A new study from Harvard looks at how the American media covered waterboarding. Harvard students study the media's treatment of waterboarding in four major news outlets since the 1930s and found that after 2004, there was a dramatic decline in characterizing waterboard as a form of torture. They show how reporters became allies of law enforcement—instead of the skeptics they're supposed to be.

Jason Motlagh examines the rise of the Taliban's sophisticated public relations machine and the havoc it has wreaked on U.S. counterterrorism efforts in Afghanistan.

Jeffrey Mankoff, an expert on Russia, says the dispute that led Russia to cut off natural gas to Ukraine has its origins in differences over pricing as well as Ukraine's interest in closer ties with the West.

The four American university presidents in the Middle East discuss the importance and value of American-style liberal arts education inE gypt, Lebanon, and the Gulf, and how it can work to create social change in the Arab world.

Calvin Andrus and Stephen DeAngelis have a conversation with Mike Moran and Council members about the use of the wiki and blog in intelligence sharing.

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