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October 7, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Insults Democrats by Comparing Them to an African Country
Donald Trump attempted to turn a foreign ethnicity into a slur.
June 5, 2025
Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani
Trump Signs Travel Ban Full of Contradictions
There doesn’t seem to be a lot of logic behind why some countries were added to the list.
April 15, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Eyes Next Victims for the Chopping Block: Entire Embassies
Donald Trump continues his disastrous push to shrink America’s global footprint.
February 1, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Republicans Move to Punish Ilhan Omar for Something She Never Said
If you don’t speak Somali, here is what Representative Ilhan Omar actually said.
August 19, 2019
MagazineKen Silverstein
Shock Corridor
The first inside report from an ICE mental health facility
April 19, 2018
MagazineMattathias Schwartz
The Case Against John Doe, American Jihadist
How a U.S. citizen captured on the battlefield with ISIS may finally force America to confront the legacy of 9/11
October 17, 2017
MagazineJennifer Wilson
Trump’s Air War
Far from being an isolationist, the president is one of the country's most hawkish in modern history.
May 15, 2017
MagazineTed Genoways
“The Only Good Muslim Is a Dead Muslim”
A meatpacking town in Kansas opened its doors to Somali refugees. Then a group of Trump supporters plotted to kill them after Election Day.
November 29, 2016
Nicole Narea
Right-wing media is using the Ohio State attack to push Trump’s proposed refugee ban.
November 7, 2014
Juan David Romero
Almost 600 Journalists Have Been Killed Worldwide Since 2006. Most Weren't War Reporters.
September 24, 2013
Eve Fairbanks
Africa's Obsession with Shopping Malls
Al Shabab attacked the perfect symbol of Kenya's rise
May 24, 2013
Mary Ellen O'Connell
Obama's Speech May Have Made His Drone Problem Worse
November 29, 2012
Daniel Byman
Al Qaeda’s Not as Battered as Obama Thinks
October 19, 2012
Eliza Griswold
The Terrifying Rise of Greece’s Nazi Party
October 19, 2012
Max Boot
After Abbottabad: Navy SEALs and American Security
June 29, 2012
Molly Redden
Why Scott Gration really resigned.
"Some people had to go to some real shit holes to escape him."
May 2, 2012
James Joyner
Why the Obama Administration’s Drone War May Soon Reach a Tipping Point
March 22, 2012
The New Republic Staff
Afghanistan Reconsidered: What the U.S. Should Do Now
March 14, 2012
Paul Berman
The Thought Police
December 14, 2011
Martin Peretz
Danger Zone

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