“We reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.”So, in one inaugural phrase, did Barack Obama attempt to swipe away the entire legacy of the Bush administration’s national security policy — and with good results, if you ask the Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne or Salon’s Joan Walsh. But the Opinionator was equally taken with a follow-up line: “Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks, but with the sturdy alliances and enduri

Several hundred immigrant supporters and religious leaders from across the country marched to the Southwest Washington headquarters of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency yesterday, strumming guitars, beating drums and waving colorful homemade banners exhorting President Obama to...

MOS COW, Dec. 13 -- The e-mail that arrived Monday night in the inboxes of two organizations tracking hate crimes in Russia carried a disturbing message and an even more disturbing photo -- that of a man's severed head resting on a wooden chopping block.