Putin’s Support Among the Far Right Is Splintering Putin’s Support Among the Far Right Is Splintering
The new Italian leader is still pro-NATO, but the broader right is divided.
Sep 30, 2022 / Jeet Heer
Keir Starmer Might Win Power—but Can He Do Anything With It? Keir Starmer Might Win Power—but Can He Do Anything With It?
The British Labour Party leader is sounding more like a prime minister, but will he be up for the hard fights ahead?
Sep 29, 2022 / Bhaskar Sunkara
We Like the Idea of Asylum Seekers, but Not the Real Thing We Like the Idea of Asylum Seekers, but Not the Real Thing
The 12-foot-tall puppet of a Syrian refugee has been welcomed in New York and around the world. Real refugees? Not so much.
Sep 28, 2022 / Helen Benedict
The War in Ukraine Is at a Decisive Turning Point The War in Ukraine Is at a Decisive Turning Point
Can nuclear escalation be averted?
Sep 27, 2022 / Michael T. Klare
How American Exceptionalism Fueled Global Authoritarian Nationalism How American Exceptionalism Fueled Global Authoritarian Nationalism
Even as the West unites against the Russia that Putin built, it finds itself fighting homegrown variants of authoritarian exceptionalism, from Trump to Orbán.
Sep 23, 2022 / John Feffer
Reining In the War Economy Reining In the War Economy
It’s time to end the Pentagon’s stranglehold on our national budget.
Sep 20, 2022 / William D. Hartung
The Russian Military’s Ineptitude Almost Rivals Our Own The Russian Military’s Ineptitude Almost Rivals Our Own
Putin’s plunge into Ukraine confirms that he learned nothing from the folly of post-9/11 US military policy.
Sep 16, 2022 / Andrew J. Bacevich
The Digital Soldiers Taking America’s Forever Wars Online The Digital Soldiers Taking America’s Forever Wars Online
In this online battles pace, victory is fleeting and defeat never final, but the casualties are all too real—of fact and truth, memory and reality.
Sep 14, 2022 / Andy Kroll
The Mysteries of Adam Smith The Mysteries of Adam Smith
How to understand Adam Smith’s politics
Sep 3, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Glory Liu
Golf’s Sportswashing of Saudi Arabia Golf’s Sportswashing of Saudi Arabia
Not since the 1936 Berlin Olympics was used to cosmeticize Nazi Germany’s atrocities have sports and an otherwise despised government collaborated so blatantly.
Aug 25, 2022 / Robert Lipsyte