Excerpt from ‘The Torture Report’ | Photo courtesy Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón On September 17, 2001, the United States took its first steps into a
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Insights | “Crude Democracy” Book Review
A woman walks past a gas pipeline near the city of Asaluyeh, Iran, Jan. 22, 2014. | Photo courtesy Xinhua News I remember once during a
Insights | Prophesying the Present: Michel Houellebecq’s “Submission”
Michel Houellebecq’s “Submission” should bear a trigger warning | Photo courtesy WSJ blogs With the French Presidential campaign in full swing, anti-Muslim sentiment has reached fever pitch
Insights | Making Sense of the Trump-Putin Relationship
Rumors of a special relationship between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin began to circulate months before election day, but it wasn’t
Insights | Gay, Palestinian, Israeli: Caught between conflicting identities
Jake Witzenfeld presented his documentary Oriented at New York University’s Gallatin School, sparking a conversation about identity crises on the Mediterranean shores. In the opening
Insights | A Leaderless Movement: Gordon Brown on Globalization
The room was filled with an impatient buzz. Students and faculty looked around, both admiring their surroundings and hoping to get a glimpse of
Insights | Is Footing the Peacekeeping Bill Enough?
Austria sends more. Uruguay, Yemen and Denmark send more. Even Finland sends more troops to United Nations peacekeeping missions than the United States, though its
Insights | Reducing Uncertainty
[Originally posted here] Books and movies often portray U.S. intelligence as a salacious world of secrets and spies, evoking images of Liam Neeson scaling buildings
The World We Lost and How We Get it Back: Book Review of Ill Fares the Land
Europe has lost its direction. Seven years after the financial crisis, most of the continent has still not recovered. An unresolved sovereign debt crisis, thousands
Insights | Slavoj Žižek talks about Greece and Syriza
It is incredibly difficult to listen to Slavoj Žižek without allowing his personality to obscure what may be utter brilliance and innovative thought on the