Yemen

A new book by Obama’s ambassador to the U.N. won't honestly tell us what she saw on the mountaintop because she wants to get back there.

Any discussion of why Hillary Clinton lost, or what the Democrats must reform, is woefully incomplete if it excludes this issue.

The war on terror framework continues to savage the world’s poorest civilians.

Obama was explicitly warned the U.S. could be liable as a war crimes participant. That changed nothing.

What’s the impact of believing that only They, but not We, engage in civilian-killing violence?

Elite sectors of the West want everyone to avert their eyes from this deep and close relationship with the Saudis for good reason: It single-handedly destroys almost every propagandistic narrative told to the Western public about that region.

Journalism is most valuable when it is devoted to what is most difficult: focusing on the bad acts of one’s own side, holding accountable those who wield power in one’s own country, and challenging the orthodoxies most cherished by one’s own society.

For the NYT to tell its readers that the U.S. — one of the leading cluster bomb states on the planet — is actually one of the countries that “have not yet joined the treaty but have abided by its provisions” is nationalistic propaganda of the most extreme kind.