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Conor Friedersdorf is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he focuses on politics and national affairs. He lives in Venice, California, and is the founding editor of The Best of Journalism, a newsletter devoted to exceptional nonfiction.
It's important to fully air our disagreements in civic debate -- and to maintain spheres that are free from its controversies. More »
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The New York Times on Vladamir Putin, Barack Obama, and the Syria debate. More »
Some kinds of foreign spying are more legitimate than others. More »
The government won't even let businesses disclose that it has made data requests. Here's a way around one of the intelligence community's most depraved practices. More »
It will only damage the commander in chief's ability to threaten wars of choice unilaterally -- and that's a good thing. More »
Yet journalists keep airing the idea that his presidency depends on it. More »
There's no shame in telling the world the truth: that our system intentionally constrains the executive branch. More »
President Obama, the Iraq hawks, and the inevitable dysfunction of any intervention they wage together More »
The secretary of state is dissembling in a most unconvincing manner. More »
The hawks' overwrought warnings are not credible. More »
They invoke World War II because it is popular, not because any of its lessons are applicable. More »
The messages they want to send aren't anything a foreign government would plausibly believe. More »
Hawkish assumptions embedded in newspaper coverage -- and one article that shined above the rest. More »
The unfortunate personalization of British politics More »
The American people's lack of engagement on Syria is cited in Washington to help legitimize war. But it does the opposite. More »
The latest staggering example: treating John Yoo as an authority on the president's authority to intervene in Syria. More »
He took that position after years as a U.S. senator, and taught it during lectures on the separation of powers. More »
Ideologically diverse critics warn that unilateral intervention would be risky, unpopular, and a transgression against domestic and international law. More »
