Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 81)
The things I still carry
Rory Fanning
After 9/11, I gave up college to become an army ranger. I refuse to let high school students make the same mistake
“Homeland” made me laugh: Here’s what it’s really like being a CIA agent in the Middle East
Scott Timberg
Salon talks to the author of "Left of Boom" about bureaucracy, Bourne and Bond, and infiltrating Al-Qaeda
The talk-radio godfather of Trumpamania: What Michael Savage can tell us about America’s white working class
Robert Hennelly
While Trump was still gladhanding his way through polite society, Savage built an army of disgruntled Americans
Islamophobia on Fox News: Delusional “Fox and Friends” pundit Bo Dietl equates Muslim communities with “motorcycle gangs up in the Bronx”
Brendan Gauthier
Dietl called it "baloney" for critics to say that his push for targeted surveillance is dangerously Islamophobic
We are torturers and murderers: America’s first casualty of war is the Constitution
Andrew J. Bacevich
W dispensed with the Eighth Amendment; Obama with the Fifth and Fourteenth. Through it all, Congress has been MIA
Put the blame where it belongs: Bush, Reagan, Kissinger and the real history of the rise of ISIS
Paul Rosenberg
Conservative intellectuals are now trying to blame Marxism for ISIS. Time for a history lesson
My week inside the Donald Trump campaign: Sheriff Joe, Sean Hannity and behind the scenes at an Arizona rally and Trump HQ
Alexander Zaitchik
Build the wall! End Common Core! I embedded with aggravated Trump supporters and emerged knowing who they are
Megyn Kelly unloads on Trump spokesperson Katrina Pierson for defending her candidate’s constant flip-flopping
Scott Eric Kaufman
Of particular concern is his inability to offer consistent positions when any subject related to women is raised
Pacifism in an age of terror: Author of fascinating new book explores the relationship between violence and freedom
Sean Illing
Professor and author Dustin Howes challenges the axiom that force is needed to defend freedom
Donald Trump slouches towards Bethlehem: We’re witnessing the birth of a new American politics
Tom Engelhardt
The GOP is in shambles. The Democrats may not be far behind. Is this the beginning of the end of our democracy?
“We are the death merchant of the world”: Ex-Bush official Lawrence Wilkerson condemns military-industrial complex
Ben Norton
The military-industrial complex "is much more pernicious than Eisenhower ever thought," says the retired US colonel
Michael Ware’s Iraq War doc doesn’t hold up: “Only The Dead See The End Of War” captures the horror and confusion, but skimps on analysis
Sonia Saraiya
The Time and CNN war correspondent's disconnected HBO documentary could have been a nonfictional “The Hurt Locker”
We brought this on ourselves, and we are the terrorists, too
Patrick L. Smith
There is no more ducking the point: It's not terror only when it happens to us. Our "shock and awe" is terror, too
The myth of the good victim: As an American facing street harassment abroad, I wondered what it meant to be a “good victim”
Patricia Grisafi
"The moment that man took his penis out, my fantasies of an ideal study abroad experience in Florence disappeared"
Hear this, Sanders supporters — you don’t need to back Hillary: You have every right to say “Bernie or bust”
Brogan Morris
Bernie backers want change, not the status quo that Clinton offers, so they have no obligation to her in November
The rise of the Brussels hawks: Everybody is terrified of Donald Trump, but why aren’t they worried about Hillary Clinton too?
Daniel Denvir
Yesterday's horrific terror attacks in Belgium sparked a predictable, disconcerting wave of Western saber-rattling
An army of none: The U.S. military is more powerful, less accountable and more dangerous than ever before
William Astore
Americans delighted in the end of conscription. Decades later, it's taken an unexpected toll on our democracy
Mr. Trump goes to Washington: The surreal spectacle of a know-nothing GOP frontrunner
Heather Digby Parton
On an eventful day capped with an incoherent speech before AIPAC, Trump showed exactly why his campaign is so scary
How jingoism wasted the world: Why liberals finally need to admit that the Afghanistan invasion was wrong
Daniel Denvir
For years, Democrats have clung to the idea that Afghanistan was "the good war." This isn't just wrong, it's deadly
Democrats, you can’t vote for Hillary: The case for writing in Bernie Sanders If Hillary Clinton is the nominee
H. A. Goodman
We need structural change: Clinton as president would merge GOPers and Dems into one party on war & foreign policy
“Homeless and hungry — please help!”: Baltimore’s panhandlers ask for our sympathy and loose change. Why are they so polarizing?
Matt Lallo
Some people give without exception, others never. I set out to meet the individuals who incite both pity & acrimony
5 foreign policy questions we’ll never ask our presidential candidates
Peter Van Buren
What is the endgame for our war on terror? And at what point do we begin pairing back the size of our military?
Our nominee is a disaster: Time may be running out, but Democrats will come to rue Clinton over Sanders
H. A. Goodman
Why there's no chance in hell I'm voting for Hillary — and you shouldn't either
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