The Fluffiest Praise of Ted Cruz You're Likely to Encounter
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Conor Friedersdorf is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he focuses on politics and national affairs. He lives in Venice, California, and is the founding editor of The Best of Journalism, a newsletter devoted to exceptional nonfiction.
Jim DeMint's paean in Politico is unintentionally revealing. More »
Stigmatizing shoddy work results in less of it. More »
The law ought to be accessible to the average person, he argued during an appearance at Harvard. More »
A thought experiment about the War on Terrorism, starring President Double-O-bama More »
President Obama's defenders keep citing sui generis conflicts to justify his actions in radically different circumstances. More »
An Air Force simulation says researchers are at work on killer robots so tiny that a group of them could blend into a cityscape. More »
Guaranteeing workers 25 cents an hour took two decades, a public scandalized by prostitution, a states'-rights rebellion, a Great Depression, a Supreme Court battle, and a lot of patriarchy. More »
They insist the program is a state secret, even though Obama officials talk about it constantly. I've even caught 'em on camera! More »
The White House won't say whether it thinks Barack Obama is so empowered. More »
Kira Davis's questioning of the president about transparency and drones during a Google Plus hangout was a demonstration of excellent citizen journalism. More »
The odds that an American will die in a terrorist attack are minuscule. So why are so many willing to sacrifice civil liberties and foreign innocents to keep safe? More »
They no longer emphasize blowback, have stopped adequately valuing checks and balances, and assume that perpetual war is the only option. More »
His smoothly delivered State of the Union response showed his major weakness as a speaker: the staleness of his rhetoric. More »
The MSNBC anchor adds, "I wonder if some in this nation are getting a little soft when they are defending the civil liberties of Al Qaeda members." More »
The Atlantic will take on the controversial novel in a multi-part discussion that begins February 18. More »
The powerful Democratic senator says that fewer than 10 civilians per year are typically killed by America's targeted killing program -- despite extensive evidence to the contrary. More »
Despite numerous objections to his drone program, Krystal Ball says she is comfortable ceding the power to kill to the president. More »
Senator Dianne Feinstein and presumptive CIA Director John Brennan agree that it is disturbing. So shouldn't it be public? More »
Even if he has the authority to order strikes on Al Qaeda, that doesn't justify keeping quiet when noncombatants are hit instead. More »
If Charles Krauthammer really doesn't understand the objections to drone strikes he should pay closer attention. More »
