Dangerous Brinkmanship Over Taiwan Dangerous Brinkmanship Over Taiwan
How to avoid US-Chinese military conflict in the Western Pacific.
Oct 27, 2021 / Michael T. Klare
Climate Change Has Exposed the Decline of the American Empire Climate Change Has Exposed the Decline of the American Empire
Responding to the climate crisis has become a race against time, and our government still dawdles at the starting line.
Oct 26, 2021 / William deBuys
Imran Khan Faces a Standoff With the Pakistani Military Imran Khan Faces a Standoff With the Pakistani Military
The prime minister has refused to sign off on the appointment of the military’s favored candidate for leadership of the country's top intelligence agency.
Oct 21, 2021 / Hasan Ali
Meet Representative Elaine Luria, Chowderhead Meet Representative Elaine Luria, Chowderhead
The Virginia Democrat wants Congress to give the president the authority to go to war with China. Because the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was such a shining success.
Oct 14, 2021 / Column / Andrew J. Bacevich
How “Terror Capitalism” Links Uyghur Oppression to the Global Economy How “Terror Capitalism” Links Uyghur Oppression to the Global Economy
The camps in Xinjiang and undocumented work in the US are part of the same continuum of unfreedom.
Oct 12, 2021 / Darren Byler
Anthony Veasna So’s Portraits of Diaspora Anthony Veasna So’s Portraits of Diaspora
His posthumous collection Afterparties is part of a new wave of writing on the cultural memory and historical traumas of Southeast Asian immigrants.
Oct 5, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Larissa Pham
Grace Cho’s Memoir of Food and Empire Grace Cho’s Memoir of Food and Empire
Intertwining a personal story of Korean food ways and a family history caught in the midst of violence, Tastes Like War tests the limits, and shows the power, of memoir.
Oct 4, 2021 / Books & the Arts / E. Tammy Kim
Our Foreign Policy Elite Has Learned Nothing From Afghanistan Our Foreign Policy Elite Has Learned Nothing From Afghanistan
The War on Terror’s promoters and apologists are determined to blame Biden for finally bringing one bloody chapter to an end.
Oct 4, 2021 / Column / David Bromwich
China Is Dismantling Hong Kong’s Unions China Is Dismantling Hong Kong’s Unions
Empowered workers would be a threat to the Chinese Communist Party.
Sep 22, 2021 / Maya Wang
The War on Terror: 20 Years of Bloodshed and Delusion The War on Terror: 20 Years of Bloodshed and Delusion
From the beginning, the War on Terror merged red-hot vengeance with calculated opportunism. Millions are still paying the price.