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After the Afghanistan Papers, a big question: Will America ever give up its love affair with war?
David Masciotra
Facing the Washington Post's huge Afghanistan exposé honestly requires asking some dark questions about America
Senate GOP apparently deleted “white nationalist” from plan to screen military recruits
Igor Derysh
The House passed a measure to screen recruits for white nationalist views. Those words vanished in the Senate
The Pentagon budget has continued to rise for the last 40 years
William D. Hartung
Spending on national security is actually higher in 2019 than at the peak of the Vietnam and Korean Wars
The real outrage of the Afghanistan war papers that no one wants to talk about
Sophia A. McClennen
The most disturbing revelations aren't even the lies to the U.S. public, but the lies to the Afghan people
Insignia, badges, and Medals for a climate-wracked era
Michael T. Klare
The U.S. military on a planet from hell
Why the Afghanistan papers are an eerie reminder of Vietnam
Vijay Prashad
Noam Chomsky’s "The Backroom Boys" was a warning
Your guide to the 2020 Democrats: Who’s in, who’s out and WTF is going on anyway?
Matthew Rozsa
Kamala Harris is out. Mike Bloomberg and Deval Patrick, for some reason, are in. Here's the field, at least today
Impeachment and the Democrats: How will they screw this up? Let me count the ways
Andrew O'Hehir
Nancy Pelosi's fast-forward impeachment was empty patriotism theater and weird political math. Why even bother?
Why NATO should be obsolete
Medea Benjamin
While claiming to “preserve peace,” NATO has a history of bombing civilians and committing war crimes
The war crimes president: Donald Trump doesn’t understand the damage he’s causing to the military
Lucian K. Truscott IV
Trump is destroying what commanders call "good order and discipline." It's malicious, stupid and destructive
Bearing witness to the costs of war
Andrea Mazzarino
On being a military spouse and writing about our post-9/11 wars
Trump pardons and emboldens war criminals — and the corruption of Trumpism spreads
Heather Digby Parton
Trump clears three accused war criminals and forces out the secretary of the Navy. It's a vicious, ugly power play
Sanders becomes fastest presidential candidate in history to reach 4 million individual donations
Jake Johnson
"This is damn impressive," said progressive strategist Rebecca Katz.
America’s arms sales addiction
William D. Hartung
The 50-year history of U.S. dominance of the Middle Eastern arms trade
Sweden drops rape investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
Shira Tarlo
Assange is currently in jail in the U.K. for breaching his bail conditions in 2012 at a hearing related to the case
So is Tulsi Gabbard really a “Russian asset”? How would we know for sure?
Matthew Rozsa
Was Hillary Clinton speaking truth about Tulsi Gabbard, or just launching an unfounded McCarthyite smear?
As Europe shuts out migrants, activists are pushing back
Michelle Chen
Europeans are uniting to defend migrants’ rights at the grassroots, developing “translocal” campaigns
Leaking the Guatánamo prisoner names: How and why a former Navy lawyer took such a huge risk
Peter Jan Honigsberg
"Could I live with myself for the rest of my life knowing who knows how this would turn out?" Matt Diaz said
Who fights our “forever wars”? Pulitzer-winner C.J. Chivers on the true cost of Iraq and Afghanistan
Chauncey DeVega
Award-winning author of "The Fighters" and "The Gun" on the "enormous human consequence" of America's wars
Winter is coming: Castle Black, the Syrian withdrawal, and the battle of the bases
Nick Turse
Bases, bases, everywhere, and not a base in sight.
Watching my students turn into soldiers of empire
Danny Sjursen
A new generation of West Pointers joins America’s hopeless wars
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