February 4, 2013

This issue of The Weekly Standard examined threats to civil liberties and national security policy. Mark Hemingway's cover story criticized the expansion of 'human rights' commissions, arguing they represented an overreach of government sensitivity enforcement. The magazine also featured military policy analysis by Mackubin Thomas Owens opposing the integration of women into combat units, alongside coverage of the Obama administration's foreign policy struggles, including its ineffectual approach to Israeli-Palestinian issues and Russia's ban on American adoptions of Russian children.