Peace and Security
Mr. Obama Goes to Prison
Correcting Unfair Sentencing Laws
In becoming the first president ever to visit a prison with his trip to the medium-security El Reno Federal Correctional Institution near Oklahoma City, President Barack Obama has signaled that he's serious about pushing prison reform before he leaves office. Together...
Yemen Is Starving, and We’re Partly to Blame
Twenty million people in Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab world, are at risk of dying from hunger or thirst. That’s 80 percent of the country’s population, which according to UN agencies badly needs emergency supplies of food and water, along with fuel and...
What Caused the Charleston Massacre?
The recent mass murder of worshippers in an African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina raises troubling questions for all Americans. First among them: How could this have happened? I think the answer to that one is easy. We live in a heavily armed society....
Homegrown Terrorist
All Hacked Up
I've gotten a lot of unwelcome mail from the feds these last few years, like a copy of my indictment for blowing the whistle on the CIA’s torture program. But this latest delivery was something altogether new. My jaw dropped as I scanned the form letter from the...
Odd Bedfellows for Liberty
Let's now praise a threesome of odd bedfellows: a Democratic ex-senator, an exiled American citizen, and a current Republican senator. I don't think they've ever met, yet their separate efforts over 14 years have now guided our ship of state away from some perilous...
Iraqi Army: Then and Now
Of Course Jeb Bush Would Have Invaded Iraq
Jeb Bush must have set some kind of record for political flip-flopping this month. "Knowing what we know now," he was asked — that Saddam Hussein didn’t have any weapons of mass destruction, for example — “would you have authorized the invasion" of Iraq? “I would've,”...
Add Korea to the Axis of Diplomacy
The George W. Bush administration famously dubbed Iran, Iraq, and North Korea the "Axis of Evil." The White House accused that ominous-sounding triumvirate of funding terrorism and developing weapons of mass destruction. The goal was to garner public support for the...
