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While the conflict has always been something of a low-intensity guerrilla war, recent news reports from the region confirm that Taliban militants have begun to advance into a key region just 60 miles from Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. A temporary peace agreement has stopped the worst of...
While cutting off aid to Pakistan entirely would be a poor decision given the critical situation on the ground, it is important for the United States to reconsider its current policy of unconditional aid to the Pakistani government. In the 1980s, the George H.W. Bush administration wisely imposed arms-export...
But there is a movement afoot in the U.S., in the legislatures of New York State, California and Massachusetts, to reconsider our overly punitive drug laws. Recently, Senators Jim Webb and Arlen Specter proposed that Congress create a national commission, not unlike Portugal's, to deal with prison reform and...
So, in the near term, the Mahdi Army does not look poised to reassert itself in Baghdad or elsewhere in Iraq, despite what looks to be a rise in sectarian attacks directed against Shi'ites. But the political and security dynamics dampening a Mahdi Army comeback today could change drastically...
Facing severe financial pressures, MIT administrators announced this week that they would cut some of the school’s varsity athletic programs by the end of April—a move that gives Harvard sole claim to having the most varsity teams of any school in the nation. The...