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Ten years to the day after American forces entered Afghanistan to hunt Al Qaeda, the United States faces a severely weakened but resilient foe. Osama Bin Laden is dead. The cleric who inspired many jihadists from his perch in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki, is too.

Some want to declare the fight against Al Qaeda over and done. We won, they say. Move on.

Wrong. The ugly reality is that Al Qaeda will be a lingering menace for years to come. The organization has been largely broken - but the ideology will continue to motivate people to kill.

Time contributor Amanda Ripley is a relative newcomer to education issues. "I spent my career writing about everything from abortion to terrorism to prisons, but none of these things compared to education," Ripley told me. "The nastiest emails I've ...

According to Bin Laden biographer Peter Bergen, Bin Laden's first and second wives divorced him, and two more wives have not been heard of since the 2001 bombing of Afghanistan. A fifth wife had their marriage annulled in the 1990s.

William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, told the Huffington Post that the potential $1 billion is a "relatively modest sum" in the context of America's annual military spending, which tops $700 ...

In a recent study produced by the New America Foundation, of the more than 200 drone strikes in Pakistan between 2004 and 2010, it is estimated that well ...

... Sascha Meinrath of the New America Foundation was equally vehement - from the other side. "The FCC has prioritized the profits of corporations like AT&T over those of the general public," he declared, ...

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"It's proof of life" for Al Qaeda's rank and file, said terror expert Peter Bergen of the New America Foundation, who once met the Saudi behind 9/11. ...

Oftentimes, American-style partisanship results in Republicans and Democrats fighting like two mindless gamecocks in the ring. Well, take your seats, because nothing brings out this combative behavior more than a Supreme Court nomination.

President Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court will kick off the usual bloodletting across the partisan divide. At 50 years of age, Kagan would be the youngest justice and, since justices are appointed for life, she easily could serve for more than three decades.

As many as 284 people have been killed in 35 strikes this year, according to the New America Foundation, ...

Peter Bergen, editor of Foreign Policy's AfPak channel, called the capture "huge." "Baradar is Mullah Omar's military commander and CEO," Bergen said. ...