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President Trump taps Robert O’Brien to replace John Bolton as national security adviser
Shira Tarlo
Earlier this year, Trump sent O'Brien to help free A$AP Rocky, who was being held in Sweden on assault charges
Here’s what the Democratic candidates never talked about last week: Impeaching this guy
Heather Digby Parton
Congress is in turmoil, and the 2020 candidates are hanging back. That's clearly the best way to re-elect Trump
Democrats retreat from reality: Understanding last week’s depressing debate
Anis Shivani
Last week's debate wasn't the heavyweight battle in the Bayou City many hoped for. It was Democrats gone dismal
Eighteen years and counting: Are we ever getting out of Afghanistan?
Lucian K. Truscott IV
After the collapse of his peace deal with the Taliban, Trump’s answer seems to be no. So we've learned nothing
Creator of Stanford Prison Experiment on Trump’s camps: It’s how Nazi guards behaved
Chauncey DeVega
Philip Zimbardo, whose work explored the psychology of cruelty: America under Trump is a "nightmare situation"
How to bring divided Americans together and save our democracy
Pam Spritzer
Sequestering ourselves in media silos while spouting hatred at each other is guaranteed to fail
Is Trump aiming for talks with Iran after chucking John Bolton to the curb?
Sophia Tesfaye
Trump is thoroughly incompetent — but ditching Bolton may be his best decision, and reduces risk of war with Iran
We forgot the lessons of 9/11: Osama bin Laden would love Trump
Amanda Marcotte
In electing Donald Trump, we gave Osama exactly what he wanted, by exposing the U.S. as a hapless paper tiger
Fox News host Tucker Carlson claims that John Bolton is a “man of the left” and a “progressive”
Shira Tarlo
But Carlson didn't mention Bolton spent more than a decade as a Fox News contributor before being tapped by Trump
A super-hawk’s big fail: The unlikely rise and welcome fall of John Bolton
Heather Digby Parton
Bolton was always a terrible fit for the Trump White House — and the world breathes easier without him there
“The pain remains”: The living literature of war
Nick Turse
Since 2001, more than 1,500 U.S. military personnel have lost limbs to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
The forgotten lesson of 9/11: Political misinformation long predates Trump
Bob Hennelly
9/11 first responders are dying because officials lied about air quality. Trump is just a continuation of a problem
President Trump fires John Bolton as national security adviser
Shira Tarlo
Trump said he asked Bolton for his resignation, while Bolton claims he offered to resign
John Bolton and Lindsey Graham may have talked Trump out of Taliban summit
Matthew Rozsa
New report reveals that Trump impulsively pursued a Taliban summit — and just as suddenly abandoned the idea
Julián Castro refers to “bizarre episode” of Donald Trump supposedly calling off Taliban peace talks
Matthew Rozsa
2020 presidential candidate Julián Castro expressed skepticism on Donald Trump's supposed Afghan peace talk plans
Who are the real invaders on planet Earth?
Tom Engelhardt
In this century, there has been only one true invader on planet Earth: the United States of America
A new book reveals just how sophisticated surveillance has become
Jefferson Morley
"Eyes in the Sky" details a startling account of the new technologies that promise safety and imperil privacy
Amid the rising tide of “gaffes,” Joe Biden looks less electable every day
Amanda Marcotte
Joe Biden is the least electable of the major Democratic candidates. Will voters see that in time to stop Trump?
Wake up, America: The dream is dead. Not just for “Dreamers,” but for all of us
Anis Shivani
One DACA recipient has decided to "self-deport" — to Canada. More will follow, and that should tell us something
Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis: “I had no choice but to leave” Trump administration
Shira Tarlo
"I just couldn't connect the dots anymore," Mattis said, breaking his eight-month retreat from the public eye
How Amazon and Silicon Valley seduced the Pentagon
James Bandler, Anjali Tsui, Doris Burke
Tech moguls like Eric Schmidt have gotten unprecedented access to Defense Department. That's not a good thing
Sanders and Warren should know that demonizing foreign regimes produces a hefty Pentagon price tag
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies
Authoritarianism is not a concept the U.S. can defeat militarily, any more than “communism” or “terror”
Emails show the VA took no action to spare veterans from a harsh Trump immigration policy
Yeganeh Torbati, Isaac Arnsdorf, Dara Lind
The VA’s approach differs from the Pentagon’s, which won an exemption for active-duty members of the military
The uneasy alliance between aluminum and warfare
Mimi Sheller
From hand grenades to nuclear bombs, modern weaponry across the world rests on aluminum-based technology.
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