It’s not often that the unelected leader of a country which publicly flogs dissidents and beheads people for sorcery wins such glowing praise from American officials and the Western press. King Abdullah's regime engaged in wanton human rights abuses, instrumentalized religious chauvinism, and played a hugely counterrevolutionary role in regional politics.
This past week, Justice Department lawyers announced that they would not call reporter James Risen to testify and broadened protections for when journalists can be questioned about their sources.
Obama is about to tell us about his plans to “degrade and destroy” ISIS. He probably can't do that without cutting a deal with Iran.
In 2011, Hungarian researchers found an exquisitely sophisticated virus. Its target: the infrastructure of trust that makes the internet work.
American Gulet Mohamed was barred from coming home to his family in Virginia and beaten by Kuwaiti officials before being allowed back into the country. Now his case against the government has been allowed to proceed.
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