Tara McKelvey, a 2011 Guggenheim fellow, is a correspondent for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. She is also a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review and the author of Monstering: Inside America’s Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War (Basic Books).
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Is Gates’ Success Overstated?
The defense secretary cast himself as a reformer.... MORE
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The CIA's Last-Minute Osama bin Laden Drama
The arrest of CIA contractor Raymond Davis came close to derailing the mission to get Osama bin... MORE
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Osama bin Laden's Death Exposes the Price of Torture
Bush aides are demanding credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden.... MORE
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Obama's Targeted Warfare Wins a Round
The killing of Osama bin Laden represents a triumph for President Obama's embrace of targeted... MORE
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Who'll Be the FBI's Next Director?
With Robert Mueller finishing up as FBI director, President Obama needs to announce a successor to... MORE
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Samantha Power's Case for War on Libya
The femme fatale of the humanitarian-assistance world argued for intervention in Libya, and though... MORE
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Japan Crisis: The Nuclear Energy Backlash
Japan’s ongoing crisis is putting new scrutiny an energy source once trumpeted by Obama.... MORE
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Inside the Killing Machine
President Obama is ordering a record number of Predator strikes.... MORE
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Hillary's Power Grab
The secretary of State has wrested control of USAID and influence over billions in foreign... MORE
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Richard Holbrooke's Doomed Successor
Frank Ruggiero may well be the best diplomat to fill the shoes of the towering Holbrooke as special... MORE
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Clapper's Intelligence Test
James Clapper’s televised mishap masks a deeper problem: a national intelligence office that often... MORE
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The Crimes of Guantánamo
Karen Greenberg, author of a provocative new book on the abuses at Guantánamo, talks about how Bush... MORE
