Home Free: What are we doing to ourselves?

Happy New Year. There’s a lot to catch up on since I paused this column over the holidays in order to finish writing and otherwise finalizing my... 

Marines Urinating on Dead Taliban: How Low Will We Go?

I haven’t fully digested the disgusting news that U.S. Marines have been caught on video urinating on dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, so this... 

Choosing Haiti: Prologue to Bearing the Bruise

“In Bearing the Bruise, Ethan Casey offers up a heartfelt account of his travels in Haiti. As an eyewitness, Casey gives readers an informed perspective... 

Review: The Last Mughal, by William Dalrymple

To most Americans, the planes hit the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001 out of a clear blue sky not only literally, but figuratively as well.... 

Defining terror: Better late than never? by Ahad Khan

Guest article by Ahad Khan In his recent article “Home Free: Waging War on Ourselves,” Ethan Casey writes about what I know as “the American dream”... 

It is indeed about Greg Mortenson, by Mahvesh Khan

Guest article by Mahvesh Khan When I disagreed with some ideas in Ethan Casey’s recent article “It’s not about Greg Mortenson,” he very... 

Home Free: It’s always right to try

Last week was an eventful one on multiple fronts, though really they’re all of a piece. The dust-up in the London Review of Books between the neo-imperialist... 

Home Free: Waging war on ourselves

A couple of years ago, giving a talk at a church in Seattle, I was conveying as best I could the anger Pakistanis feel toward the U.S. about drone attacks,... 

Pakistan and the US: We are free to choose peace

My latest article in the Pakistani newspaper Dawn is headlined “We are free to choose peace.” It includes this paragraph: Our two countries... 

Home Free: Has America Turned a Corner?

On November 17, I posted a link on my Facebook page. The article, “This Is What Revolution Looks Like” by Chris Hedges, is not for the faint...