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In this April 14, 1947 file photo, a long line winds toward the entrance to Morrisania Hospital in the Bronx borough of New York, where doctors are inoculating against smallpox. In an attempt to halt the spread of the disease, officials said city residents were being vaccinated at the rate of eight a minute. (AP Photo)

Measles cases flare beyond 700 and anti-vaxxers — the apex helicopter parent — are to blame

Lucian K. Truscott IV

If you think measles is bad, you should have been around for polio

05/01/2019 19:00 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/Jack Taylor)

Julian Assange sentenced to 50 weeks in prison in bail-jumping case

Shira Tarlo

Sentencing comes a day before WikiLeaks founder faces extradition hearing over computer hacking allegations

05/01/2019 09:50 EDT

How the Pentagon took ownership of Donald Trump

William J. Astore

Six ways to curb America’s military machine

05/01/2019 03:00 EDT

Pete Buttigieg (Getty/KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI)

Pete Buttigieg might borrow John McCain’s bus tour strategy for 2020 campaign

Shira Tarlo

Buttigieg's magical mystery tour would invite reporters to get on the bus and grill the candidate anytime, anywhere

04/29/2019 15:38 EDT

The end of war is just a beginning

Allegra Harpootlian, Emily Manna

Will technology stamp a “forever” on America’s wars?

04/29/2019 13:00 EDT

The Punisher skull: Unofficial logo of the white American death cult

David Masciotra

The Marvel vigilante has been adopted by deluded macho wingnuts who completely miss the point of the character

04/28/2019 15:30 EDT

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

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