Is the CIA Ready for the Age of Cyberwar?
Behind the most sweeping reforms in the agency’s history—and their limits
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Jason Reed / Reuters The Cost of America's Broken Promises
Radovan Karadzic’s story bears a moral for U.S. presidents to come: Beware the empty threat.
Dado Ruvic / Reuters Why Mullah Omar’s Death Could Be a Nightmare for Afghanistan
“If nobody respected the Taliban leadership anymore,” said one analyst, “then you have no one to talk to.”
Jim Hollander / Reuters Denying Genocide in the Face of Science
The largest DNA-identification project ever conducted provides unprecedented proof of the slaughter at Srebrenica. But 20 years later, too many people claim it never happened.
Dado Ruvic / Reuters The United Nations Still Can't Stop Civilian Slaughter
Twenty years after the world body failed to stop two genocides, it’s still struggling with how to enforce its most basic mandate: protecting people.
Dado Ruvic / Reuters Will Obama's New Hostage Policy Actually Work?
Absent coordination with Europe, the president’s reforms may only help the families of hostages, not the captives themselves.
Jim Young / Reuters What the United States Owes Warren Weinstein
The American hostage died in a "signature" drone strike. Those strikes should end.
Khaled Abdullah / Reuters America's $28-Billion Failure in Pakistan
The U.S. has never convinced the Pakistanis to confront militants. Could that change after the Taliban's school attack?
Zohra Bensemra/Reuters The Micromanager in Chief
How Syria overwhelmed an overcentralized White House
Larry Downing/Reuters How the U.S. and Europe Failed James Foley
America doesn't negotiate with terrorists. Should it?
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