Seventeen Guantánamo inmates of Uighur origin may soon be leaving Cuba for Palau.
By Spiegel staff Jun 10, 2009
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Beck: It's not the right wing's fault that crazy lefties are killing people to protest Obama's policies. Say what?
By Gabriel Winant
June 11, 2009
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The alleged Holocaust Museum shooter published a book called "Kill the Best Gentiles." Read selections here.
By Mark Benjamin
June 10, 2009
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This American president's empathy with the Arab/Muslim world could be a crucial first step in brokering peace.
By Gary Kamiya
June 5, 2009
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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