BOSTON - Looking back on 2010, it was a year in which journalism crackled with new, perhaps reckless energy in the wake of the Wikileaks affair and America seemed to face a sense of its own limits. Not just an ...Read More
In case you haven’t noticed, the US is working with governments from Indonesia to the Horn of Africa in an aggressive and coordinated effort to attack Al Qaeda and Al Qaeda-inspired movements. Consider the events GlobalPost correspondents reported just this week: In ...Read More
We needed this one. As a country that has too often found itself confronting the futility of its force in the post 9-11 world, the patient, well-executed US Navy mission that freed Captain Richard Phillips came as a welcome ending ...Read More
Teddy Roosevelt would have known what to do with these pirates. In his day he went after them with everything he had. In 1907, there was a famous naval standoff in which Barbary pirates held an American for ransom. It was a ...Read More
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