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A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber escorted by 2 F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters fly over the White House as US president Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump participate in the Military Family Picnic on the South Lawn of the White House. ( Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

The $1 trillion black box

Jesse Coburn, Ruth Talbot - ProPublica
An 1801 illustration of the USS Enterprise capturing Tripolitan Corsair, layered behind ships anchored in the Gulf of Oman on June 21, 2026, as U.S.-Iran tensions eased and the Strait of Hormuz prepared to reopen. (Illustration by Salon / Shady Alassar / Anadolu via Getty Images / National Archives)

The war that defined America

Troy Farah
US President Donald Trump announces the US Navy's new Golden Fleet initiative, unveiling a new class of warships, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on December 22, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump wants $1.5T military budget: Why?

Russell Payne
An MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) is prepared for training mission at Creech Air Force Base on November 17, 2015 in Indian Springs, Nevada. (Isaac Brekken/Getty Images)

The military’s big bet on AI

Sarah Scoles - Undark
Woman gliding through the web on a skateboard (Getty Images/We Are)

The Internet exists because of the state

Matthew Rozsa
Toy soldier fighting on money (Getty Images)

Permanent war will destroy America

Chris Hedges
Members of Pro-Russian separatists patrol the pro-Russian separatists-controlled Donetsk, Ukraine on March 11, 2022. (Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Making endless war great again

Chris Hedges
US Army helicopters are parked in the port of Alexandroupoli, Northern Greece, on December 3, 2021. (SAKIS MITROLIDIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Congress loots Treasury for war machine

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Digital identity fingerprint scanner (Getty Images)

The Pentagon already knows who you are

Chauncey DeVega
Toy soldier fighting on money (Getty Images)

How war makes the climate crisis worse

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
In this photograph taken on January 3, 2018, Afghan commandos forces patrol during ongoing US-Afghan military operation against Islamic State militants in Achin district of Nangarhar province. Afghan security forces are conducting most of the fighting against the Taliban and other insurgent groups as US troops operate alongside them in a training capacity and are frequently on the front lines. (NOORULLAH SHIRZADA/AFP via Getty Images)

Can America defund the "warfare state"?

Chauncey DeVega
14th International Defence Industry Fair (IDEF) held in Istanbul, Turkey on April 30, 2019. (Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Who really "won" in Afghanistan?

Shaan Sachdev
(Illustration by Calvin Shen)

Decline and fall of the American empire

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Joe Biden, Antony Blinken and Dwight Eisenhower (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Is Ike's ghost haunting Biden's team?

Nicolas J.S. Davies
Michele Flournoy and Tony Blinken (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

War profiteers and Biden's Cabinet

Norman Solomon
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference after the G-20 Summit on June 29, 2019 in Osaka, Japan. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)

A world being made for war

Cassandra Stimpson, Holly Zhang - TomDispatch.com
Police confront demonstrators as Black Lives Matter supporters demonstrate | Protesters hold their fists in the air during the protest against racism following the Black Lives Matter movement (John Rudoff/Anadolu Agency/Ying Tang/NurPhoto/Getty Images)

Killing democracy in America

William J. Astore - TomDispatch.com
(AP/Evan Vucci/LM Ottero)

Beware: Pentagon’s pandemic profiteers

Mandy Smithberger - TomDispatch.com
(Getty Images)

A recipe for disaster

Mandy Smithberger - TomDispatch.com
Dick Cheney, Qassem Soleimani, and Bernie Sanders (AP Photo/Salon)

America's war machine and the Democrats

David Masciotra
A soldier stands next to the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on November 13, 2019. - At least seven people were killed and seven wounded when a car bomb detonated during Kabul's busy morning rush hour on November 13, an interior ministry spokesman said. (Photo by STR / AFP) (Photo by (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

America loves war: Can we give it up?

David Masciotra
FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015, file photo, an F-35 jet arrives at its new operational base at Hill Air Force Base, in northern Utah. Shares of Lockheed Martin fell Monday, Dec. 12, 2016, as President-elect Donald Trump tweeted that making F-35 fighter planes is too costly and that he will cut "billions" in costs for military purchases. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) (AP)

The costly, underwhelming F-35 fighter

William J. Astore - TomDispatch.com
FILE - In this July 7, 2006, file photo, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is shown after it was unveiled in a ceremony in Fort Worth, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File) (AP)

Merger mania

William D. Hartung
(AP Photo/Mic Smith)

Our man from Boeing

William D. Hartung, Mandy Smithberger - TomDispatch.com
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