Thomas Drake, a brilliant intelligence analyst, software engineer, and IT management consultant, worked at the CIA in the 1980s, then as a contractor at the National Security Agency (NSA), and ultimately as an NSA senior executive in 2001. But from 2006 until July 2011, he became the government’s and NSA’s public enemy. Why? From his […]

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Reviewed: The World America Made by Robert Kagan (Knopf, 160 pp., $21). Robert Kagan is a neocon’s neocon, a veteran of the Reagan State Department and a leading honcho of the Project for a New American Century group

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Today, a woman seeking an abortion in Texas must first submit to an ultrasound examination that detects the fetal heartbeat, which must be audible to the woman preparing for the abortion, who must be told what she is hearing. Because 90 percent of abortions are done in the first trimester of a pregnancy when the heartbeat is not detectable with an external ultrasound scan, penetration […]

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in her book The Sociopath Next Door, she quoted murderer Barbara Graham: “Good people are always so sure they’re right.” Wrong, says Stout: Good people are forever wondering if they’re right, questioning themselves, striving to be better. While it would be foolish to argue that only liberals are good people, psychologists are finding that the tolerance of […]

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The movement to save electoral democracy by requiring states to enact voter-identification laws began with a whimper. In 2005, Mark “Thor” Hearne, a lawyer who had worked for the Bush-Cheney political campaign, founded the American Center for Voting Rights.

The center produced one 72-page report: “Vote Fraud, Intimidation, & Suppression in the 2004 Presidential Election,” which was submitted to a House committee chaired by Ohio Congressman Bob Ney (who would later do time for his role in the Jack Abramoff scandal).

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