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September 20, 2022
What Do Americans Care About? Not a Cold War With Russia and China.
Americans’ top security concerns include safety at home and protecting jobs.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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September 20, 2022
Reining In the War Economy
It’s time to end the Pentagon’s stranglehold on our national budget.
William D. Hartung
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September 15, 2022
An Inflated Pentagon Budget Is Not in the Country’s Best Interest
Scamming the taxpayer has become a way of life for the national security state.
Julia Gledhill and William D. Hartung
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June 21, 2022
The Pentagon Gets More Money, and Americans Pay the Price
What’s all this new defense spending for?
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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April 29, 2022
Our Floundering Public School System Is Failing Teachers
Wherever you want to lay the blame, the solution isn’t hard to find—it’s just expensive.
Frida Berrigan
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April 13, 2022
The Leftist Argument for Not Paying Your Taxes
Not paying taxes for unjust wars has a long history in this country.
Rebecca Gordon
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April 6, 2022
What Will It Take to Shrink the Pentagon’s Budget?
We have now reached the point in our collective history where we face three certainties: death, taxes, and ever-soaring spending on weaponry and war.
William Astore
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March 25, 2022
We Don’t Need to Go Back to Cold War Spending—We’re Already There
Before Washington embarks on a new Cold War, it’s time to remind ourselves of the global consequences of the last one.
William D. Hartung, Nick Cleveland-Stout and Taylor Giorno
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February 23, 2022
Russia, Ukraine, and the New Bipartisanship in Washington
Democrats and Republicans unite in boosting Pentagon spending.
Michael T. Klare
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February 4, 2022
Another Banner Year for the Military-Industrial Complex
Opposing Build Back Better while throwing so much more money at the Pentagon marks the ultimate in budgetary and national-security hypocrisy.
William D. Hartung