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Foreign Policy Staffers Unionize
Hamilton Nolan · 06/23/16 04:50PMDonald Trump Wants the United States to Run a Global Protection Racket
Brendan O'Connor · 03/26/16 02:05PMEXCLUSIVE: Is This a Preview of Ted Cruz’s Border Defense Policy?
Ashley Feinberg · 02/02/16 05:35PMBen Carson, Knower of States Both Arab and Non-Arab, May Be Struggling with Foreign Policy
Chris Thompson · 11/17/15 09:13PMWhen Will Obama Force Putin to Stop, Without Using Force?
Tom Scocca · 03/03/14 05:35PMAmerica's Cold-Blooded Syrian Stalemate Policy
Hamilton Nolan · 10/03/13 02:27PMPeggy Noonan Knows How Foreigners Think
Hamilton Nolan · 09/20/13 09:25AMMax Read · 06/05/13 12:49PM
The CIA's Program to Spread Polio in Pakistan is Working
Tom Scocca · 05/29/13 01:56PMTwo health-care workers were shot yesterday, one fatally, in Peshawar, Pakistan, leading the World Health Organization to suspend polio vaccinations there. Though no one has reportedly taken credit for the attack, it fits with an ongoing anti-vaccination terror campaign by the Pakistani Taliban, which believes health workers are agents of a western conspiracy. This belief is unfortunately not untrue.
Obama to Limit Drone Strikes and Discuss Endgame for 'War on Terror'
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 05/23/13 07:31AMWatch Video of America Giving Aerial Support to a Jamaican Massacre
John Cook · 05/02/13 11:29AMTwo years ago, the New Yorker's Mattathias Schwartz documented the brutal massacre Jamaican security forces undertook when they entered the notorious slum Tivoli Gardens to arrest—at the insistence of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency—drug kingpin and local hero Christopher "Dudus" Coke in 2010. They didn't find Coke, but they managed to kill 73 civilians in what the Jamaicans claimed was a pitched street battle with Coke's partisans. After it was all over, they found six guns.
Obama Foreign Policy Whiz is Full of Personal Anguish and Has an Unfinished Novel
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 03/16/13 10:29AMBenjamin J. Rhodes was just a run-of-the-mill New York prep school kid working on a novel, when the events of 9/11 changed him forever. Now an intervention-favoring deputy national security adviser for the President, Rhodes, 35, is filled with anguish at the suffering of people the world over, trying to be free:
The Insane and Devastating Costs of the War in Iraq
Hamilton Nolan · 03/15/13 11:38AMTen years ago next week, the United States invaded Iraq. The ensuing decade of war would destroy Iraq, kill hundreds of thousands of civilians and soldiers, and cost trillions of dollars. It was not worth it. Not even close. A new accounting from the Costs of War project at Brown University lays bare just how much blood and treasure ten years of the War in Iraq has cost. For example:
Wall Street Journal Fires Iraq Reporter Who Slept With White House Source
John Cook · 06/12/12 01:26PME-Mails Show Wall Street Journal Iraq Reporter Was Sleeping With Obama's Nominee for Ambassador to Iraq
John Cook · 06/07/12 02:59PM"You can't fuck the elephants while you're covering the circus" is an old journalistic maxim—often attributed to the Washington Post's Ben Bradlee the New York Times' Abe Rosenthal—delineating the boundaries of appropriate reporter-source relationships. Sleep with whomever you want, in other words, with the exception of the people you write about. If recently released email exchanges between the Wall Street Journal's Gina Chon and a former National Security Council official turn out to be as real as they seem, then it looks like Chon fucked a big ol' elephant.