Arms Spending

US President Joe Biden

America Can Afford Biden’s Investments at Home. Look at How Much It Spent on Wars. America Can Afford Biden’s Investments at Home. Look at How Much It Spent on Wars.

It is not enough—but it’s a start.

Aug 31, 2021 / no-paywall / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Australia Fires

The Real Existential Threat Is Our Overheating Planet The Real Existential Threat Is Our Overheating Planet

By 2049, China will be too busy dealing with climate disasters to launch a war with the United States.

Aug 26, 2021 / Michael T. Klare

Afghan Escalation

Great Power Politics After Afghanistan Great Power Politics After Afghanistan

Resetting the global chessboard.

Aug 24, 2021 / Michael T. Klare

Representative Mark Pocan

Cut Military Spending to Deliver Covid Vaccines to the World Cut Military Spending to Deliver Covid Vaccines to the World

The US cannot police the globe and should reject isolationist anti-refugee stances. Representative Mark Pocan proposes another path for American foreign policy.

Aug 20, 2021 / John Nichols

US Marines in Afghanistan

Rather Than Focus on How the US Got Out of Afghanistan, Focus on How It Got In Rather Than Focus on How the US Got Out of Afghanistan, Focus on How It Got In

There should be a serious accounting for the Afghanistan debacle.

Aug 17, 2021 / no-paywall / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Those Who Ran the Afghanistan War Lied. They Must Be Held to Account.

Those Who Ran the Afghanistan War Lied. They Must Be Held to Account. Those Who Ran the Afghanistan War Lied. They Must Be Held to Account.

The grotesque costs of lying about the war have grown too large to bear.

Aug 16, 2021 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Taliban Afghanistan

Kabul Has Fallen. Now What? Kabul Has Fallen. Now What?

With the collapse of the US-backed government, Washington must chart a new course—but it won’t be easy.

Aug 16, 2021 / Editorial / Rajan Menon

We Need to Scale Back America’s War Machine

We Need to Scale Back America’s War Machine We Need to Scale Back America’s War Machine

Sixty years after Eisenhower warned the nation against the threat of the military-industrial complex, America continues to maintain a bloated, imperialistic military presence at ho...

Jul 30, 2021 / William Astore

Anti-war protest

The True American Patriots Are the Anti-Imperialists The True American Patriots Are the Anti-Imperialists

Two hundred years ago this week, our wisest secretary of state warned Americans against a career of empire.

Jul 2, 2021 / John Nichols

Evil Donald Rumsfeld

War Criminal Found Dead at 88 War Criminal Found Dead at 88

The human and economic costs of Donald Rumsfeld’s wars are staggering.

Jul 1, 2021 / Phyllis Bennis

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