Precedent Ford Precedent Ford
In the Algerian “rescue,” blundering, botched unilateralism. In 1975, America showed them the way.
Jan 20, 2013 / Blog / Rick Perlstein
The Antiwar Case for Chuck Hagel The Antiwar Case for Chuck Hagel
Chuck Hagel is no leftist. But he has stood up to AIPAC, the defense industry and the neocons.
Jan 16, 2013 / Feature / Phyllis Bennis
America’s New Cold War With Russia America’s New Cold War With Russia
Obama, Congress and the media continue their dangerous, one-dimensional approach.
Jan 16, 2013 / Editorial / Stephen F. Cohen
Nine Years in One Day: On Haiti Nine Years in One Day: On Haiti
The tension between the personal and the political permeates new books on Haiti by Amy Wilentz and Jonathan M. Katz.
Jan 16, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Madison Smartt Bell
Melissa Harris-Perry: Who Is to Blame for Haiti’s Ongoing Crisis? Melissa Harris-Perry: Who Is to Blame for Haiti’s Ongoing Crisis?
NGOs and foreign governments are preventing Haitians from repairing their broken country.
Jan 14, 2013 / Blog / Melissa Harris-Perry
The Pentagon: A Global NRA The Pentagon: A Global NRA
The Pentagon is intent on pursuing its own global version of the Second Amendment.
Jan 14, 2013 / Tom Engelhardt
The Wrong Torture Debate The Wrong Torture Debate
Zero Dark Thirty has us arguing over whether torture works, not whether it should be banned.
Jan 11, 2013 / Peter Weiss
How About Gun Control for the Pentagon? How About Gun Control for the Pentagon?
For all the droning on about US gun violence, it would be good to hear someone drone on just a bit about US drones.
Jan 11, 2013 / Blog / Laura Flanders
How ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Brought Back the Bush Administration How ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Brought Back the Bush Administration
The film is a seven-pronged attempt to making US torture and detention policies once again palatable.
Jan 10, 2013 / Karen J. Greenberg
No Man Is an Island: Fiction, Trauma, War No Man Is an Island: Fiction, Trauma, War
How Argentine fiction about the Malvinas War conspires in a trick of perspective.
Jan 9, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Blitzer