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"For several nights after the curfew was declared on 14 August, the streets of Cairo were quieter and..." 25 Aug 2013 | 04:06 pm
“For several nights after the curfew was declared on 14 August, the streets of Cairo were quieter and darker than I’d ever seen them. As quiet as the morgue, the saying goes, except that our morgue, i...
From the National Journal — some of the more artistic... 22 Aug 2013 | 02:14 am
From the National Journal — some of the more artistic redactions in the just-released FISA court ruling from October 2011 in which it ruled that the NSA’s gathering of tens of thousands of Americans’ ...
FYI: I won't be posting This Week in War this coming Friday 17 Aug 2013 | 09:24 pm
I’m moving to go to graduate school at the end of this coming week and won’t be officially settled in enough to put the post together. It will be back the week after, though!
This Week in War. A Friday round-up of what happened and what’s... 16 Aug 2013 | 04:32 pm
This Week in War. A Friday round-up of what happened and what’s been written in the world of war and military/security affairs this week. It’s a mix of news reports, policy briefs, blog posts and long...
inothernews: The man who wrote this classic New York... 16 Aug 2013 | 01:44 am
inothernews: The man who wrote this classic New York Post headline just got fired by… the New York Post. (Capital New York via Romenesko)
"In conclusion, I find that the City is liable for violating plaintiffs’ Fourth and Fourteenth..." 12 Aug 2013 | 06:53 pm
“In conclusion, I find that the City is liable for violating plaintiffs’ Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. The City acted with deliberate indifference toward the NYPD’s practice of making uncons...
"At that time, the United States was throwing money at anyone who could deliver an out-of-town Arab..." 12 Aug 2013 | 06:38 pm
“ At that time, the United States was throwing money at anyone who could deliver an out-of-town Arab found in the region. Nabil was sold to the United States for a bounty of $5,000 and taken to an un...
Evasive maneuvers: centering the debate on Snowden 10 Aug 2013 | 09:26 pm
A statement I’ve seen repeatedly embraced in the wake of the revelations in the beginning of the summer about the NSA and its vast surveillance dragnets is that while they are “glad to know” about the...
"Four trucks out, three trucks back." 9 Aug 2013 | 09:47 pm
“Four trucks out, three trucks back.” - Six Word War is a crowdsourced memoir project seeking war stories from veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan by Mike Nemeth and Shaun Wheelwright, two Hemingway-in...
Today is the fifth anniversary of Palestinian poet Mahmoud... 9 Aug 2013 | 07:40 pm
Today is the fifth anniversary of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s death. In honor of that, here is a beautiful video of a reading of his poem “The Dice Player,” with animated calligraphy and a subt...
