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He was a soldier once…and young

Mark Wilkerson
Tomas Young was paralyzed and nearly killed in Iraq, but that's only where his remarkable tale of defiance begins

“Don’t be fooled by this glorious day”: A commencement speech for the doomed in our age of American decline

Tom Engelhardt
Win or lose, Donald Trump has cast a shadow across our democracy. The class of 2016 faces a grim, uncertain future

FBI criminal investigation emails: Clinton approved CIA drone assassinations with her cellphone, report says

Ben Norton
WSJ: FBI is investigating Hillary's classified emails on State Dept. approval of CIA drone killings in Pakistan

U.S. Army minister leaves “imperial” military to protest drone “unaccountable killing,” nuclear “policy of terror”

Ben Norton
"I refuse to serve as an empire chaplain," Chris Antal wrote in an open letter to Obama blasting U.S. militarism

Bush and Cheney belong in jail: America must answer for its illegal war on terror

Rebecca Gordon
The architects of Operation Condor are finally being brought to justice. U.S. officials are due a similar reckoning

“Thinking about how to transition”: David Means and Luke Mogelson, short story masters, contemplate the novel

David Means, Luke Mogelson
Two great writers -- one veteran, one newcomer -- discuss breaking out of cubbyholes and pondering first novels

Gloria Steinem’s new show links global instability to violence against women: “For the first time there are fewer females on earth than males”

Amanda Marcotte
Salon talks to the feminist pioneer about her all-female journalist team telling stories of women around the world

Afghans still suffer from U.S. war: Violence, displacement, hunger on rise while Europe deports refugees

Ben Norton
Amnesty Int. report: Displaced Afghans doubled to 1.2 million in 3 years, as the West abandons refugees it created

Far-right racist terror surges in Europe as Austrian neo-Nazi who threatened to massacre refugees is arrested

Ben Norton
Mass refugee influx and economic crisis are fueling the growth of racist attacks and Europe's nationalist far-right

America’s trillion-dollar travesty: We may never fully extricate ourselves from the Middle East

Andrew J. Bacevich
Obama calls the killing of a Taliban leader "an important milestone." Meanwhile war rages on in Iraq, Afghanistan

Our military justice oxymoron: Why we need to be more honest and realistic about the wars we fight — and the soldiers we send

Chris Bray
We rush soldiers into combat who never should've been there, then wonder why horrible things happen? We need change

The long con of military decline: How the right uses the armed forces to lie about America

Dan Ostlund
Listen to GOP and we're either the greatest fighting force ever, or on verge of decimation. So which one is it?

We may be just this screwed: Donald Trump has an easier path to victory than you think

Musa al-Gharbi
Trump and Clinton share very high negatives. Hillary's may end up being harder to turn around

Either one will lead to war: Hawkish Hillary and reckless Trump could both lead to prolonged new wars

Paul Rosenberg
We've fueled a dangerous dynamic in Middle East for decades. In different ways, Trump and Hillary make it scarier

Music with a message: Cornel West on injustice in the “age of Ferguson,” during the horrific rise of Trump

Ben Norton
EXCLUSIVE: "Cornel West Concerto" star & composer Arturo O'Farrill discuss politics, jazz, corporate music industry

Sanders’ impressive activist DNC platform committee could help transform U.S. progressive politics

Ben Norton
Bernie selected Cornel West, Keith Ellison, Bill McKibben, a pro-Palestine advocate and a Native American activist

“This will stop only when the American people get fed up”: American exceptionalism, the New York Times, and our foreign policy after Barack Obama

Patrick L. Smith
Our smartest modern military historian explains to Salon what's wrong about our adventures in the Middle East

Curtis Sittenfeld’s updated Jane Austen influences: “CrossFit, reality television, Skyline chili, Gloria Steinem”

Teddy Wayne
Salon asks 5 authors—Sittenfeld,Geoff Dyer, Allison Amend, Anton DiSclafani and Paula Whyman—about their new books

5 lessons America has failed to learn from the Iraq War

Peter Van Buren
After vowing not to put boots on the ground, Obama has now committed troops to Syria and Yemen. Here we go again

We’ll be fighting forever: America just can’t kick its addiction to war

Tom Engelhardt
Washington still believes military action will solve its terror problem. Our policymakers need an intervention

“The scope of our failure”: The real story of our decades-long foreign policy disaster that set the Middle East on fire

Patrick L. Smith
The brilliant Andrew Bacevich tells Salon why our massive march to folly in Middle East has to be seen as one war

Noam Chomsky: America has made the world a more dangerous place

Noam Chomsky
America's leftist conscience explores the devastating consequences of our war on terror. Part 2 of a 2-part excerpt

Noam Chomsky: America is an empire in decline

Noam Chomsky
The celebrated political scientist talks neoliberalism, Western triumphalism and more. Part 1 of a 2-part excerpt

Jeremy Scahill, Glenn Greenwald blast U.S. drone war and “assassination complex,” say liberals would never let a Republican get away with Obama’s crimes

Ben Norton
In its new book "The Assassination Complex," The Intercept details the shocking dystopian powers the U.S. has
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