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“Clearly they don't feel there will be significant backlash from this,” says Benjamin Lennett, policy director of the Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. “The telecom providers have not been out there advocating ...

Of the 380 extremists indicted for acts of political violence or for conspiring to carry out such attacks in the U.S. since 9/11, 81 were able to obtain explosives or the components necessary to build a bomb, according to a count by the New America ...

“It could be al Qaeda…or a domestic lone wolf or domestic group.” CNN contributor Peter Bergen said the possibilities included al Qaeda terrorists and “right-wing extremists,” as in the Oklahoma City bombing, which some in the media initially ...

"The people pushing what they say is the real account is the one that isn't that heroic, where bin Laden is sort of finished off on the floor, a lucky shot, as opposed to a man-to-man," said CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen, who spoke to the ...

Ailes's decision to cooperate extensively with Chafets stands in contrast to his refusal to talk to New York magazine's Gabriel Sherman, who is completing what is expected to be a more critical biography. It was something of a preemptive strike. “I ...

In due course, Anatol Lieven reviewed the book in The Nation, and he called us all out as liberal hawks. It was really only then that I realized that I had contributed the lead-off essay to an important, nay defining, liberal hawk volume! But I wrote ...

Peter Bergen at CNN.com: As is well known, many of bin Laden's family and members of his inner circle fled Afghanistan for Pakistan after the fall of the Taliban in the winter of 2001, but what is less well known is that some also fled to neighboring Iran.

The terms “global warming” and “climate change” never once appear in this book, but in relating the history of a literally earth-shaking event that occurred 200 years ago, the authors of The Year Without Summer have described a past that resembles our present in ways so uncanny, so numerous and fundamental, that the reader can only hope that Marx’s dictum—history happens twice, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce—will turn out to be wrong this time around.

When a massive volcano exploded in 1816, it plunged temperatures around the world. Mark Hertsgaard on the eerie parallels between this catastrophe and climate change in our own time. Like · Tweet. The terms “global warming” and “climate change” never ...

Braving frigid cold, at least 35,000 demonstrators gathered in Washington on Sunday for the largest climate change rally in history. With a second climate and clean energy rally planned for Earth Day on April 22, Sunday’s demonstration had the feel of a first act, an opening statement of what the burgeoning U.S. climate movement is demanding from a government that for decades has denied and delayed action on the most urgent problem of our age.