Illiberal populists all over the world are benefiting from three simultaneous backlashes.
In the ISIS War, Congress Surrendered the Last of Its Authority to Regulate U.S. Wars
When the president wants to fulfill a constitutional duty — like nominating a Supreme Court justice — Congress is up in arms. When he launches a blatantly unconstitutional war, it shrugs.
Will 3-D-Printers Produce Nuclear Weapons One Day?
Hard to believe, but one day 3-D printers may be able to produce nuclear weapons and other WMDs.
A Letter to My Grandson
Someday in the distant future, I hope you’ll read this letter and smile indulgently at my worst fears.
Crying ‘Lone Wolf’
The threat of “lone-wolf” terrorist attacks is greatly overblown. More worrying is what the security state “shepherds” are doing in the name of preventing them.
Citizenfour’s Personality Problem
In focusing more on his travails than his revelations, a new film on Edward Snowden does just what Snowden himself had hoped to avoid.
Our National Security State Knows Everything about You but Nothing about the World
Americans are trading away their privacy, civil liberties, and billions of tax dollars for an intelligence complex that never seems to know what’s going on in the world.
Modi’s Muslim Problem—And Ours
A culture of Islamophobia continues to poison the politics of both India and the United States.
Perpetual War: How Does the Global War on Terror Ever End?
This epilogue to Scahill’s bestselling book, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield, is posted with the kind permission of its publisher, Nation Books. On January 21, 2013, Barack Obama was inaugurated for his second term as president of the United States. Just as he...
The NSA Isn’t Foiling Terrorist Plots
U.S. officials claim that the government’s massive data collection has protected the country from terrorist attacks. After The Guardian’s first revelations about the National Security Agency’s digital surveillance programs, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairman of the...