War on Terror
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The U.S. Is Losing Yet Another 'War on Terror'
The Pentagon last month quietly released a report revealing that — despite sending forces to at least 22 countries in Africa — the U.S. isn't reaching its objectives
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How the War on Terror Gave Us Trump
Spencer Ackerman's new book, "Reign of Terror," shows how 'Make America Great Again' was fueled by 20 years of forever-war failures
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How Post-9/11 Islamophobia Thrust Aasif Mandvi Into the Spotlight on 'The Daily Show'
The actor, comedian, and former "senior Muslim correspondent" looks back on how the terrorist attacks of 2001 shaped his life and career
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We're Only Beginning to See the Consequences of the Bush-Era Assault on Civil Liberties
Like a number of "War on Terror" measures, the Terrorist Screening Database's unconstitutionality was obvious from the jump
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Meet Gina Haspel, Trump's CIA Pick Who Oversaw Torture
As director of a CIA black site in 2002, Haspel oversaw some of the first "enhanced interrogations" in the War on Terror – now she might run the CIA
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New Drone Strikes Underscore, Again, How Much Power We Give Trump
Americans rolled over for decades while we gave the executive branch unreviewable authority to kill – now that power is in the hands of an idiot
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Iraq War Veteran Reflects on the Ground Zero Mall
On the failed efforts to build a Global War on Terror memorial, while a shopping mall is built at the 9/11 site
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10 Powerful Moments From the Congressional Gun Sit-In
Here's everything House Republicans didn't want you to see from the Democrats' more than 24-hour protest
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The Godawful Bill at the Center of the Gun Sit-In
"No fly, no buy" would be a civil rights nightmare, and ineffective at preventing mass shootings
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Tweets vs. War Crimes: Clinton's Plan to Solve the Middle East
Clinton campaign tweeted "plan to defeat ISIS" whose first step amounts to "defeat ISIS"
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