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Gail Helt is a former CIA analyst on East Asia and provided support to the Obama Administration’s effort to transfer Guantanamo detainees. She now directs the security and intelligence studies program at King University in Bristol, Tennessee.
Every drop of intelligence has been drained from the detainees. Release those cleared and transfer the 9/11 plotters to the U.S. for trial.
Strongmen are weaker. Integrity endures. Peace is popular.
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The vice president’s humiliations in Budapest and Islamabad raise the question: Why did Trump set him up to fail?
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In its 8–1 ruling on Colorado’s conversion therapy ban, the Supreme Court recast mental health care as protected expression.
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The liberal think tank’s health care proposal is full of sound ideas that won’t deliver immediate relief. Here’s what would.
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A Black woman claimed self-defense after killing her jailer. Her 1975 high-profile trial shook the American South, and a recent documentary highlights eternal questions about juries and public pressure.
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The administration’s new fiscal blueprint is DOA in Congress, but it’s nonetheless revealing.
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