U.S. foreign policy has its flaws, but nation-building is different than imperialism

Secret U.S. Military documents reveal a constellation of American military bases across that continent

The pope's upcoming visit to Cuba and meeting with Fidel Castro is being depicted as a sort of ideological shootout: believer vs. atheist, Catholic vs. Communist, Old World vs. New. But the reality is much more complex.

Nolan's epic film ignores the Indian and African troops who fought the Nazis. Minor oversight or massive fail?

Endless incarceration. Extrajudicial killing. Pervasive surveillance. America is anything but a model democracy

Doddering Cold War adversaries are marching toward war: For their decrepit elites, it's literally the last hurrah

W. and Cheney have faded from public view, but Obama continues to carry out their destructive war on terror

Between pressures from Israel, the Pentagon and Washington elites, the nation will likely remain Obama's top threat

Why is American aggression missing in action?

As NATO's military footprint expands far beyond Europe to confront China, the planet's survival is in doubt

As our military boldly goes where no other country's will, we must dispense with the illusion we're a force of good

Nearly all the people killed in U.S. wars since 9/11 have been people of color — and we almost don't notice

The 30 richest Americans own as much as half of the US population, and data suggest mobility is a thing of the past