Identicide: How demographic shifts can rip a country apart

Identicide: How demographic shifts can rip a country apart

Monica Duffy Toft

What happens to a country when its core national identity doesn’t match its demographic reality?

04/27/2019 11:59 EDT

Gold Star families shocked as tax bills skyrocket thanks to Trump’s “tax cuts”

Igor Derysh

Family members of fallen soldiers got a nasty surprise hidden in the GOP "tax cuts": A new rule and higher taxes

04/26/2019 18:55 EDT

“I’m not a traitor, you are!” Political argument from the Founding Fathers to today’s partisans

Jeffrey Selinger

What does it mean to America that both sides are accusing each other of betraying their country?

04/26/2019 06:30 EDT

Crater created by massive explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

Nothing to see here: The U.S. government prevents investigations into war crimes in Afghanistan

Vijay Prashad

This U.S. war on Afghanistan has produced an unknown death count with unknown numbers of war crimes

04/25/2019 03:00 EDT

Pete Buttigieg; Beto O'Rourke; Emmanuel Macron (AP/Charlie Neibergall/Gerald Herbert/Olivier Matthys)

Hope, neoliberalism and the future: What we talk about when we talk about Pete Buttigieg

Andrew O'Hehir

Mayor Pete has displaced Beto O'Rourke as Democrats' latest hopey-changey messiah. Is that actually a good thing?

04/21/2019 12:00 EDT

The Trump-POTUS vaccine: Pray it inoculates America against another billionaire big business genius

Bob Hennelly

If Americans learn the lesson of the Trump presidency, that the rich won't save us, we can grab this economy back

04/21/2019 08:00 EDT

Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy leader of Iraq's Hashd al-Shaabi or Popular Mobilization Units (PMUs), Iraqi paramilitary forces created to defeat ISIS. The US describes Muhandis as "an advisor to (IRGC Quds Force Commander) Qassem Suleimani." Photo taken in Baghdad, Iraq in December 2017.

Reporter Sharmine Narwani on the secret history of America’s defeat in Syria

Patrick Lawrence

After years covering the "main battlefield in World War III," Narwani says everything you think you know is wrong

04/21/2019 06:00 EDT

In this May 2004 photo, a group gathers around a GBU-43B, or massive ordnance air blast (MOAB) weapon, on display at the Air Force Armament Museum on Eglin Air Force Base near Valparaiso, Fla. U.S. forces in Afghanistan struck an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, April 13, 2017, with a GBU-43B, the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military, Pentagon officials said. (Mark Kulaw/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP) (AP)

American war is off the charts

Tom Engelhardt

How the U.S. military feeds at the terror trough

04/19/2019 03:00 EDT

Pete Buttigieg on "The Rachel Maddow Show" (MSNBC)

Pete Buttigieg, Rachel Maddow candidly discuss coming out: “It would have killed me to be closeted”

Shira Tarlo

Suddenly hot 2020 presidential candidate opened up to MSNBC host about why he didn't come out until his early 30s

04/16/2019 17:05 EDT

Why is it so threatening to say Muslim lives matter?

Sophia A. McClennen

We are increasingly divided not just over which lives matter, but whether we should even question how we mourn

04/15/2019 16:00 EDT

U.S. Marines at Task Force Southwest military field in Shorab military camp of Helmand province, Afghanistan. (AP/Massoud Hossaini)

Afghanistan forces intimidate, rob U.S.-hired contractors

Victor Kotsev

Afghanistan soldiers have been stealing from and brutalizing US-paid local contractors

04/15/2019 05:00 EDT

In this Friday, April 22, 2016 photo, a jar containing a strain of marijuana nicknamed "Killer D" is seen at a medical marijuana facility in Unity, Maine. A growing number of health experts and law enforcement officials are making the case that marijuana could help reduce the numbers of overdoses and redirect money into fighting heroin and other opiates. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) (AP)

Decriminalizing the drug war?

Alfred McCoy

Calculating the damage from a century of drug prohibition

04/14/2019 18:59 EDT

This photo provided by the Defense Department's Missile Defense Agency, taken Jan. 28, 2016, shows a long-range ground-based interceptor is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. As North Korea rattles its nuclear saber and threatens to bomb the U.S. at any moment, a nerve-jangling question hangs in the air: If North Korea did launch a nuclear-armed missile at an American city, could the Pentagons missile defenses shoot it down beyond U.S. shores? (Defense Department's Missile Defense Agency via AP) (AP)

The great con: In missile defense, nothing succeeds like failure

Doug Vaughan

Progress is always elusive, but now coming at you even faster. And more expensive. Really, really

04/14/2019 14:00 EDT

Pete Buttigieg officially announces his presidential bid

Matthew Rozsa

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg declared his presidential candidacy official on Sunday

04/14/2019 13:30 EDT

Vladimir Putin; Julian Assange; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

Julian Assange and the future of democracy: Is this a turning point in World War IV?

Andrew O'Hehir

Assange's arrest was an authoritarian masterstroke, exposing intense confusion and hypocrisy on the anti-Trump left

04/14/2019 12:00 EDT

Donald Trump arrives by escalator inside Trump Tower to announce his campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination in New York, June 16, 2015. (Reuters/Brendan McDermid)

Can we stop pretending now?

Andrew J. Bacevich 04/13/2019 13:30 EDT

In this handout photo provided by The Guardian, Edward Snowden speaks during an interview in Hong Kong. (The Guardian via Getty Images)

Edward Snowden and activists claim Julian Assange’s arrest poses a threat to press freedom

Shira Tarlo

"Assange's critics may cheer, but this is a dark moment for press freedom," the NSA whistleblower says

04/11/2019 13:15 EDT

Julian Assange gestures to the media from a police vehicle on his arrival at Westminster Magistrates court on April 11, 2019 in London, England. (Getty Images/Jack Taylor)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange charged by US with conspiracy to hack a government computer

Shira Tarlo

Assange is accused of conspiring with former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning

04/11/2019 08:58 EDT

A U.S. Army soldier stands by Iraqi's Oil Ministry after it was hit by missiles, November 21, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq. (Getty/Joe Raedle)

Goodbye to all that: The forever wars go on without me

Danny Sjursen

Leaving the madness of Army life with a modest pension and all of my limbs intact feels like a genuine escape

04/08/2019 05:00 EDT

Pakistani commandos from the Special Services Group march during a military parade to mark Pakistan's Republic Day, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, March 23, 2017. President Mamnoon Hussain said Pakistan is ready to hold talks with India on all issues, including Kashmir, as he opened the annual military parade. During the parade, attended by several thousand people, Pakistan displayed nuclear-capable weapons, tanks, jets, drones and other weapons systems. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

South Asia’s nuclear-armed neighbors pull back from the abyss…barely

Dilip Hiro

India and Pakistan have created the most perilous place on Earth.

04/07/2019 13:30 EDT

Rand Paul; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; Ilhan Omar (Getty/Mark Wilson/Suzanne Cordeiro/AP/Susan Walsh)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar team up with Rand Paul to praise Trump for Syria withdrawal

Shira Tarlo

The unexpected trio and a group of ten other lawmakers wrote Trump on Wednesday to offer their "bipartisan support"

04/03/2019 17:24 EDT

Mayor Pete Buttigieg, of South Bend, Indiana (AP/Charles Krupa)

Mayor Pete Buttigieg says his 2020 presidential campaign raised $7 million in the first quarter

Shira Tarlo

It is an impressive sum for a long-shot candidate who was relatively known only a few months ago

04/01/2019 18:00 EDT

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (Getty/Alex Wong)

How to make yourself an exception to the rule of law

Rebecca Gordon

John Bolton and Mike Pompeo defy the International Criminal Court

03/31/2019 05:00 EDT

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speak as Tom Steyer looks on after the Democratic presidential primary debate at Drake University on January 14, 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa. Six candidates out of the field qualified for the first Democratic presidential primary debate of 2020, hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Do any of the Democratic presidential candidates understand the power of peace?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies

America’s future depends on it

03/30/2019 14:59 EDT