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Deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller speaks to the media, Sept. 5, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

MAGA's war on woke is centuries old

Andrew O'Hehir
A demonstrator protesting against ICE in Houston, Texas on Jan. 8, 2026. (Mark Felix / AFP via Getty Image)

America reaches its breaking point

Brian Karem
President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Feb. 26, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump: End of the American century

Alfred McCoy - TomDispatch.com
Donald Trump and a view of the widespread destruction in Gaza, Jabalia. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's Gaza vision: Imperialism on acid

Andrew O'Hehir
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Donald Trump and an American flag on fire (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's second term could reshape world

Alfred McCoy - TomDispatch.com
World and money burning (Getty Images/dimdimich)

Climate change could end America's power

Alfred McCoy - TomDispatch.com
Joe Biden | A view of damaged houses as Russia-Ukraine war continues in Dolyna, Ukraine on March 13, 2024. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Is the American empire near collapse?

Alfred McCoy - TomDispatch.com
A screen grab captured from a video shared online shows Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Russian private security company Wagner, holding a rifle in a desert area while wearing camouflage in a video for the first time after his rebellion against the Russian administration in an unspecified location in Africa on August 21, 2023. (Wagner Account/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The downfall of France's African empire

Alfred McCoy - TomDispatch.com
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The School of Athens | Trash, Pollution, Environmental Problems (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Did Western philosophy ruin Earth?

Michael Paul Nelson, Kathleen Dean Moore
The author (left) with his father and son, on a visit to his native village in Sudan, circa 2000. (Courtesy of Mohammad Ali Salih)

The British built my elementary school

Mohammad Ali Salih
Asteroid (Getty Images)

Wealthy nations carving up space riches

Theodora Ogden - The Conversation
Joe Biden | Razor wire tops the fence of the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden's democracy summit: Oh, the irony

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
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A peace activist holds a peace sign (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

Can America now wake up, please?

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Miku Martineau in "Kate" (Netflix)

"Kate"'s imperialism still big in Japan

Kylie Cheung
In this handout provided by the U.S. Air Force, an air crew assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron assists evacuees aboard a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 21, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Taylor Crul/U.S. Air Force via Getty Images)

The graveyard of empire strikes back

Chris Hedges
Recently-arrived refugees from Afghanistan seen at a temporary camp at the U.S. Army's Rhine Ordnance Barracks (ROB), where they are being temporarily housed, on August 30, 2021 in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Several U.S. military facilities with the capacity to house up to several thousand evacuees are participating, in an operation called Operation Allied Refuge. (Sascha Schuermann/Getty Images)

A crushing blow to empire? Good

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
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In this White House handout, U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris (off-camera) hold a video conference with the national security team to discuss the ongoing efforts to draw down our civilian footprint in Afghanistan August 16, 2021 at Camp David in Frederick County, Maryland. In addition, the President and Vice President were briefed on the earthquake in Haiti. (White House via Getty Images)

No, Biden didn't "lose" Afghanistan

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Afghan Taliban militants and villagers attend a gathering as they celebrate the peace deal and their victory in the Afghan conflict on US in Afghanistan, in Alingar district of Laghman Province on March 2, 2020. - The Taliban said on March 2 they were resuming offensive operations against Afghan security forces, ending the partial truce that preceded the signing of a deal between the insurgents and Washington. (NOORULLAH SHIRZADA/AFP via Getty Images)

Afghan exit: End of the American empire?

Chris Hedges
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex meets children as she attends the Commonwealth Day Service 2020 on March 09, 2020 in London, England. (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

Harry & Meghan's assimilation fantasy

Kylie Cheung
Infantrymen of the US 8th Army pour ashore in the Subic Bay area of Luzon Island in the northern Philippines, en route to Manila during World War II. (Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Unraveling of the American empire

Chris Hedges
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United Nation's Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq, Denis Halliday (L), walks with UN chief Kofi Annan's special assistant Shashi Tharoor of India, Annan's political advisor Rolf Knutsson of Sweden (2nd L) and the head of the Iraqi foreign ministry protocol, Qais al-Karkhi, 19 February in Baghdad. Annan sent a UN advance team to Iraq ahead of a last-ditch effort to end a standoff over weapons inspections and avert a military strike. (KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images)

UN rebel on the collapse of world order

Nicolas J.S. Davies
Rich man wearing smoking jacket raising glass, portrait (Getty Images)

Why we love the billionaire class

Doug Neiss
Syrian Arab and Kurdish civilians arrive to Hassakeh city after fleeing following Turkish bombardment on Syria's northeastern towns along the Turkish border on October 10, 2019. (Delil Souleiman/AFP aia Getty Images)

How the media sells war to liberals

Alan MacLeod - FAIR
The Belt and Road Initiative supply chain base is in construction on 08th June, 2020 in Lianyungang, Jiangsu, China. (TPG/Getty Images)

How China is reshaping the planet

Eyck Freymann
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