Muslim-radicalization hearings pilloried, called hypocritical and unfair

Tomorrow New York Republican Rep. Peter King will open his Homeland Security Committee hearings on the question of whether or not Muslim-Americans are doing enough to help safeguard the nation from terrorism. The hearings have been pilloried as an exercise in attention-grabbing ethnic-baiting and scapegoating and as an essentially unfair More…

Al Qaeda: Not Dead Yet

Rumors of Al Qaeda’s death are greatly exaggerated, says Bruce Hoffmann, a RAND scholar of the Al Qaeda movement, responding implicitly to an argument made by Lawrence Wright and Peter Bergen that Al Qaeda has lost some serious strategic assets — like popular support.

Oooooh, controversy.