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Why Biden Should Continue Withdrawing After Afghanistan Why Biden Should Continue Withdrawing After Afghanistan

The political cost of leaving Afghanistan has largely been paid—and the geopolitical consequences have been positive.

Oct 26, 2021 / Trita Parsi, Beatrix Geaghan-Breiner, and Artin DerSimonian

Climate Change Has Exposed the Decline of the American Empire

Climate Change Has Exposed the Decline of the American Empire Climate Change Has Exposed the Decline of the American Empire

Responding to the climate crisis has become a race against time, and our government still dawdles at the starting line.

Oct 26, 2021 / William deBuys

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Who Will Be the Barbara Lee of the Next Great Disaster? Who Will Be the Barbara Lee of the Next Great Disaster?

And will we believe her this time?

Oct 22, 2021 / Rebecca Gordon

Were the Recent Haiti Kidnappings Business, Politics—or Both?

Were the Recent Haiti Kidnappings Business, Politics—or Both? Were the Recent Haiti Kidnappings Business, Politics—or Both?

Both the assassination of Jovenel Moïse and the recent kidnapping of the Christian missionaries should be seen as a kind of blowback—blowback that has exposed our deplorable and fa...

Oct 21, 2021 / Column / Amy Wilentz

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Letters From the November 1/8, 2021, Issue Letters From the November 1/8, 2021, Issue

Our carbon bootprint… The forgotten forever war… Fuzzy math… Feminism: left and white? (web only)…

Oct 19, 2021 / Our Readers and Rafia Zakaria

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To Avoid Armageddon, Don’t Modernize Missiles—Eliminate Them To Avoid Armageddon, Don’t Modernize Missiles—Eliminate Them

Land-based nuclear weapons are world-ending accident waiting to happen, and completely superfluous to a reliable deterrent.

Oct 19, 2021 / Daniel Ellsberg and Norman Solomon

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Meet Representative Elaine Luria, Chowderhead Meet Representative Elaine Luria, Chowderhead

The Virginia Democrat wants Congress to give the president the authority to go to war with China. Because the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was such a shining success.

Oct 14, 2021 / Column / Andrew J. Bacevich

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I Lived Through the US Military’s Culture of Surveillance I Lived Through the US Military’s Culture of Surveillance

As a military spouse, I’ve been threatened, silenced, monitored, and shamed by the very people my husband fought alongside.

Oct 13, 2021 / Andrea Mazzarino

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How “Terror Capitalism” Links Uyghur Oppression to the Global Economy How “Terror Capitalism” Links Uyghur Oppression to the Global Economy

The camps in Xinjiang and undocumented work in the US are part of the same continuum of unfreedom.

Oct 12, 2021 / Darren Byler

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With the War on Terror, America Failed Upward With the War on Terror, America Failed Upward

What have America’s elites learned from two decades of global conflict? Almost nothing.

Oct 8, 2021 / Karen J. Greenberg

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