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How Many Civilian Casualties of U.S. Drone Strikes?

by Avi Asher-Schapiro | Oct 17, 2016 | Foreign Policy, Politics

Since 2014, when President Barack Obama announced his intention to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the Islamic State, the United States and its allies have dropped more than 50,000 missiles and bombs on Iraq and Syria in over 15,000 separate strikes. That’s a bomb nearly every 20 minutes for two years. If even one of these bombs […]

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Letter from Sarajevo

by Belén Fernández | Oct 13, 2016 | Foreign Policy, Politics

Back in 1996, shortly after the end of the war in Bosnia, New York Times foreign affairs “sage” Thomas Friedman posed this question in his column: “What does Bosnia need today if it is going to be stabilized?” The answer, according to Friedman’s calculations: “Bosnia needs big tanks, big roads, and Big Macs.” To be […]

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Terrorism and the Biometrics Hustle

by Aaron Cantú | Oct 12, 2016 | Politics

Hours after a bomb went off in a dumpster in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City on September 17, another threat was found nearby. It was a pressure-cooker, packed with explosives. In short order, according to news reports, police disabled the homemade bomb, found a fingerprint on it, and also retrieved surveillance video featuring […]

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In the Rough

by Lou Dubose | Oct 5, 2016 | Election 2016, Politics

Donald Trump often says he was “getting into golf when everyone else was getting out.” “Golf is a large part of the portfolio of the Trump organization,” Trump’s associate corporate counsel observed in a West Palm Beach courtroom in August. Trump had added to that portfolio in 2011, buying his 18th course, in south Florida. […]

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All the Klan’s Men

by Stephanie Grace | Oct 4, 2016 | Election 2016, Politics

One of the many strange and unnerving episodes in Donald Trump’s long march to the GOP nomination was his attempt to avoid criticizing former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard and avowed anti-Semite David Duke, who 25 years ago came alarmingly close to being elected governor of Louisiana. Asked in February by CNN’s Jake Tapper to […]

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