Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 98)
America’s ISIS next door: Mexico, billion-dollar cartels and the colossal failure of the war on drugs
Rebecca Gordon
They behead people by the hundreds. And like ISIL, Mexican gangs are flourishing as a result of failed U.S. policy
“Crack cocaine for the Pentagon”: Meet the secret slush fund that’s getting hawks high
David Dayen
While the right cuts tons of basic services, here's the secret slush fund the military doesn't want you to discover
John Oliver’s British accent is breaking YouTube’s closed captioning, apparently
Colin Gorenstein
Is it really that hard to understand, though?
ISIS: Making sense of the spectacular brutality and viral engagement fueling the new state of terror
Laura Miller
Experts explain how botched American policies helped create a movement that revolutionized Islamist extremism
It’s not unpatriotic to say the Pledge in Arabic
Mary Elizabeth Williams
A controversy erupts over a school's Foreign Language Week
Laura Ingraham’s vile “skinhead” analogy: Saying the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic is just like being a neo-Nazi
Joanna Rothkopf
"Most people who love this country love it enough to speak the language"
Thomas Friedman asks if US should arm ISIS to fix problems created by policies he supported
Luke Brinker
When it comes to what the US should do in the Middle East, it's a matter of Friedman vs. Friedman
American patriotism is for suckers: Dwight Eisenhower, George W. Bush and the end of Manifest Destiny
Nan Levinson
Ike famously warned us about our military-industrial complex. Sixty years later, his nightmare is coming true
“Criminal mutiny”: Bill Maher and Sean Penn slam Republicans for Iran letter
Joanna Rothkopf
Arianna Huffington, Sharyl Attkisson and Tom Rogan also appeared on Friday's "Real Time with Bill Maher"
“A new degree of pettiness”: Why is the U.S. really sanctioning Venezuela?
Marcy Wheeler
While the administration claims Venezuela poses a dire threat to our security, the facts show a different reality
GOP’s “Iran letter” excuse: We were just being “cheeky”
Jim Newell
Nothing's funnier than trying to blow up high-stakes multilateral diplomatic talks during crunch time!
America’s broken brain trust: Why public intellectuals are hastening our empire’s demise
Andrew Bacevich
Give the op-eds and Sunday shows to high school social studies teachers. America's chattering class is useless
“Decker”: Adult Swim’s delightfully lowbrow, low-budget “American Sniper” parody returns
Gavin Tomson
The deliberately cheap-looking show lampoons the glorification of war by pushing it to ridiculous extremes
2016’s untold story: How the election could bring a new wave of progressive warriors
Luke Brinker
While the presidential contest consumes much of our attention, down-ballot races could power a liberal revival
Joe Biden unloads on Senate Republicans seeking to torpedo Iran negotiations
Luke Brinker
VP slams 47 senators' letter to Iran as unprecedented assault on president's foreign policy authority
“One girl can be silenced, but a nation of girls telling their stories becomes free”
Roya Mahboob
Through the Superhero Project and blogging Afghan girls learn what it's like to be visible to the world
“If I teach them, no one can stop them”: Roya Mahboob is fighting to educate the girls of Afghanistan
Elizabeth Schaeffer Brown, Jason Brooks Brown
Threats of death and scandal haven't stopped Roya from trying to change the lives of Afghan girls and women
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, one year later: “Nothing is certain, as everything is possible”
Michael Paterniti
We're stuck inside a real-life ghost story, in which details are ephemeral and an ending stubbornly elusive
“Do what we want in Afghanistan, or we’ll have the Americans drone you”: Our immoral drone war — and how the CIA gets used
Andrew Cockburn
Time and again, our high-tech warriors and spy agencies have gotten played and killed innocents in the Middle East
A chilling new post-traumatic stress disorder: Why drone pilots are quitting in record numbers
Pratap Chatterjee
A raft of data suggest our remote-controlled war games are taking a steep psychological toll on their players
Report: David Petraeus close to plea deal in leak case (UPDATED)
Luke Brinker
Retired general and former CIA director set to avoid trial for leaking classified information to mistress
10 ways America can stop terrorizing its citizens (and the rest of the world)
Tom Engelhardt
We refuse to think of ourselves as barbaric, and yet our War on Terror is exactly that. It's time we put it to rest
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