Joel Gillin
The New Republic
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After New Nigerian War Crimes Allegations, U.S. Should Think Twice About Deeper Military Ties
Perhaps the U.S. should proceed with caution in the wake of the new Amnesty International report. → Read More
Benghazi Won't Stick to Hillary Clinton, But the Disastrous Libyan Intervention Should
She neglected diplomatic options and over-hyped fears of civilian deaths. → Read More
Benghazi Won't Stick to Hillary Clinton, But the Disastrous Libyan Intervention Should
She neglected diplomatic options and over-hyped fears of civilian deaths. → Read More
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Get Hired
It's about humanizing people with criminal records. → Read More
How Social Scientists Try—and Sometimes Fail—to Predict Riots
Most Americans think we'll see more Baltimore-style unrest this summer. Are they right? → Read More
Let's Be Clear About What the Armenian Genocide Was—and Wasn't
Yes, it was a genocide. No, it was not caused by a holy war. → Read More
The Cuban Thaw Is Obama's Finest Foreign Policy Achievement to Date
Unlike so many of the challenges in the Middle East and Asia, Cuba was a low-hanging fruit that needed to be plucked. → Read More
Cubans Are More Satisfied With Their Political System Than Americans Are
52 percent of Cubans are dissatisfied with their political system, compared to 65 percent of Americans. → Read More
The DEA's Sex Parties in Colombia Are Bad, But Recent Allegations Are Far Worse
The Army is just now probing sexual assault allegations more than a decade old. → Read More
Ferguson Court Clerk: Being Fired for Racist Emails Was Like "Being Raped"
"It took me awhile to get over the feeling of being raped and being thrown under that bus," she said. → Read More
The Yemen Conflict Isn't a Sectarian War—Yet
Framing the conflict as Sunni vs. Shia oversimplifies the complex political landscape within Yemen. More importantly, it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy. → Read More
Germanwings Wasn't the First Mass-Murder Plane Crash. Here's What Investigators Learned About the Others.
Don't leave pilots alone in the cockpit. → Read More
US Should Arm the Kurds Fighting ISIS
With the U.S. set to train thousands of Syrian rebels, the Kurds continue their calls for aid. → Read More
Report: Rebuilding Gaza "Could Take More Than 100 Years"
Oxfam blames the Israeli blockade and donors' broken promises. → Read More
Why Is the Wall Street Journal Dismissing Colombia's War Crimes?
The military has been murdering civilians and dressing them up as guerrillas. → Read More
Venezuela's Unpopular President Just Threw a Mayor in Jail
Now the mayor of Caracas has been arrested and charged for an alleged U.S. coup of Venezuela. What exactly is President Maduro thinking? → Read More
Libya Is Yet Another Reason to Be Wary of Humanitarian Interventions
Like in Iraq, intervention in Libya preceded the presence Al Qaeda and ISIS. → Read More
Obama Isn't Ready to Give Up His Broad War Powers
His new war authorization against ISIS is too open-ended. → Read More
This Is What Happens When the U.S. Arms Unstable Regimes
Where are all the weapons we gave Yemen? → Read More
Pope Francis Just Declared This Murdered Archbishop a Martyr. Reaganites Should Be Embarrassed.
The man responsible for his death was a Cold War ally. → Read More