army soldier stands by Iraqi's Oil Ministry after it was hit by missiles, November 21, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. (Getty/Joe Raedle)

Goodbye to all that: The forever wars go on without me

Danny Sjursen

Leaving the madness of Army life with a modest pension and all of my limbs intact feels like a genuine escape

04/08/2019 05:00 EDT

Pakistani commandos from the Special Services Group march during a military parade to mark Pakistan's Republic Day, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, March 23, 2017. President Mamnoon Hussain said Pakistan is ready to hold talks with India on all issues, including Kashmir, as he opened the annual military parade. During the parade, attended by several thousand people, Pakistan displayed nuclear-capable weapons, tanks, jets, drones and other weapons systems. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

South Asia’s nuclear-armed neighbors pull back from the abyss…barely

Dilip Hiro

India and Pakistan have created the most perilous place on Earth.

04/07/2019 13:30 EDT

Rand Paul; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; Ilhan Omar (Getty/Mark Wilson/Suzanne Cordeiro/AP/Susan Walsh)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar team up with Rand Paul to praise Trump for Syria withdrawal

Shira Tarlo

The unexpected trio and a group of ten other lawmakers wrote Trump on Wednesday to offer their "bipartisan support"

04/03/2019 17:24 EDT

Mayor Pete Buttigieg, of South Bend, Indiana (AP/Charles Krupa)

Mayor Pete Buttigieg says his 2020 presidential campaign raised $7 million in the first quarter

Shira Tarlo

It is an impressive sum for a long-shot candidate who was relatively known only a few months ago

04/01/2019 18:00 EDT

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (Getty/Alex Wong)

How to make yourself an exception to the rule of law

Rebecca Gordon

John Bolton and Mike Pompeo defy the International Criminal Court

03/31/2019 05:00 EDT

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speak as Tom Steyer looks on after the Democratic presidential primary debate at Drake University on January 14, 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa. Six candidates out of the field qualified for the first Democratic presidential primary debate of 2020, hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Do any of the Democratic presidential candidates understand the power of peace?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies

America’s future depends on it

03/30/2019 14:59 EDT

Mayor Pete Buttigieg, of South Bend, Indiana (Getty/Alex Wong)

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg surges to third place in Iowa in new 2020 poll

Shira Tarlo

Buttigieg polled at 0 percent in the same poll in January — now, he has double-digit support

03/25/2019 18:55 EDT

Cory Booker; Elizabeth Warren; Joe Biden; Kirsten Gillibrand; Bernie Sanders (AP/Getty/Salon)

2020 Democrats face the “Blob” challenge

Jefferson Morley

How would the presidential contenders deal with the entrenched U.S. foreign policy elite?

03/23/2019 08:29 EDT

In this May 2004 photo, a group gathers around a GBU-43B, or massive ordnance air blast (MOAB) weapon, on display at the Air Force Armament Museum on Eglin Air Force Base near Valparaiso, Fla. U.S. forces in Afghanistan struck an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, April 13, 2017, with a GBU-43B, the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military, Pentagon officials said. (Mark Kulaw/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP) (AP)

Whose blood, whose treasure?

William J. Astore

America's senior generals find no exits from endless war

03/23/2019 05:00 EDT

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg defended the Green New Deal

Matthew Rozsa

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay major party presidential prospect, backs a Green New Deal

03/17/2019 15:45 EDT

CIA agent turned comics writer Tom King on making art in the era of Trump’s “absurdity”

Chauncey DeVega

Tom King was a CIA officer in the Middle East after 9/11. Now he's among the most acclaimed comic-book writers

03/17/2019 13:00 EDT

People are brought out of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after a shooting at the school on February 14, 2018 in Parkland, Florida. (Getty/Joe Raedle)

School shooters and drones: Gun violence at home and abroad

Allegra Harpootlian

Linking gun violence at home to America’s wars abroad

03/16/2019 04:00 EDT

Tucker Carlson is probably safe: He’s too valuable to the GOP for Fox to cut him loose

Amanda Marcotte

Carlson is good at leveraging bigotry to get viewers to vote against their own interests. Republicans need that

03/12/2019 14:30 EDT

Tucker Carlson remains defiant as new tapes of the Fox News host using racist language resurface

Shira Tarlo

Carlson says a so-called leftist "mob" assails free speech and demands "total conformity" to political correctness

03/12/2019 11:37 EDT

What will come after a U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan?

Abdulkader Sinno

There is little hope for an outright U.S. victory over the Taliban at this point

03/10/2019 04:00 EDT