The CIA Torture Program: A Case of Can’t Control or Won’t Control?
Guest post by Neil Mitchell The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence tells us that America’s ineffective torture policy…
Friday Puzzler: Fear Not Cuba, Unless You’re Republican
By Barbara F. Walter Republican rancor began as soon as the U.S.’s new policy toward Cuba was announced…
Do Revelations of Injustice Increase Violence?
By Erica Chenoweth Critics of the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s use of…
States of Fear and Killing AFROzilla
By Christian Davenport Over the last few incidents involving the police and African Americans, we have repeatedly been…
The Case for Coalitions of the Unwilling
By Lionel Beehner For months, it was believed that the patchwork of 40-plus countries recruited in the fight…
Who is Doing What in Counter-ISIS Campaign?
By Steve Saideman The Atlantic Council has an interesting graphic about the missions in/over Syria/Iraq. It is a…
Friday Puzzler
By Barbara F. Walter A fascinating study was just published in International Organization by four researchers at UCSD. The study…
What If There Was a War, but Nobody Came?
By Will H. Moore Back in 2012 I contributed a post here that was a list of anti-war…
The North Korean Paper Trail
By Leslie Vinjamuri Last Tuesday, a United Nations General Assembly committee condemned North Korea for its appalling human rights…
Local Ceasefires in Syria: What Are the Prospects?
By Oliver Kaplan What are the prospects for local efforts to reduce the killing in Syria? So far,…