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Back to school after a turbulent summer: How can we help kids celebrate life in these times?
D. Watkins
Kids are dealing with Trump's order to rescind DACA, Charlottesville, hometown murders and deportations
Charlottesville, transgender troops and the 24 Percent Salvation Army
Lucian K. Truscott IV
Can Trump shovel enough red meat to keep his presidency alive?
A skeptical liberal’s guide to the “alt-left”: And it’s not who you think
Anis Shivani
If the term means anything, it should be applied to the mainstream Democrats who lost last year's election
Has Trump been tamed by his generals and the Pentagon?
Jefferson Morley
Amid crises, the Pentagon seeks to get an erratic commander-in-chief under control
Pundits still fall for it: Trump does bare minimum in Texas, and suddenly he’s presidential
Bob Cesca
Trump wanders through a second visit to the disaster zone; talking heads see "a remarkably different president"
One more reason the trans ban is idiotic: High school grads aren’t ready for the military (or life)
Bob Hennelly
Military brass knows that fewer and fewer young Americans are prepared to serve, or to succeed. There's an answer
The road to torture: How the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation techniques” became legal after 9/11
Joseph Hickman, John Kiriakou
The CIA’s torture techniques—10 in total—increased in severity as one went down the list
We already know what Erik Prince’s Afghanistan would look like because he’s done it before
Charlie May
Prince says "contractors, not troops, will save Afghanistan." We need only look at his résumé to see the lie of it
These dockworkers just showed the labor movement how to shut down fascists
PETER COLE
The San Francisco Bay Area branch of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union demonstrates what can be done
Time to give up on identity politics: It’s dragging the progressive agenda down
Anis Shivani
Identity politics has only served to disempower the left and fuel the rise of white nationalism. Can we move on?
How men recover from war
Jefferson Morley
A photographer and a Marine confront their demons in "Shooting Ghosts."
Fox News poll: 56 percent say Trump is “tearing the country apart”
Charlie May
That's right, a Fox News poll!
The New York Times invites Erik Prince to advocate for privatizing the Afghanistan war
Charlie May
The founder of Blackwater continues to advocate for his plan to use mercenaries in America's longest war
Exploring the shadows of America’s security state
Alfred McCoy
How I learned not to love Big Brother
Why Trump’s new strategy for Afghanistan is the disaster you’d expect it to be
Vijay Prashad
A battlefield for an endless American war
Trump’s reversal on Afghanistan heightens the contradictions — his and ours
Paul Rosenberg
Trump's abrupt embrace of the disastrous elite consensus on Afghanistan reflects the deep divisions of our era
Torture and silence: A shattering exhibit of photos by Andres Serrano confronts what we don’t talk about
Anis Shivani
Photographer made famous years ago for "Piss Christ" confronts empty spaces, ambiguous bodies and the unsayable
Afghanistan is now officially James Mattis’s war
Simon Reich
Obama abandoned the goal of nation building after billions of dollars were spent and 2,400 American lives were lost
Trump’s “new” strategy in Afghanistan is doomed to fail
Alon Ben-Meir
After 16 years of fighting, dispatching an additional force of 4,000 soldiers will not change anything
My hometown Confederate war
David Masciotra
Our Illinois public high school blithely flew the Confederate flag for years. Then demographics began to change
Trump’s 6 biggest history fails since entering the White House
Charlie May
Trump's misunderstanding of the past presents serious questions about our future
Trump has no time or words for America’s dead sailors and their families
Lucian K. Truscott IV
One dead in Charlottesville. Ten dead or missing at sea. Zero words spoken by Donald Trump
Yeah, there’s still a Russia probe — and it looks worse for Trump all the time
Heather Digby Parton
Trump has hissy-fits at GOP senators while Mueller interviews "Dossier Guy." Bipartisan consensus: Big trouble
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