War and Peace

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White Nationalist Hate Is Infiltrating Our Police White Nationalist Hate Is Infiltrating Our Police

If Biden cares about what he calls the white supremacist “poison…running through our body politic,” his administration had better get busy purging the strain that courses through t...

Nov 15, 2022 / Column / Kali Holloway

The Pipeline Funneling US Deportees to Haitian Prison

The Pipeline Funneling US Deportees to Haitian Prison The Pipeline Funneling US Deportees to Haitian Prison

Patrick Julney is one of many longtime US residents who found himself detained under hellish conditions in a country in which he’d never been formally charged with a crime.

Nov 14, 2022 / Feature / Tanvi Misra

American airforce F-15 C fighters

Americans Live in a Culture of War Americans Live in a Culture of War

Important truths about our country get concealed when we make the violence of war into something sacred.

Nov 11, 2022 / Kelly Denton-Borhaug

Marine walks through WWI cemetery

Top 10 Veterans Day Songs Top 10 Veterans Day Songs

Songs about war and attendant suffering cut across musical genres.

Nov 11, 2022 / Peter Rothberg

European Foreign Minister Josep Borrell

The Perils of Fortress NATO, Gatekeepers to Europe’s Walled Garden The Perils of Fortress NATO, Gatekeepers to Europe’s Walled Garden

The West’s exclusive focus on Ukraine is creating a new global divide.

Nov 10, 2022 / Column / Jeet Heer

A black-and-white photo with a mushroom-shaped explosion.

How to Survive Our Apocalyptic Future How to Survive Our Apocalyptic Future

This world, however finite with its increasingly overwhelming problems, is still precious to me and worth a good fight. I can’t turn away from tomorrow.

Nov 8, 2022 / Frida Berrigan

The Problem With “Jihad, Rehab” Isn’t Filmmaker Meg Smaker’s Color or Religion

The Problem With “Jihad, Rehab” Isn’t Filmmaker Meg Smaker’s Color or Religion The Problem With “Jihad, Rehab” Isn’t Filmmaker Meg Smaker’s Color or Religion

The idea that a white woman cannot make a film about non-white men is absurd. But as “Meg,” the film’s narrator, her voice is the voice of the cop.

Nov 7, 2022 / Moustafa Bayoumi

Shireen Abu Akleh Protest

Can Young Voters Make Palestinian Rights a Major Issue? Can Young Voters Make Palestinian Rights a Major Issue?

Most Americans under 30 now feel sympathetic toward the Palestinian cause. But getting progressive politicians to support Palestine continues to be difficult.

Nov 3, 2022 / StudentNation / Isaac Lozano

In the World’s Obituary, Who Will Have the Last Word?

In the World’s Obituary, Who Will Have the Last Word? In the World’s Obituary, Who Will Have the Last Word?

Give humanity credit. When it comes to our urge to destroy, we seem to see no limits, not even those of our own existence.

Nov 3, 2022 / Tom Engelhardt

Mike Davis.

¡Compañero Mike Davis, Presente! ¡Compañero Mike Davis, Presente!

A requiem for a friend who embodied the commitment to the marriage of word and deed.

Nov 2, 2022 / Roberto Lovato

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