In a rare display of candor, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and former Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson reflected on torture, Guantanamo Bay, and the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.
This regulation didn't make anyone safer but it did make it harder to build nuclear energy projects in the United States.
The hawkish defender of Guantanamo Bay and the post-9/11 security state worries President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown is threatening civil liberties.
The government has given itself special powers to deal with crimes that it could already prosecute.
The two-time Libertarian Party presidential nominee shares his thoughts on Chase Oliver and the election.
From 9/11 to the COVID-19 pandemic, crisis moments keep reshaping the political landscape.
War on Terror fears and the CIA’s torture program kept Khalid Sheikh Mohammed out of civilian courts—and prevented true justice from being served.
The White House announced a “near final” defense pact with Saudi Arabia yesterday, just as new evidence about Saudi links to 9/11 is emerging.
It supposedly bans financing terrorism, but that's already illegal. It's really a power grab for the secretary of the treasury.
Competing FISA Section 702 reauthorization bills will reach the House floor next week, Speaker Johnson says.
Department of Homeland Security
Break it up into fewer, smaller agencies that are more accountable to pre-9/11 departments.
Surveilling American citizens without due process, separating undocumented children from their parents, the TSA—the DHS has been a failure.
A surveillance state is no less tyrannical when the snoops really believe it's for your own protection.
The bill also gives TSA employees the power to collectively bargain, which means more pay raises are likely in the future.
The Transportation Security Administration is one of the more useless, invasive appendages of the post-9/11 security state. It’s well past time to get rid of it.
But a few remnants of post-9/11 foreign and domestic policy still need to be thrown out.
Plus: Judge rejects "terrorism" label for January 6 defendant, dozens of abortion clinics have closed since June, FTC staff recommended against Meta lawsuit, and more...
The Joy of Trash author talks about how D.A.R.E., bad TV, Weird Al Yankovic, and 9/11 created a generation of ironic idealists.
The former Texas congressman and presidential candidate says his goal was to get people to think about freedom.
All of this is a transparent effort to stop lawsuits from those who have been tortured.
Our drones still patrol the skies, and our tax dollars will be paying off the costs of failed nation-building for decades.
Two decades after 9/11, the government's appetite for spying has only grown.
No matter what the public wants, crises typically leave the state more powerful.
Pete Buttigieg attracted some criticism for taking time off. But it's telling that no one initially realized he was gone.
Karla Vermeulen's Generation Disaster: Coming of Age Post-9/11 is a starting place to mend the new generation gap.
Rafia Zakaria's controversial Against White Feminism challenges the status of icons like Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, and Eve Ensler.
Young people who came of age after 9/11 aren't snowflakes despite being exposed to a series of catastrophic events and apocalyptic news narratives.
There will likely never be a full accounting of the war's cost, but as much as $600 billion might have simply vanished due to waste, fraud, and incompetence.
Paul Schrader's story of an ex-military torturer is a searing tale of violence and redemption.
COVID-19 and 9/11 both created opportunities to restrict our liberties in the name of keeping us safe.
We may have misinterpreted 9/11 as a harbinger, when it was really just an outlier.
History is repeating itself in ways that we, and our kids, will live to regret.
Twenty years after 9/11, weaponry and surveillance gear originally developed for the military have become commonplace in police departments around the country.
National security reporter Spencer Ackerman on 9/11, mass surveillance at home, and failed wars abroad.
While liquid limits are common, America's shoe removal policy is nearly unique, and many countries allow small pocket knives.
We were warned about the dangerous power of the USA PATRIOT Act. Edward Snowden proved that critics were justified.
Department of Homeland Security
The consolidation of numerous unrelated government agencies within a single department has led to decades of waste, mismanagement, and terrible abuses of authority.
The Reign of Terror author on fighting surveillance and interventionism done in the name of stopping jihad.
Historian Stephen Wertheim says two decades of failed wars have finally made America more likely to embrace military restraint.
Plus, why is no one talking about the Medicare Trustees' entitlement report?
As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, prepare for the many, many looks back.
"You don’t get to lose a war and expect the result to look like you won it," says the author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy.
More than half of Americans don’t have these new licenses. Airports are supposed to start checking them by October.
It's unscientific, wastes precious resources, and keeps Americans unjustifiably scared of the virus.
Retired FBI agent Ali Soufan argues that the agency's thirst for torture made it harder to protect Americans.
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