How a disinformation campaign changed America.

When did we start to think of the president as commander-in-chief first and executor of laws a distant second?

We can probably all agree on some things that were over-reported this year. But what stories didn't get their due? Reporters, editors and bloggers weigh in.

The renewed patriotism and commitment we felt 15 years ago has decayed, sullied by jingoism, xenophobia and paranoid fantasies about race and religion.

We have our precision weaponry, and terrorist groups have theirs.

The philosopher argues that responding to extremist terror with a “sledgehammer” may only serve to perpetuate a deadly cycle in which our values and principles are also trampled.

Welcome to Mike Lofgren’s Washington, DC — a This Town, where the political theater that is endlessly tweeted and blogged about has nothing to do with actual decision making.

The vast inequality they are creating is a death sentence for government by consent of the people. This is the fight of our lives and how it ends is up to us.

The American ruling class is ensconced in the "Washington Consensus" and deaf to any evidence that challenges its worldview.

From Afghanistan to Yemen, a short history of American arms ending up in the wrong hands.