The legal handle that Obama is using to justify the murder is the Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF), which is the Congressional statute that allowed the president to send forces into Afghanistan after 9/11. Here we are eight years later, and of course, it reminds me of the Gulf of..…

For this background, see John Cooley, Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism (New York: Pluto Press, 2002). . The New York Times, “Confrontation in the Gulf,” September 23, 1990. . ..…

Those scholars still fighting the establishment over the folly of Iraq War should take note of the growing belief among many progressives and conservatives that United States should be engaged fewer military interventions in the world given Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.. It's fairly easy to say..…

The year 2013 marked the anniversary of one of the important foundational texts of second-wave Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, exposing it as problem, not individual one. ..…