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Rajan Menon
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Rajan Menon is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations at the Powell School, City College of New York, and Senior Research Fellow at Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. He is the author, most recently, of The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention .
With as many as 23 million American renters facing eviction, homelessness will likely grow worse.
This pandemic is a stress test for our fragile political and economic systems.
One in five American children live in poverty, even as pundits tout employment highs.
Hypersonic missiles are the latest entrant to our doomsday logic.
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Suicide rates in the US have skyrocketed as both income inequality and the percent of uninsured adults continue to grow.
Recent scandals in politics and higher education show how the rich perpetuate inequality in the US.
Opioid overdoses claimed nearly 50,000 American lives in 2017 alone, more than 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
Practically the only allies the president hasn’t alienated are extremists from Europe’s far right.
Americans and Saudis are creating their own enemy in Yemen.
Conflict abroad is not the biggest threat to most Americans’ lives.
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