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August 6 marks sixty-eight years since the United States committed what is arguably the single gravest act of terrorism that the world has ever known.

At ceremonies held around the sixtieth anniversary of the Korean armistice, the president sounded bellicose notes, while failing to mention national unification.

Obama sounds the notes of racial justice at key moments, while asserting unprecedented power to implement policies that are destructive, discriminatory—and embodied by the NYPD commissioner.

What if your country begins to change and no one notices?

At least seventy-four people were killed in skirmishes between Morsi supporters and armed men this weekend.

What two versions of "justice" tell us about our one-superpower world.

And other headlines from an upside-down history of the US military and the world.

The anti-corruption activist’s mayoral campaign in Moscow is dividing voters, while testing the country’s diminished opposition party.

It took twelve months for the Brotherhood to go from the highest peaks of power to protesting in the streets of Cairo. What next for the organization?

Prometheus among the cannibals.