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No, Democrats aren’t launching a civil war on July 4. But could it happen here again?
Chauncey DeVega
Salon talks to "American War" author Omar El Akkad about why "the first civil war doesn’t feel to have truly ended"
Credit-card wars: How America’s wars fund inequality at home
Stephanie Savell
Today’s war-financing strategies will only increase inequality
A new world is dawning, and the US will no longer lead it
Gordon Adams
Trump's role in international affairs is costing the U.S. its position as a global superpower
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Tune in for conversations around the evolution of sneaker culture and films “Leave No Trace” and “Shock and Awe”
The military industrial drain
Robert Reich
Since 2001, the Pentagon budget has soared from $456 billion — in today’s dollars — to $700 billion
American wars and self-decline: How the last superpower was unchained
Tom Engelhardt
A twenty-first century history of greed
Donald Trump has been lying since day one
Lucian K. Truscott IV
A look back at his lie-filled announcement for president
Trump: A new Reagan? Or a new Chamberlain?
Alexei Bayer
Trump is weakening the United States, emboldening its enemies and shattering the world order.
God-emperor Donald Trump wants to rule the world: The good news is he’s terrible at it
Heather Digby Parton
Trump is now testing, and stretching, the limits of presidential power, both at home and abroad. It's not good
A “Bar Rescue” in Puerto Rico: Helping a business — and community — rebuild after Hurricane Maria
Erin Keane
Reality TV steps in to help a couple grappling with the unglamorous reality of rebuilding after a disaster
Trump drones on: How unpiloted aircraft expand the war on terror
Rebecca Gordon
President Trump has no qualms about the CIA’s involvement in drone killings
The U.S. considered declaring Russia a state sponsor of terror, then dropped it
Sebastian Rotella
The U.S. case against Russia as a sponsor of terrorism has grown substantially over the past decade
Bangladeshi rappers wield rhymes as a weapon, with Tupac as their guide
Mubashar Hasan
Over the past 15 years or so, a new kind of musical activism has emerged in Bangladesh
Five strangers, one canceled flight: Our epic overnight carpool to Kansas
Julia Satterthwaite
We had nothing in common except we needed to be 500 miles from where we were when the plane was grounded
Ranks of notorious hate group include active-duty military
A.C. Thompson, Ali Winston, Jake Hanrahan
A Marine took part in the violent assaults in Charlottesville last summer and later bragged about it online
Switching sides: Whitewashing history in the age of Trump
Hillary Clinton condemned U.S. President Donald Trump for his creeping fascism. Has she forgotten her own past?
Here’s how ICE sent children seeking asylum to adult detention centers
Aura Bogado
ICE continues to disobey Congressional orders to stop dental and bone scans on minors seeking asylum in the U.S.
War and the imperial presidency
Danny Sjursen
Congress offers a bipartisan blank check to Donald Trump
What “Roseanne” doesn’t say about race speaks volumes
Melanie McFarland
Now we know why Season 10 of the ABC sitcom has avoided specific conversations about race: It doesn't know how
Why can’t the world’s best military win its wars?
Arnold R. Isaacs
Americans need to rethink war and look honestly at ourselves and our friends
LeBron James, peacemaker: The evolution of the modern black political athlete
Howard Bryant
Unlike Muhammad Ali before them, black athletes' activism now resembles a corporate bridge between the races
Michelle Wolf is right to reject the empty ritual of the forced apology — just ask Miley and Kathy
Mary Elizabeth Williams
A new day: Michelle Wolf isn't playing along and Miley Cyrus and Kathy Griffith are taking their old sorries back
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