Obama and Bush: Two Very Different Wars
Former officials are taking credit for bin Laden's death, but the current president has corrected his predecessor's misguided thinking
Former officials are taking credit for bin Laden's death, but the current president has corrected his predecessor's misguided thinking
The verbal slip-up doesn't just happen because the words are similar. It has to do with how the brain processes language.
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The political legacy of opposition to apartheid has devolved into hostility toward the West -- and sympathy for anyone else engaged in "anti-imperial struggle"
A beauty of a quote from Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal, digging in on the question of whether it was right or wrong for the U.S. to assassinate the mass murderer Osama Bin Laden
The president was somber during his visit to honor 9/11 victims, but crowds nearby were raucous and still talking about Osama bin Laden
The National Geospatial Agency mapped bin Laden's compound, analyzed drone data, and helped the SEALs simulate their mission
Days after Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden, the president lays a wreath at the site of the 9/11 attacks but does not make a speech
Conservatives still look for reasons to call the president weak. It's going to backfire.
Understanding an ally that hides terrorists even as it kills many of them
As pundits rush to apply historical significance to any big event, from the Challenger disaster to slaying Osama, real meaning can be trivialized
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