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The Best Watchdog Journalism on Obama’s National Security Policies

President Barack Obama listens during one in a series of meetings discussing the mission against Osama bin Laden, in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011. (Getty Images) Inspired by The…
PUBLISHED: June 1, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (913 words)

My war: How I got irony in the infantry

Over the past few years I find I’ve written a great deal about war, which is odd because I’m supposed to be a professor of English literature. And I find I’ve given the Second…
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6422 words)

Frank Lindh: America's barbaric treatment of my son John Walker Lindh

John Phillip Walker Lindh, my son, was raised a Roman Catholic, but converted to Islam when he was 16 years old. He has an older brother and a younger sister. John isscholarly and devout,…
PUBLISHED: July 10, 2011
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6451 words)
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