A judge ruled that the FBI was allowed to arrest an air passenger for no reason other than carrying flash cards for learning Arabic.

Is studying Arabic more suspect than already knowing how to speak Arabic? If not, then how about arresting people only for knowing Arabic?

A drone combat analyst explains that the image is so fuzzy that they can't tell whether someone is armed.

Obama keeps selling arms to Saudi Arabia despite its repression of human rights activists.

The background of the Dinka-Nuer conflict in South Sudan.

Many Americans have been led to believe that the prime culprit of the financial crisis was the government, rather than the banksters.

The right wing strategy is, after each thing they do to hurt Americans, to get Americans to curse the government for it, rather than recapture the government and use it for democracy.

This article makes a common mistake in its rhetoric: it says that "we" have done some foolish thing, in a way that implies we have all participated in it. That's not only unfair, it is also defeatist.