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According to Afghan expert Steve Coll, from 1986 to 1992 the Soviets, through their politically adept Afghan strongman President Mohammad Najibullah, ...

In a recent series of blogs in The New Yorker, Steve Coll brilliantly captures the essence of the problem. Sections of it are well worth quoting: "The ...

Maya MacGuineas, president the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, called the maneuver a "bait and switch." "This is a dead-of-night move to very ... and more »

Renowned terrorist expert Peter Bergen, one of the very few journalists to interview al-Qaida chief Osama Bin Laden before Sept. ... and more »

According to Frida Berrigan of the New America Foundation's Arms and Security Initiative, sales in the first half of 2009 reached $27 billion and could hit ...

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget said the United States was "drowning in unprecedented levels of red ink, and there is no plan to fix the situation."

... of a new government in Israel is very much under way," says Daniel Levy, senior fellow at the Century Foundation and at the New America Foundation. ...

... leaders to accomplish this have been a constant refrain in bin Laden's rhetoric for more than a decade, according to al-Qaida expert Peter Bergen. ...

... "the opposite of what we're trying to do to the economy," Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget told the newspaper.

A former U.S. military official says U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney may have known military personnel were using torture techniques on Iraqi detainees.

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson told a House panel he thought leadership failed "at the highest levels of the Pentagon, in the vice president's office and perhaps even in the Oval Office," The Washington Times reported Thursday.

Wilkerson's testimony followed a report by a human rights group that detainees in U.S. military facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba., Iraq and Afghanistan were… more