Whistling past the graveyard of empires.
The nearly $1 trillion national security budget.
Spending the same money on education, or clean energy, would bring many more jobs—among other benefits.
Judging by his advisers, Romney would embrace Bush’s unilateral interventionism and massive military budgets.
How a confrontation is shaping up between the US/NATO and the BRICS.
Anthony Shadid was an exceedingly rare reporter in the thinning ranks of American journalism.
The U.S. military is stuck in a four-decade rut.
How Pakistan makes Washington pay for the Afghan war.
Do the WikiLeaks War Logs reveal war crimes? Or do they reveal the poverty of international law?
By manipulating offshore havens, bogus bailouts and other loopholes, US corporations have gotten their tax rates down to a forty-year low.


