The Department of Homeland Security is studying how best to implement a little-noticed congressional mandate to gather, search, and store biometric data from all foreign visitors leaving the country. The objective is to collect better data on foreigners who violate the law while in the country or who overstay their visas. Read the rest of this entry »

Andrew Bacevich is no fan of George W. Bush. The conservative historian and former military officer lost a son fighting in Iraq and has publicly called the administration’s foreign policy record one of “substantial, if almost malignant, achievement.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Even before Russian tanks rolled across the Georgian border, the country was already under assault in cyberspace. The attacks, which involved sabotaging specific Georgian websites, began days before Russian warplanes launched. Read the rest of this entry »

MILLINOCKET, MAINE-The name Millinocket comes from the Abenaki Indian expression for the “many islands,” a fitting description of the region near the geographic center of th e state. It was the thousands of acres of timberland and the rivers, on which logs could be floated, that attracted the paper makers a century ago. But mention Millinocket in New England, and it’s never clear if you’re speaking about the town itself or its old industrial anchor, the Katahdin paper mill, once the world’s largest paper producing facility. In fact, there was a time when most phone books on the East Coast came from the Millinocket mill. Read the rest of this entry »