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Unremarkably, the Obama administration has not been able to turn around the slide in Afghanistan, and the prospects going forward are bleak: A Pentagon report presented a sobering new assessment Wednesday of the Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan, saying that its abilities are expanding and its operations are increasing in sophistication, despite recent major offensives [...] John Cole spotted something interesting in the media’s coverage of recent revelations of widespread torture in Iraqi government prisons: the New York Times, Washington Post and NPR all use the word “torture” to, rightly, describe the type of abuse endured by the detainees in question. While that might seem like a mundane observation (media outlets using [...] |
Blake Hounshell (aka praktike), our co-founder and main man, is managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine. He's now reporting on the Egyptian Revolution from Cairo. 
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