The conflict with Iran is the latest in a decadeslong series of regime change operations, long-term entanglements, and all-out wars that always seem to invite more problems.
The agency has not made air travel safer but it has made it costlier and more time-consuming to fly.
The executive branch and the Senate have played hot potato with an infamous torture report, allowing the CIA to evade the Freedom of Information Act.
While the former congressman cares a lot about war powers, he has often flip-flopped on actually enforcing Congress’ red lines.
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.
Bolton says the Bush administration's biggest error in Iraq was failing to invade Iran too. That's madness.
Surveilling American citizens without due process, separating undocumented children from their parents, the TSA—the DHS has been a failure.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is singularly responsible for the war that began this week. But the past four presidential administrations missed opportunities to deescalate.
From the CDC to the FDA, there are too many missteps to list.
The U.S. has an interest in protecting its political system from manipulation by foreign enemies or their paid agents. But treason and espionage are already illegal, as is bribery.
This monument to the war on terror is still open, and it's costing taxpayers a fortune.
Some 93,000 immigrants were put through the NSEERS program without a single one being convicted on any terrorism charges.
Nearly a quarter century of American mistakes in Iraq
Both sides seem all-too-capable of repeating the same mistakes again.
Two decades of promiscuous intervention softened the ground for Putin's expansionism.
We're generating an atmosphere of perpetual, low-level anxiety and excuses for official harassment.
These panels are the equivalent of the participation awards handed out to every kid in little league.
From Lincoln to Obama, the Executive Branch Has Expanded its Reach
America's hostile attitude undercuts Iranian moderates and bolstered the hardliners
The media is either economically illiterate or deliberately biased on the matter.
Little daylight between the two
A bipartisan deficiency in transparency
Obama has carried forward Bush policies that are most expansive of government power.
