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This article originally appeared on AlterNet. Two powerful backers of Hillary Clinton attracted headlines—and outrage—this weekend when they uttered sweeping statements under the banner of “feminism,” calling on young women to back the former Secretary of State’s presidential bid. Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of Sate, introduced Clinton in New…
VICE reporter Ben Anderson talks about facing captured ISIS soldiers and more in tonight’s VICE on HBO Debrief of “Fighting ISIS.” VICE returns on Friday, February 5 at 11PM, exclusively on HBO Watch Season 1: http://bit.ly/VICE-HBO-S1Watch Season 2: http://bit.ly/VICE-HBO-S2-E1 Click here to subscribe to VICE: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/VICE-VideosVideos, daily editorial…
The next president will need “more than tough talk or calls to carpet-bomb civilians,” declared President Obama in his final State of the Union address this month. He delivered a few well-placed barbs aimed at Republican presidential candidates and slammed Ted Cruz for his hard-line position on ISIS. After deflating the Texas senator’s call to…
When Muslim immigrants apply to become citizens, they often find the process delayed for years without explanation. Then, when they are at wit’s end, they get a visit from the FBI, with an offer they don’t dare refuse. When he got the last call to come meet with the FBI agents, A.M. allowed himself an…
A sign is seen outside a Wall Street Journal office on Avenue of the Americas | Mario Tama/Getty New rules mean that passport holders of the 38 countries who previously could visit the United States without a visa now must obtain a visa if they are dual nationals of Iran, Iraq, Syria or Sudan By…
The “reductive seduction” is not malicious, but it can be reckless. For two reasons. First, it’s dangerous for the people whose problems you’ve mistakenly diagnosed as easily solvable. There is real fallout when well-intentioned people attempt to solve problems without acknowledging the underlying complexity. There are so many examples. As David Bornstein wrote in The…
Establishing a worldwide caliphate has proved to be a rather expensive endeavor. Subscribe Receive daily email updates: Subscribe to Defense One Today. Be the first to receive updates. Author The so-called Islamic State is feeling the economic toll of waging wars on a number of fronts as more countries join the fight against it. ISIL,…
This story has been updated. Ban Ki-moon, the U.N. secretary-general, warned Friday that a Saudi-led air coalition that is supported by the United States may have committed war crimes by using cluster munitions in heavily populated neighborhoods in Yemen. The U.N. chief has “received troubling reports of the use of cluster munitions” in several Jan….
SAMUT SAKHON, Thailand (AP) — Every morning at 2 a.m., they heard a kick on the door and a threat: Get up or get beaten. For the next 16 hours, No. 31 and his wife stood in the factory that owned them with their aching hands in ice water. They ripped the guts, heads, tails…
Chris Blattman cites a recent estimate that Americans own 42% of the civilian guns in the world. You’ll also see estimates that America accounts for about half of the world’s defense spending. I believe those numbers are a misuse of purchasing power parity comparisons, but with proper adjustments it is not implausible to believe that…