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March 26, 2019
Why Are We Above International Law?
The Trump administration’s rejection of the International Criminal Court is the latest example of America’s toxic exceptionalism.
Rebecca Gordon
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March 26, 2019
It Is Long Past Time for a National Reckoning With the Catastrophic Costs of Endless War
We need space for real dissent from the views of a foreign policy establishment that has so clearly failed us.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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March 19, 2019
America’s Generals Have Learned Nothing From Our Failed Wars
The senior officials responsible for our military failures are guiding us to more of the same.
William Astore
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March 11, 2019
The Trump Administration Wants a War with Iran
Neoconservatives in Washington are ready to spark America’s next military disaster—one that may well be worse than the Iraq War.
Bob Dreyfuss
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March 5, 2019
Progressives Are Starting to Define a New Realism for Our National-Security Strategy
The weakest response of Democrats to Trump would be to defend the old foreign-policy consensus.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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February 21, 2019
How the Failure of Our Foreign Wars Fueled Nativist Fanaticism
For nearly two centuries, US politicians have channeled extremism outward. But the frontier is gone, the empire is faltering, and the chickens are coming home to roost.
Greg Grandin
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December 11, 2018
Sanders and Warren Are Challenging the Post–Cold War Foreign-Policy Establishment
It is time to think anew. The United States needs dramatic changes in its policies and the institutions that enforce them.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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November 12, 2018
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October 25, 2018
The Pentagon Has Won Its Most Important War
Despite a losing record, today’s military doesn’t have to atone for its failures.William Astore
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October 22, 2018
The War Anniversary You Forgot to Mark
The media have forgotten about America’s longest war.
Tom Engelhardt