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Upset Man Standing Against Wall (Getty images/Simon Josefsson/EyeEm)

Is grieving too long a disorder?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
The DSM's new guidelines have a lot to say about modern mourning
TOS-1A Solntsepyok (Blazing Sun) multiple thermobaric rocket launchers during the Victory Day military parade in Red Square marking the 75th anniversary of the victory in World War II, on June 24, 2020 in Moscow, Russia. The 75th-anniversary marks the end of the Great Patriotic War when the Nazi's capitulated to the then Soviet Union. (Ramil Sitdikov - Host Photo Agency via Getty Images)

As a new Cold War with Russia heats up, the danger of nuclear doomsday is real all over again

Nicolas J.S. Davies
It's a dreadful '70s rerun: Two nuclear powers face to face, and neither one has promised it won't shoot first
President Biden delivers a speech at the Royal Castle on March 26, in Warsaw, Poland. (Omar Marques/Getty Images)

Nine words that shook the world: What was Joe Biden thinking?

Norman Solomon
Frantic day-after cleanup effort can't erase Biden's disastrous call for regime change in a rival nuclear power
APRIL 10, 2020: No TSA Security lines at Pensacola International Airport. (Julie Picardi/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

Women prohibited from flying without male “guardian” in Afghanistan

Kelly McClure
Kabul's international airport turned away dozens of women for not having a male guardian with them
Dorris Bowdon, Jane Darwell and Henry Fonda in "The Grapes of Wrath," directed by John Ford, 1940. (20th Century Fox/Courtesy of Getty Images)

What classic literature says about refugees fleeing war

Robert F. Barsky
From the Bible to "The Grapes of Wrath," reading classic texts of people seeking new lives can create empathy
Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Russian President Vladimir Putin and former US Vice President Dick Cheney (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The dangerous myth of American innocence: Only our enemies commit “war crimes”

Chris Hedges
America's massive hypocrisy makes a mockery of international law, and threatens to lead our planet to apocalypse
Flee (Neon)

“Flee”: Animation is a powerful medium for documentaries about conflict and refugees

Yael Friedman, Deborah Shaw
Let's hope that governments who set immigration policies heed this tale before turning away the asylum seekers
A Ukrainian serviceman walks towards the front line in the city of Irpin, northern Ukraine, on March 12, 2022. - Russian forces are positioned around Kiev on March 12, 2022 and are "blocking" Mariupol, where thousands of people are suffering a devastating siege, in southern Ukraine, a country that has been bombed for more than two weeks. (ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia’s war is an inexcusable crime — but the U.S. is not a credible force for peace

Norman Solomon
Russia bears sole responsibility for this ghastly tragedy — but decades of U.S. policy helped make it possible
Joe Biden | Rubble in Zhytomyr on March 02, 2022, following a Russian bombing the day before (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden must prepare: Republicans plan to exploit Ukraine for political gain — again

Heather Digby Parton
Biden's leadership has been steady and stalwart but "Democrats are a bunch of weak-kneed wimps" is a powerful meme
US President George W. Bush make a point during his State of the Union address 20 January 2004 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. In his speech, Bush had vowed that the United States "will never seek a permission slip" to go to war as he took aim in his annual State of the Union speech at critics of the invasion of Iraq. | Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of big businesses at the Kremlin in Moscow on February 24, 2022. - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said his country wanted to remain part of the world economy and had no plans to harm it. Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, killing dozens and triggering warnings from Western leaders of unprecedented sanctions. Russian air strikes hit military installations across the country and ground forces moved in from the north, south and east, forcing many Ukrainians flee their homes to the sounds of bombing. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Stephen JAFFE/AFP/Alexey NIKOLSKY)

Putin’s massive miscalculation: Echoes of George W. Bush — and a lesson for America’s elites

Paul Rosenberg
Putin has fallen prey to "intelligence failures" and arrogant fantasy — and Americans should know all about that
U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 82nd Airborne carry military equipment as they take part in a exercise outside the operating base at the Arlamow Airport on , 2022 in Wola Korzeniecka, Poland. The U.S., in response to the Russian military buildup and subsequent invasion of Ukraine and in concert with other NATO member states deploying additional troops across eastern European countries, has sent thousands of troops to Poland, where they have set up bases at Rzeszow and at two small airfields, both not far from Poland's border to Ukraine. Meanwhile fighting between the Russian military and Ukrainian armed forces is raging across Ukraine. (Omar Marques/Getty Images)

America is united on the Ukraine war, right? Still, let’s follow the money

Shaan Sachdev
Public opinion, both parties and the Pentagon are together on this. That means it's time to ask some questions
A man walks amid debris in front of a residential apartment complex that was heavily damaged by a Russian attack on March 18, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Russian forces remain on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, but their advance has stalled in recent days, even while Russian strikes - and pieces of intercepted missiles - have hit residential areas in the north of Kyiv. An estimated half of Kyiv's population has fled to other parts of the country, or abroad, since Russia invaded on February 24. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Bombed out: Why we keep on making war, and tolerating it

Lucian K. Truscott IV
War is brand new every time it happens, and it's one of our oldest ideas. We claim to hate it, but it's part of us
Flee (Neon)

“Flee” director on protecting a refugee’s identity through animation: “He is always having to hide”

Gary M. Kramer
Jonas Poher Rasmussen spoke to Salon about his Oscar-nominated documentary pushing cinematic narrative boundaries
Low angle vintage prison cell (Getty Images)

Docs show CIA used prisoner for torture training

Brett Wilkins
A prisoner at a CIA site in Afghanistan was used as training prop, according to newly declassified documents
Members of Pro-Russian separatists patrol the pro-Russian separatists-controlled Donetsk, Ukraine on March 11, 2022. (Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Endless war is back — as the merchants of death waltz us toward Armageddon

Chris Hedges
The doctrine of perma-war dominated the world for 40 years. Thanks to Putin, the U.S. and the arms biz, it's back
A Ukrainian serviceman helps evacuees gathered under a destroyed bridge, as they flee the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on March 7, 2022. - Ukraine dismissed Moscow's offer to set up humanitarian corridors from several bombarded cities on March 7, 2022, after it emerged some routes would lead refugees into Russia or Belarus. The Russian proposal of safe passage from Kharkiv, Kyiv, Mariupol and Sumy had come after terrified Ukrainian civilians came under fire in previous ceasefire attempts. (DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Whose lives really matter? How racism colors coverage of the crisis in Ukraine

Chauncey DeVega
Ukraine is a global crisis and a humanitarian tragedy. But Western media coverage has an obvious racial bias
A Palestinian woman pauses amid destroyed buildings in the northern district of Beit Hanun in the Gaza Strip during an humanitarian truce on July 26, 2014. | A Ukrainian police officer stands in front of a damaged residential block hit by an early morning missile strike on February 25, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

In war, there are no “worthy” or “unworthy” victims: That’s how we justify our crimes

Chris Hedges
Russia's war crimes should not be used to whitewash America's record — that only worsens the cycle of atrocity
U.S. President Donald Trump at the NATO HQ on December 3, 2019 in Watford, England. (NATO handout via Getty Images)

With bizarre rant, Trump offers a sneak peek into his second term

Heather Digby Parton
Trump's turn as the leader of the U.S. has only accelerated the meltdown of our world order — and now he's laughing
A Ukrainian soldier walks past a building that was destroyed in the midst of battle with the Russians, on the outskirts of Irpin, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. (Getty Images / MARCUS YAM / LOS ANGELES TIMES)

Ukraine and the dark lessons of war: What does it mean to “take” a country or a city?

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Russia's attack on Ukraine is stupid, pointless, destructive and remarkably vicious. That's what happens in war
Mikhail Gorbachev and Vladimir Putin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Mikhail Gorbachev changed history — and then the West paved the way for Putin

James Drake
I was in Moscow when Gorbachev changed everything. But neoliberal "shock therapy" destroyed a historic opportunity
Joe Biden | Rubble in Zhytomyr on March 02, 2022, following a Russian bombing the day before (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden sounds the warning, and the fog of war descends: How bad will it get?

Brian Karem
It was alternately a stirring and reassuring speech — but the underlying mood was dark. Are we heading into war?
US President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress in the U.S. Capitol House Chamber on March 1, 2022 in Washington, DC. During his first State of the Union address, President Joe Biden was expected to speak on his administration’s efforts to lead a global response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, work to curb inflation, and bring the country out of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Saul Loeb - Pool/Getty Images)

Lauren Boebert disrupts Joe Biden’s first State of the Union as he discusses his son’s death

Igor Derysh
Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene also tried and failed to start "Build the wall" chant in the House chamber
Vladimir Putin | Soviet Flag (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Bewildered conservatives call Putin a “Soviet dictator” who runs a “communist country”

Jon Skolnik
Former football coach Tommy Tuberville isn't the only Republican who needs a refresher on Russian history
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump is not confused about his bromance with Putin

Heather Digby Parton
Meanwhile, only 66% of Democrats even approve of President Biden's handling of Russia and Ukraine
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