Twelve years in Afghanistan down the memory hole.

Eight exceptional(ly dumb) American achievements of the twenty-first century.

Before there was a civil war and before Syria became the world’s chessboard, there was a peaceful uprising for freedom and dignity.

Americans remain mostly blind to the abusive treatment of terror suspects on US soil.

Re-purposing America's war machine.

An in-depth look at the civilian toll of America’s longest war.

A key to The Nation's interactive database.

A recounting of three horrific US/ISAF civilian massacres, the procedures implemented to prevent such events from happening again—and why those procedures were inadequate.

Coalition forces sometimes pay compensation to civilian victims and survivors of the suffering we have inflicted—but ISAF keeps no comprehensive records, and the US military denies all responsibility.

Even among staunchly antiwar politicians and pundits, few bother to mention the cost of the war to civilians.