War and National Security

In Vain Have We Sanctioned

Harsher measures against Iran won’t work.

  • Akbar Ganji

The Soft Side of Regime Change

On Trita Parsi’s A Single Roll of the Dice.

  • Flynt Leverett
  • Hillary Mann Leverett

The Plague

Farmers and settlers clash in South Hebron.

  • David Shulman

Regime Change Doesn’t Work

History shows that forcing rulers from power rarely works. Even apparently successful regime changes often leads to bitter civil war.

  • Alexander B. Downes
with responses from
  • Greg Grandin
  • Neta C. Crawford
  • James D. Fearon
  • Mary Kaldor
  • John Tirman
  • Tod Lindberg
  • Joanne Landy

A Little Help

Rahman, a native of Pakistan, was wrongfully accused of aiding would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad. 

  • David William Turner

Straight Shooter

Coming home after Navy Seal duty.

  • Matt Gallagher

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End of the Road

News of Osama bin Laden’s killing by U.S. special forces has sunk in. News of al Qaeda’s demise has not.

  • Fawaz A. Gerges

The Responsibility of Intellectuals, Redux

Using privilege to challenge the state.

  • Noam Chomsky

Advertising Away Our Privacy

By routinely giving away a huge amount of personal data, everyday Internet users might already have become law enforcement’s greatest ally.

  • Evgeny Morozov

Extreme Injury

Once eight countries have nuclear weapons, people everywhere on earth potentially ‘have’ them.

  • Elaine Scarry

Bin Laden: The Movie

The director of The Hurt Locker takes on the 9/11 mastermind

  • Alan A. Stone

A Predicament Of His Own Making

Rather than dismantling Bush’s counterterrorism apparatus, Obama has in crucial respects perpetuated it.

  • Owen Fiss

Known Unknowns

Deliberations in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani.

  • Basil Katz

Robocop

Drones at home.

  • Joseph Nevins

Iraq’s Lost Generation

The war’s human toll.

  • Nir Rosen

Al Qaeda and the Pakistan Floods

Natural disaster is paving the way for the manmade variety.

  • Syed Saleem Shahzad

The War for Drugs

How Juárez became the world’s deadliest city.

  • Sarah Hill

A New Start

Prospects for Obama's "Global Zero"

  • Tara McKelvey

Ending the Endless War

Will Colombia’s democracy survive the violence?

  • Luis Fernando Medina

The Obligation to Prosecute

Why we must prosecute the Bush administration officials who sanctioned torture.

  • Elaine Scarry

Something from Nothing

U.S. strategy in Afghanistan.

  • Nir Rosen
with responses from
  • Helena Cobban
  • Syed Saleem Shahzad
  • J. Alexander Thier
  • Andrew Exum
  • Aziz Hakimi
  • Andrew J. Bacevich
  • Richard W. Miller
  • Rajan Menon

Counterinsurgency’s Comeback

Can a colonialist strategy be reinvented?

  • Nasser Hussain

An Ugly Peace

What changed in Iraq.

  • Nir Rosen

God, the Army, and PTSD

Is religion an obstacle to treatment?

  • Tara McKelvey
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