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June 5, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Mike Johnson Puts Dumbest People You Know on Intel Committee
One of the new members of the House Intelligence Committee is currently suing the FBI.
June 4, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Dan Crenshaw’s Paranoid Delusions of a “Woke” Military
Our death-dealing institutions are no less lethal, but Republicans are just that desperate for another front in the culture war.
November 9, 2020
Ankush Khardori
How to De-Trumpify the Justice Department
After four years of corruption and venality, can the country’s law enforcement agency be saved?
February 12, 2020
Jefferson Morley
Is the CIA’s Director Going Full MAGA?
Gina Haspel is not a typical Trump toady, but recent moves suggest a dangerous dynamic between the runaway president and his spy agency.
January 6, 2017
Brian Beutler
Donald Trump to Deep State: You suck! Please don’t hate me!
September 22, 2016
Jacob Silverman
The CIA Road Show
How the intelligence community has used "transparency" to create perfectly dull political theater.
August 27, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
OK, We're Hypocrites! It's Irrelevant to the Syria Debate.
January 9, 2013
Tim Weiner
Obama's Controversial CIA Pick Is the Best Man for the Job
December 21, 2012
David Thomson
"Zero Dark Thirty" Has All the Depth of a John Wayne Movie
December 19, 2012
Thomas Rogers
Why Can't Hollywood Get Technology Right?
November 28, 2012
William Galston
Not All Cabinet Posts Are Made the Same: How Obama Should Approach His Second Term Team
November 15, 2012
William Galston
The Military’s Laws on Adultery Make No Sense
November 9, 2012
Eileen Shim
That Was Fast! A Roundup of Petraeus Resignation Conspiracy Theories
November 2, 2012
Jonathan Schanzer
Did Israel and the U.S. Just Cooperate on a Dry-Run for an Iran Intervention?
October 26, 2012
Laura Bennett
“Homeland,” Argo, and the Changing Role of the Rogue CIA Agent
October 21, 2012
Alec MacGillis
Has Benghazi Opportunism Run Its Course?
October 19, 2012
Max Boot
After Abbottabad: Navy SEALs and American Security
October 16, 2012
Mark Bowden
Ben Affleck’s “Argo” Is Brilliant
September 29, 2012
Jordan Chandler Hirsch, Jeremy Dauber
Stop Calling “Homeland” The Anti-“24”
June 25, 2012
Tyler Golson
The Civil War in the Syrian Opposition: How Long Can the Free Syrian Army Hold Off Its Islamist Rivals?

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