In February 2014, Noah Bryson Mamet told the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee that he had never been to Argentina. He was speaking at...

Two days after The New York Times published an article detailing the repeated attempts of Cubans to reach the United States, the...

The recent on-campus screening of Oil and Water, a movie about two boys confronting the exploitation of the natural resources of the...

Last Monday outside an Egyptian courtroom, families wept and women fainted after a judge passed down a mass death sentence to more than...

The Internet was born in the United States as a project of the US Department of Defense and has always enjoyed a close relationship with...

Exaggeration serves no purpose when it comes to the Syrian crisis. From horrifying tales of rebel extremists eating hearts of dead men to...

The good news is that the nuclear talks in Vienna between Iran and the major global powers have so far delivered quite optimistic...

I was curious yesterday why CNN and the Wall Street Journal were ostensibly publishing restaurant recommendations when I repeatedly read,...

The podcast Radiolab recently devoted an hour to the 60 words they say became the “the legal foundation for the ‘war on terror.'” The...

The year President George W. Bush left office Jane Mayer published “The Dark Side,” a scathing, revelatory piece on the Bush...

Dozens of Malaysian protesters recently dressed up like zombies to demonstrate what they perceive to be a fast-approaching, grim reality...

By I Naishad Kai-ren At the World Economic Forum in January, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stoked international controversy when he...

On Monday, Judge Bruce Selya spoke at the Watson Institute in an event titled “The View from Inside the FISA Courts.” Selya is a federal...

As Angela Merkel knows, United States authorities have a tricky relationship with phone privacy. After revelations of ongoing tapping of...

Donald Verrilli, Jr., Solicitor General of the United States. U.S. Gov’t Work, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. The implications of the...

In the years after the Vietnam War ended, Americans were said to have suffered “Vietnam syndrome,” a cultural condition that led to...

Despite the United States’ sizable standing army and worldwide military presence, a distinct divide remains in the country between the...

After intense talks with six world powers including the United States, on November 23rd Iran agreed to curb its nuclear program.  The...

It’s not often we get to feel sorry for an elected politician. Government shutdown here, Weinergate there, a Parliamentary expenses...

I’m thankful for America. Does this mean I believe in American exceptionalism? It’s a question I’ve sometimes asked myself. For...