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New America Welcomes Sharon E. Burke as Senior Advisor to International Security Program
WASHINGTON, DC— New America is pleased to announce that Sharon E. Burke will join its International Security Program as a Senior Advisor, starting ...
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What's at stake in war against girls' kidnappers?
Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, a militant Islamist organization, released a video on Monday claiming responsibility for kidnapping more...
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TESTIMONY: Drone Wars
The Constitutional and Counterterrorism Implications of Targeted Killing
The CIA drone program began quietly under President George W. Bush with one strike in Yemen in 2002, and then a smattering of strikes in Pakistan b...
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Obama's high-stakes drone war in Yemen
The U.S. drone campaign in Yemen is very much President Obama's war.
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Four things we learned about the Boston bombing
As is often the case with big news events, much of what we understood to be the case in the immediate aftermath of the event and what we now know a...
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U.S. right wing extremists more deadly than jihadists
Since 9/11, extremists affiliated with a variety of far-right wing ideologies, including white supremacists, anti-abortion extremists and anti-gove...
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11 things to know about world's biggest election
India's general election, the largest democratic exercise in history, begins Monday.
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The man who inspired the Boston bombings
One year after the Boston Marathon bombings and almost three years after his death in a CIA drone strike in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki, the New Mexico-...
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Strategic Empathy
The Afghanistan intervention shows why the U.S. must empathize with its adversaries
As the United States withdraws from Afghanistan, it leaves violence and uncertainty in its wake. The election of a new Afghan president gives some ...
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What if the Afghan elections actually work?
Afghans will go to the polls on Saturday to elect their second president since the overthrow of the Taliban in the winter of 2001. You might be won...
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Why the Saudis unfriended the U.S.
What went wrong? In recent months the normally hyper-discreet Saudis have gone on the record about their dissatisfactions with the Obama administra...
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Get the government out of your phone records
The Obama administration is proposing to scrap the NSA's bulk collection of all Americans' phone call records. The administration's proposal is emi...
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Pakistan sheltered Bin Laden? Prove it
It is, of course, hard to prove negatives, but having spent around a year reporting intensively on the hunt for al Qaeda's leader for my 2012 book ...
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TESTIMONY: After the Withdrawal
The Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan
This past Saturday, March 16, 2013 marked an extraordinary moment in Pakistan’s history, as this is the first time that a civilian government has s...
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Did terrorists take control of Flight 370?
Could the mystery of Malaysia Airlines 370 then be explained as an act of terrorism?
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Plane takeovers a dangerous reality
Air Safety Week, an aviation industry magazine, ran a story in January 2001 observing that, "the number of cases where the sanctity of the cockpit ...
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Dianne Feinstein is no bomb thrower
In an angry speech, Feinstein asserted that the CIA has violated federal laws by covertly removing classified documents from her committee's comput...
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When passenger jets mysteriously disappear
Nothing gets conspiracy theorists going more than a passenger plane crashing under mysterious circumstances.
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Cyberwar hits Ukraine
Ukrainian security officials are complaining that unknown attackers are interfering with the mobile phone services of members of Ukraine's parliame...
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Forecasts of terrorist apocalypse? Never mind
One topic where pundits, politicians and prognosticators of every persuasion don't have any problem about making pessimistic predictions is terrorism.
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Will the U.S. negotiate with terrorists?
The U.S. government's long-stated position is that it won't negotiate with terrorists. But are there exceptions?
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Target an American with drones?
President Barack Obama is the first American president known to have authorized the assassination of a US citizen.