War and National Security

Cyber-Scare

The exaggerated fears over digital warfare.

  • Evgeny Morozov

Beating Bad Karma

Iran’s crisis offers an opportunity for real change.

  • Abbas Milani

A Response to David Mikhail’s Sleepwalker

We must focus on the laws that continue to put so many noncitizens— including legal residents —into detention and deportation proceedings.

  • Mark Dow

Closing Guantánamo

We need to find a way to address serious and legitimate security concerns without the overkill of a general system of preventive detention for suspected terrorists. 

  • David Cole
with responses from
  • Joanne Mariner
  • Robert Chesney
  • Eric Posner

A Tribe Apart

Afghan elites face a corrosive past.

  • Barnett R. Rubin

Presidential Crimes

The crimes of the Bush administration must be addressed through legal instruments, not simply through the electoral repudiation of bad policy.

  • Elaine Scarry

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Fault Lines

Inside Rumsfeld’s Pentagon.

  • Andrew J. Bacevich

The Gunslinger

John Bolton will turn U.S. foreign policy back to the unilateralism of Bush’s first term, when the war on terror meant never having to say you’re sorry.

  • Stephen John Stedman

The Unending War

On Argentina’s quest for justice.

  • Sam Ferguson

The Bitter End

Jonah Goldberg’s liberal fascism.

  • Kevin Mattson

Al Qaeda in Lebanon

The Iraq War spreads.

  • Nir Rosen

No Going Back

Little relief in sight for millions of displaced Iraqis.

  • Nir Rosen

Back to the Future

On Israel’s existential crisis.

  • Robert Blecher
  • Jeremy Pressman

In the Sweep of History

Where realists and progressives can meet.

  • Anatol Lieven

The View from Tehran

Changing Iran from within.

  • Akbar Ganji

Nuclear Freeze

The Middle East and global arms control.

  • Hans Blix

Carrots and Sticks

Remarks from the U.S. Under Secretary of State.

  • R. Nicholas Burns

A Third Way

Normalizing relations will help Iran and the United States.

  • Michael McFaul
  • Abbas Milani

Days of Lies and Roses

Selling out Afghanistan

  • Sarah Chayes

Truth, Lies, and Accountability

In search of justice in East Timor.

  • Joseph Nevins

The Lesser Evil

Using American force wisely.

  • Anatol Lieven

Anatomy of a Civil War

Iraq’s descent into chaos.

  • Nir Rosen

Rules of Engagement

Why military honor matters.

  • Elaine Scarry

The 33-Day War

Hizbullah’s victory, Israel’s choice.

  • Helena Cobban
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