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by MARIANNA JORDAN for ISLAMiCommentary on OCTOBER 4, 2013: Jessica Montell, the executive director of Israel’s leading human rights organization B’Tselem has a “love/hate” relationship with the Arab-Israeli peace process. She...

East Residence Hall at Duke University, recently renamed from Aycock Hall after a student campaign protesting the building’s namesake, former North Carolina Governor Charles Aycock, a noted white supremacist. (Duke University Photography) Charles Aycock...

Lots of ground to cover and some very interesting stories from the world of deep politics, spooks, hacks, blunders, and the Asian Game of Zones. First up, from the New York Times, ignorance of history or simply slippery politics?: A President Whose...

From left: Keenan Duffey, John Thomason, Prashanth Kamalakanthan, Darren Ankrom, Rick Carp, Humna Bhojani, Jake Scobey-Thal. In front: Rebecca Nathanson and Eunji Kim. Not pictured: Samantha Lachman, our DC intern.

By Prashanth Kamalakanthan Long a stoner joke, the movement to legalize marijuana is now riding high. Voters have backed legal pot in four states and the District of Columbia. Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada are expected to vote...