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March 22, 2016
Steven Cohen
Why Bernie’s Foreign Policy Is More Important Than Ever
Sanders has a new responsibility to drive the politics of national security in a better direction.
February 22, 2016
Jeet Heer
Bernie Sanders’s call to shut down the CIA doesn’t make him an extremist.
February 4, 2015
Joel Gillin
Pope Francis Just Declared This Murdered Archbishop a Martyr. Reaganites Should Be Embarrassed.
December 12, 2014
Jessica Schulberg
It's Depressing How Many Americans Still Support Torture
December 11, 2014
Jessica Schulberg
CIA Director John Brennan Just Accidentally Undermined Guantánamo's War Court
December 11, 2014
Yishai Schwartz
We Will Never Know Whether Torture Works. That Shouldn't Matter.
December 11, 2014
Jessica Schulberg
The Torture Report Will Make It Harder for the Government to Prosecute Guantánamo Prisoners
November 5, 2014
Jessica Schulberg
The CIA's Favorite Senator Will Soon Be In Charge of CIA Oversight
October 24, 2014
Gregg Herken
Ben Bradlee and the Powerful Cold War Georgetown Set
September 12, 2014
Jessica Schulberg
Obama's Going to Arm the Syrian Rebels? He's Already Been Doing It Covertly for Over a Year
September 5, 2014
Mehdi Hasan
Why Is The Muslim World in Thrall to Conspiracy Theories?
August 11, 2014
Jessica Schulberg
Obama Wants to Put Torture Behind Us, But It Still Haunts Guantanamo Every Single Day
April 16, 2014
Kevin Rothrock
The U.S. Is Being Routed by Russia in the Information War Over Ukraine
April 16, 2014
Dave Cullen
The Tragicomedy of the 9/11 Trial
A report from Guantanamo Bay
January 7, 2014
Frederick Deknatel
The Secret World of American Spies in the Middle East
October 29, 2013
Luke Jerod Kummer
The Secular Syrian Opposition May Be Imploding
Fallout from the U.S.-Russia deal
October 7, 2013
Isaac Chotiner, Robert Baer
'Homeland' Episode Two: A Former CIA Agent Assesses
May 14, 2013
Julia Ioffe
The Spy Who Shot Himself in the Foot
What the blond-wigged accused spy may have been trying to learn
April 30, 2013
Kevin Mahnken
A Brief History of 'Bags of Cash'
The CIA's Afghanistan bribes join a long and storied genre
April 2, 2013
Mary Ellen O'Connell
Spy vs. Soldier
The CIA may lose a power it never legally had

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