Roundup: Media's Take

U.S. Military Averaging More Than a Mission a Day in Africa

by Nick Turse

Documents reveal blinding pace of ops in 2013, more of the same for 2014.

In Defense of Empire

by Robert D. Kaplan

It can ensure stability and protect minorities better than any other form of order. The case for a tempered American imperialism.

Invasion of the Data Snatchers

by Catherine Crump and Matthew Harwood

Big Data and the Internet of Things means the surveillance of everything.

Advice Too Secret to Ignore

by Tom Engelhardt

Col. Manners Answers Your Questions on CIA Practices, Proper Cyberwar Behavior, and Invasion Etiquette

Paul Ryan’s Irish Amnesia

by Timothy Egan

Talking the familiar, heartless language of hunger economics.

Washington’s Back-to-the-Future Military Policies in Africa

by Nick Turse

America’s new model for expeditionary warfare.

Will Ukraine Break Apart?

by Masha Lipman

In Ukraine’s two decades as an independent state, the prospect of disintegration has never looked so real.

China’s Failed Effort to Export Outrage Over Japan

by Ying Ma

Attempts to raise an outcry about Japanese behavior in World War II have been less than successful.

The Ebb and Flow of Executive Power

by Bruce Bartlett

Republicans berate Obama's strong presidency, but they forget the path was forged under Bush II.

Obama and His Library: Go Small

by Witold Rybczynski

A presidential library is a very big building, but does that mean that it should also be monumental?

‘4 Years Is Enough’ and Other Reforms

by Leonard Cassuto

The AHA is doing the most creative work in the humanities on alternative-academic careers right now.

China and Japan: Seven Decades of Bitterness

by Mariko Oi

The BBC's Mariko Oi visited both countries with a Chinese journalist to find out why the wounds of World War Two refuse to heal.

North Carolina’s Moral Monday Movement Kicks Off 2014 With a Massive Rally in Raleigh

by Ari Berman

Tens of thousands of activists marched from Shaw to the North Carolina State Capitol, where they held an exuberant rally protesting the right-wing policies of the North Carolina government.

The Unquiet Ghosts of Nazi Germany

by Timothy W. Ryback

"Generation War" sparks a new debate about Germany's Nazi past.

Loot No Longer

by Doreen Carvajal

French authorities continue to struggle to return looted art.

The Man Who Made Peace Impossible

by Ali Jarbawi

For Palestinians, there is nothing in Ariel Sharon's career worth celebrating.

Was Harry Truman a Zionist?

by John B. Judis

Harry Truman's concerns about Israel and Palestine were prescient—and forgotten.

For India's Sikhs Amritsar casts a long shadow

by Amit Chaudhuri

India's politics bears the scars of the 1984 Golden Temple massacre – whether or not Britain had a role.

Our Politics May Be Polarized. But That’s Nothing New.

by David W. Brady and Hahrie Han

Political science provides an answer.

LBJ's Mistake Was Promising to "Win" the War on Poverty

by Jonathan Cohn

How to measure whether or not the "war on poverty" worked.