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Attorney for Blackwater murder victim: Trump’s pardons “a slap in the face” to U.S. justice
Roger Sollenberger
"The families believed in justice," lawyer says. After Trump pardoned killers, "it's been taken away from them"
America’s military reckoning: It’s time to stop the ritualistic fawning over veterans
Gregory A. Daddis
Most who've served deserve our praise. But military veterans don't get a free pass to spread sedition or hatred
It’s been almost 20 years since 9/11 — can we finally stop marching to disaster?
Rebecca Gordon
It’s probably hard for people born since 9/11 to imagine how much — and how little — things changed after that day
What If, after 9/11, George W. Bush had just thrown a bunch of parties?
Tom Engelhardt
And what if, after the pandemic hit America, Donald J. Trump had launched a global war against COVID-19?
Pardoning the Blackwater killers: It’s a scandal, but not specific to Donald Trump
Iveta Cherneva
It was difficult to prosecute these 2007 war crimes, and Republicans were eager to whitewash them from the get-go
Progressives tell Biden: Don’t roll out the red carpet for “torture enablers”
Medea Benjamin, Marcy Winograd
Joe Biden has nominated Avril Haines as DNI, and may pick Michael Morell for the CIA. Both are tainted by torture
Will the Dems sell us out in the midst of a pandemic?
Leonard C. Goodman
When politicians sell out to win, we all lose.
We’ve lost control: The real lessons of the Trump regime and the pandemic
Chris Hedges
Our society, and our species, is gripped by hopeful delusion. Dire recent events should have stripped all that away
Trump and the Republicans want to turn losing into winning — and it might work
Lucian K. Truscott IV
Apparently it's not Trump's fault he lost. It was all those damn voters! Republicans are looking to fix that
Decades of inequality shadow voter turnout in rural Georgia
Steven Rosenfeld
Small-town voter drive reveals why trusted family, friends and local leaders can boost turnout in Senate runoffs
Pompeo goes into quarantine after hosting State Department holiday party in the middle of a pandemic
Igor Derysh
The secretary of state has hosted indoor holiday parties despite warnings from public health officials and workers
Can Joe Biden’s America figure out how to stop creating terrorists?
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
The U.S.-led "war on terror" has become a self-fulfilling policy fueling intractable violence. Will Biden end it?
Ilhan Omar rips Congress for approving $740.5 billion Pentagon budget while skimping on COVID relief
Jake Johnson
Omar called it a "bill to appease defense contractors and special interests"
Spilling ink and spilling blood: Fighting and writing against America’s forever wars
William Astore, Danny Sjursen
Two men take a unique look back at the paths they took to becoming critics of America’s wars and its war machine
“Big win for religious freedom”: Supreme Court rules Muslims can sue over no-fly list
Kenny Stancil
High court rules unanimously that Muslim men who say FBI used no-fly list as coercion tool can sue officials
The collective suicide of the liberal class: We will all pay the price for their cowardice
Chris Hedges
Liberals have made a Faustian bargain: Defeat Republicans at any cost. They stand for nothing and fight for nothing
How Michèle Flournoy’s Pentagon dreams collapsed: Progressives fought back
Norman Solomon
Hawks mad: Two weeks ago, "Defense Secretary Flournoy" looked like a done deal. Then the left pushed back hard
Can Biden’s pick for Secretary of Defense dismantle Trump’s pernicious military legacy?
Michael T. Klare
From the forever wars to the cataclysmic wars
Stop thanking the troops and lend a hand
Andrea Mazzarino
A military spouse’s perspective on bringing the troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq
The history of the decline and fall of the American empire
Tom Engelhardt
What it means to fall on a failing planet
As hospitals fill with COVID patients, medical reinforcements are hard to find
Blake Farmer, Carrie Feibel
More than 93,000 COVID patients are hospitalized across the country. But space isn't the main concern for hospitals
Is Dwight Eisenhower’s ghost haunting Joe Biden’s foreign policy team?
Nicolas J.S. Davies
Every global challenge Biden must face — COVID, the climate crisis, endless war — has been worsened by corruption
As Trump pursues chaos and confusion, Biden urged to “go big and fast” to fix “broken” government
Jessica Corbett
Trump team's goal is to "set so many fires that it will be hard for the Biden administration to put them all out"
What can the left expect from a Biden-Harris administration? Pretty much nothing
Tony McKenna
A tale of wolf and fox: Opposing Trump was crucial — but in the long run, opposing Biden is just as important
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