The Worlds of Noam Chomsky The Worlds of Noam Chomsky
If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, it’s almost certainly Chomsky.
Jan 13, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Bessner
Donald Trump’s 21st-Century Colonialism Donald Trump’s 21st-Century Colonialism
Trump’s obsession with claiming Greenland and its people for the US is just a new version of the same old imperialist story.
Jan 9, 2025 / John Nichols
Trump’s Second Presidency Will Only Accelerate America's Imperial Decline Trump’s Second Presidency Will Only Accelerate America's Imperial Decline
Trump is on track to bring a hasty end, silent or otherwise, to an “American Century” of global dominion.
Nov 21, 2024 / Alfred McCoy
South Africa’s ICJ Case Against Israel Is a Call to Break Free From the Imperial West South Africa’s ICJ Case Against Israel Is a Call to Break Free From the Imperial West
South Africa is not only challenging Israel—it is trying to break the spell of US hegemony.
Jan 11, 2024 / Tony Karon
Kevin McCarthy’s Empire of Lies Kevin McCarthy’s Empire of Lies
The former House speaker is currently spouting a wildly inaccurate take on the history of American empire.
Nov 28, 2023 / John Nichols
Henry Kissinger, Elliott Abrams, and the Rot of American Foreign Policy Henry Kissinger, Elliott Abrams, and the Rot of American Foreign Policy
Our bipartisan elite is always willing to forgive war crimes by its made men.
Jul 7, 2023 / Jeet Heer
Happy Anti-Imperialist Fourth of July Happy Anti-Imperialist Fourth of July
John Quincy Adams warned on July 4, 1821, that the US should speak "the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights"—not of empire. He was right.
Jul 4, 2023 / John Nichols
Is America Worth Saving? Is America Worth Saving?
Known as “the arsenal of democracy” during World War II, America has now simply become an arsenal.
Jun 9, 2023 / William Astore
The Ghosts of the British Empire The Ghosts of the British Empire
In his new book Empireland, Sathnam Sanghera examines how the British Empire's pieties and fictions persist to this day.
Apr 18, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Priya Satia
Preparing for War in the South China Sea Preparing for War in the South China Sea
Ahead of massive war games involving US and Filipino troops, the Defense Department announced that it will gain access to four new military sites in the Philippines.
Apr 7, 2023 / Sarah Lazare