The mob that breached the US embassy was angry about an anti-Muslim film—but the country’s resentment of US policy runs much deeper.

Military operations and arms sales are what America knows best. 

How an American disaster paved the way for Big Oil’s rise—and possible fall—in Iraq.

If US troops find themselves morally injured, shouldn’t we ask: Who put them in the position to suffer such wounds in the first place?

Revelations about Obama's drone assassinations led to official outrage—against the leakers. It's the policy that warrants investigation.

The MSNBC host and Nation editor at large has always been a thoughtful and fair journalist. That includes how he conducted himself in the controversy around his Memorial Day show.

President Barack Obama and his apostles.

Globalizing the “Global War on Terror.”

The new trajectory of US warfare.

Whistling past the graveyard of empires.