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Five disastrous Middle East policies that the president must show he's rejected.
By Gary Kamiya
June 4, 2009
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A new study finds the tactic is worse than useless in combating terrorism.
By Andrew Curry
May 27, 2009
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Cheney's hostile speech only highlighted President Obama's commitment to American standards of liberty
By Joe Conason
May 22, 2009
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President Obama gives a speech on Guantanamo Bay, torture and national security
May 21, 2009
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Those teenage high-seas renegades are not about to team up with terrorists, so why is the U.S. military devoting so much attention to them?
By John Feffer
April 24, 2009
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Judge Jay S. Bybee provided the legal framework for torture to the Bush administration. If he had even a particle of decency, he'd resign.
By Gene Lyons
April 23, 2009
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The "ticking bomb" scenario only happens on TV. Those, like Dick Cheney, who cite it are leading society down a fatal slippery slope of abuse.
By Gary Kamiya
April 23, 2009
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Homeland Security is concerned that today's political and economic climate is similar to the one that inspired Timothy McVeigh.
By Alex Koppelman
April 14, 2009
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What will Obama do with Guantanamo's single largest group of detainees? One hundred Yemenis wait to go home -- but those who've already returned to Yemen didn't find a warm welcome.
By Letta Tayler
March 29, 2009
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Ex-Petraeus advisor David Kilcullen warns that if Western forces aren't willing to stick around in Iraq and Afghanistan, extremists will continue turning the locals into weapons.
By Laura Miller
March 11, 2009
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The president needs to end Bush's disastrous policies at the Bagram Air Base prison in Afghanistan.
By Karen Greenberg
March 9, 2009
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In an era of wealth and excess, 19th century French anarchists introduced terrorism as we know it. Can a fascinating new history help us understand our own violent times?
By Andrew O'Hehir
February 27, 2009
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A former radical who is now working to combat religious extremism explains the Islamist mind-set.
By Yassin Musharbash
February 17, 2009
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A truth commission is a good idea. But unlikely. Instead Obama should grant immunity to those who publicly testify about torture and spying.
By Joe Conason
February 13, 2009
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By rejecting Bush's torture tactics, the new president is urging Americans to reclaim their principles -- and their courage.
By Gary Kamiya
January 27, 2009
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News network reports that FBI, Homeland Security circulated a bulletin last night about jihadist threat of "limited credibility."
By Gabriel Winant
January 20, 2009
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The judge ordered the release of a detainee accused of belonging to a London terror cell at a time when he was 11, and lived in Saudi Arabia.
By Gabriel Winant
January 15, 2009
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With just four weeks till Obama's inauguration, the Bush administration's military commissions are supposed to be history. So why does the government act like they'll continue past January 20?
By Stacy Sullivan
December 23, 2008
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A '60s activist-turned-vigilante is tortured by a handsome interrogator in Glen Duncan's gripping new novel. So which one is the villain?
By Andrew O'Hehir
December 17, 2008
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In Guantánamo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-defendants don't know the rules -- and neither does the judge.
By Jennifer Daskal
December 11, 2008
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President-elect Obama has pledged to close the infamous military prison in Cuba. So why are people trying to give him the right to start all over again?
By Jameel Jaffer and Ben Wizner
December 9, 2008
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The terrorists who attacked Mumbai struck the heart of city life.
By Gary Kamiya
December 2, 2008
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Sarah Palin called him a terrorist, Barack Obama called him an acquaintance. A Salon editor who knew Ayers back when talks to the ex-Weather Underground member turned Republican talking point.
By Walter Shapiro
November 17, 2008
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President Bush could pardon officials involved in brutal interrogations -- but he may also face a sweeping investigation under the new president.
By Mark Benjamin
November 13, 2008
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The inside story of a military lawyer who discovered stunning injustice at the heart of the Bush administration's military commissions.
By Stacy Sullivan
October 23, 2008
Obama's Cairo mission: Don't be Bush
Ethnic profiling doesn't stop terror
Another round for democracy
"As president, I refuse to allow this problem to fester"
Our misguided fight against Somali pirates
The shaming of America
Torture works sometimes -- but it's always wrong
DHS report warns of rightwing extremism
You can't go home (to Yemen) again
Meet the accidental guerrillas
Obama's Guantánamo?
Bomb the middle class
The radical Islamist who came in from the cold
Pardon the Bush miscreants
Obama's call to arms
Goodbye to Guantánamo?
All-American terrorist
Chaos in the 9/11 courtroom
Don't replace the old Guantánamo with a new one
Tourists from Hell
Bill Ayers talks back
Obama's plans for probing Bush torture
Confessions of a former Guantánamo prosecutor
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