Politics Category: All Politics

In late 2003, as our nation’s worst foreign policy disaster was beginning to unfold in Iraq, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sent a memo to his top advisers asking how the United States would know whether it was “winning or losing the Global War on Terror.” “Are we capturing, killing or deterring and dissuading more terrorists...

Last September New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice issued a terrifying report titled “America’s Voting Machines at Risk.” According to the comprehensive study, computers used to cast and count nearly every single vote are “rapidly aging out.” Coauthor Lawrence Norden told me the “biggest finding is that, in the vast majority of the country,...