Just as there are good dictators and bad dictators in Washington’s eyes, there are also good terrorists and bad terrorists: Al Qaeda in Iraq, bad. Al Qaeda in Syria, good. Al Qaeda in Mali, bad .Al Qaeda in Libya, good, now bad. This hypocrisy manifests

itself most acutely in how western media reports on the victims of terror. On the same day as the recent Boston bombings, at least 75 people were killed in Iraq and more than 250 injured by a series of car bombs.

He has few constraints (except those he’s internalized). No one can stop him or countermand his orders. 

During his speech, journalist Jeremy Scahill, who has done in-depth reporting on the US drone program...

Typically, the stings initially target suspects for pure speech — comments to an informer outside a mosque,...

Padilla’s treatment constituted a test case for the incommunicado detention and torture of US citizens...

Real or not, their appearance gave the United States something new to chew over.

Nashiri is charged with being a key organizer of Al Qaeda's attack on the U.S. destroyer Cole on Oct. 12, 2000,...

At the time of the Church Committee, it was the FBI that conducted most domestic surveillance. 

In the end, the judge rendered the issue moot by approving Nashiri's motion to meet with his lawyers unshackled, without calling him to the stand.

The CIA is seeking authority to expand its covert drone campaign in Yemen by launching strikes against terrorism suspects even when it does not know the identities of those who could be killed, U.S. officials said.

With the presidential nomination all but locked up, an examination of Romney's foreign policy pronouncements and the team advising...

With last week’s announcement that charges against Khalid Shaikh Mohammad and his four co-defendants had been authorized,...

When he googled a phone number provided by the second man, it turned out to be to Shahed Hussain,...

New York, NY - The flood of reports about the New York City Police Department's surveillance of American Muslims...

That open-endedness remains a problem that the Guantánamo prisoners do not share with those in the domestic prison system who were sentenced in a courtroom,...

Four years ago Barack Obama rightly promised to close Guantanamo Bay, but when it came to the crunch,...

Steven Goldberg ’72 is part of the legal team challenging the National Security Agency’s warrantless wireless wiretap of an Islamic charity in southern Oregon.

As I have been explaining since May 2009, when the New York Times published a misleading front-page...

Despite an idealistic vision of the country's devotion to the Constitution and its Bill of Rights amendments,...

Rick Santorum’s departure from the Republican presidential race means that America probably won’t witness...

Elections are decided by economics. Voters respond to pocketbook issues and are swayed by the huge...

Polls already show that a majority of American and Israeli Jews want peace and the removal of most...

Making foreign policy in a democracy is not easy. On top of the customary challenges of devising...

Noam Chomsky has seen a lot of social movements. He cut his teeth on the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

One defendant in a recent case, Hemant Lakhani, agreed to sell missiles to an undercover FBI agent ...

Over the decades, the maintenance of power and class privileges by corporate, financial and political elites have...

The five men will be officially notified of the charges at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, where they have been locked up — and critics say often tortured — for the past decade.

As the Pentagon begins to wind down the war in Afghanistan, the smaller conflicts elite U.S. forces are fighting around the world are heating up.

At a memorial service this week for the 32-year-old wife and mother of five, Salam Al-Marayati,...

Keith Ellison and Andre Carson receive considerable attention as the first two Muslims to serve in the U.S. Congress.