Future Generations Need to Know Our Nuclear Waste Is Deadly. How Can We Tell Them? Future Generations Need to Know Our Nuclear Waste Is Deadly. How Can We Tell Them?
When designing nuclear-waste storage facilities, how do we make them so uninviting that our descendants won’t get curious?
Jan 9, 2017 / The Nation
As Trump’s Inauguration Looms, the Window to Release Guantánamo Detainees Is Closing As Trump’s Inauguration Looms, the Window to Release Guantánamo Detainees Is Closing
Detainees cleared for release fear the Trump administration, which is all but certain to continue indefinite detention.
Jan 6, 2017 / John Knefel
Will the Trump Administration Approve a Military Deal Between Honduras and Israel? Will the Trump Administration Approve a Military Deal Between Honduras and Israel?
Allowing the deal would be a powerful sign that the new administration plans to revive the Nixon Doctrine.
Jan 5, 2017 / Greg Grandin
Remembering the Costs of the Iraq War in the Age of Trump Remembering the Costs of the Iraq War in the Age of Trump
As the president-elect promises to increase military spending, we must reflect on what comes with war.
Jan 5, 2017 / Phyllis Bennis
American Special Operations Forces Are Deployed to 70 Percent of the World’s Countries American Special Operations Forces Are Deployed to 70 Percent of the World’s Countries
Will Obama’s legacy as Commander-in-Chief continue under Trump?
Jan 5, 2017 / Nick Turse
Istanbul’s Bloody New Year’s Attack Struck at Its Cosmopolitan Heart Istanbul’s Bloody New Year’s Attack Struck at Its Cosmopolitan Heart
The city has seen its best features turned against itself: diversity and accessibility.
Jan 5, 2017 / Anna Lekas Miller
A New Era in American-Russian Relations A New Era in American-Russian Relations
So what if Putin next annexes Some country that’s the size of Texas Or throws some Russians in the clink For what they write or say or think? No strong objections will be lodged I…
Jan 5, 2017 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Birth of an Imperial Nation Birth of an Imperial Nation
A new history of 19th-century America captures how the United States was always an empire.
Jan 5, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Gabriel Winant
The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement
An eloquent call to reclaim our history and honor those who resisted the war, from a key architect of the opposition.
Jan 5, 2017 / Feature / Tom Hayden
Did Putin Really Launch a ‘Cyber–Pearl Harbor’ Against America? Did Putin Really Launch a ‘Cyber–Pearl Harbor’ Against America?
Hysteria over Russia’s alleged hacking of the 2016 presidential election may make this US-Russian crisis more dangerous than the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
Jan 4, 2017 / Stephen F. Cohen