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Donald Rumsfeld
August 23, 2021
MagazineJordan Michael Smith
Twenty Years After 9/11, Are We Any Smarter?
Our foreign policy wise people responded to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by embracing belligerence. What, if anything, have they learned?
December 14, 2020
Nate Berg
The Man Who Wants to Take Down Bashar Al Assad
Wolfgang Kaleck is using the justice system to do what nation-states will not or cannot.
December 9, 2019
Adrian Bonenberger
Another Bright Shining Lie
The Afghanistan Papers reflect what we soldiers knew on the ground: "Victory" was always an empty talking point.
February 12, 2019
MagazinePatrick Iber
Off the Map
How the United States reinvented empire
May 17, 2018
MagazineKevin Baker
Nothing in All Creation Is Hidden
Why America needs truth and reconciliation after Trump
January 24, 2018
Graham Vyse
Donald Rumsfeld’s brain belongs in a museum.
October 18, 2017
Jeet Heer
Art Laffer and the Intellectual Rot of the Republican Party
The godfather of supply-side economics and inventor of the "Laffer Curve" is largely discredited by his peers, but revered by Trump and the GOP.
August 23, 2016
Ali Gharib
The Fog of Unknowing
How perpetual ignorance shapes the never-ending war on terror.
January 25, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Donald Rumsfeld really does have an iron-ass view of everything.
April 4, 2014
Matthew Wolfson
Errol Morris Is Wrong. Donald Rumsfeld Is a Known Known.
The scary consequences of reactionary conservatism
October 11, 2013
David Thomson
Donald Rumsfeld Is Finally Under Interrogation
“The Unknown Known”: The scope and limits of documentary
September 11, 2013
Julia Ioffe
My Train Ride with Donald Rumsfeld
A vignette
May 20, 2013
Michael Schaffer
The Hillary Clinton Movie: The Winners and Losers
A Hollywood screenplay is full of political notables. Who comes off looking best?
October 23, 2012
Marc Tracy
Why Is Dan Senor Considered a Serious Foreign Policy Thinker?
October 19, 2012
Max Boot
After Abbottabad: Navy SEALs and American Security
September 17, 2012
John B. Judis
Mock on, Maureen Dowd: Why She’s Right About the Neo-cons
May 2, 2012
James Joyner
Why the Obama Administration’s Drone War May Soon Reach a Tipping Point
March 14, 2012
Amitai Etzioni
Obama’s New Old Defense Strategy
February 1, 2012
Lawrence F. Kaplan
Stop Saying Our Wars Are Over, Mr. President. They’re Not.
June 3, 2011
Fouad Ajami
Robert Gates Is Right About Iraq

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