What Should the Left Do About China? What Should the Left Do About China?
Progressive thinkers are developing a foreign policy approach that opposes military confrontation while acknowledging Beijing’s oppressive policies.
Jan 11, 2022 / Feature / David Klion
Getting Away With Murder Wasn’t Enough for Tony Blair Getting Away With Murder Wasn’t Enough for Tony Blair
Now the British salesman for the Iraq War has been made a knight.
Jan 7, 2022 / Hasan Ali
2 Decades of Military Force Got Us Nowhere 2 Decades of Military Force Got Us Nowhere
Twenty years of war, around $6 trillion, and nearly 1 million corpses later, there are now more terrorist groups than in 2001.
Jan 5, 2022 / Nick Turse
What a Sensible Ukraine Policy Would Look Like What a Sensible Ukraine Policy Would Look Like
Despite all the bellicose blather, the real security interests of Americans are clear. Ukraine is not among them.
Jan 4, 2022 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Happy New Year, It’s Sure Been Weird Happy New Year, It’s Sure Been Weird
I wouldn’t even try to sum up this bizarre year of ours.
Dec 31, 2021 / Tom Engelhardt
Remembering the Real Desmond Tutu, 1931–2021 Remembering the Real Desmond Tutu, 1931–2021
Celebrated in death by his former foes, Archbishop Tutu had the gift not just of courage and righteousness but also of timing.
Dec 31, 2021 / Mark Gevisser
For Afghanistan, 2021 Brought an End to One Horror—and the Beginning of Another For Afghanistan, 2021 Brought an End to One Horror—and the Beginning of Another
Since the West abandoned Afghanistan, the violence of the occupation has ended but hunger and the cruelties of the Taliban have taken its place.
Dec 29, 2021 / Ali M. Latifi
The US Military Is Bulldozing Sacred Indigenous Sites on Guam The US Military Is Bulldozing Sacred Indigenous Sites on Guam
Indigenous residents are fighting to save their island’s heritage, while the military refuses to release key information about what it is razing.
Dec 22, 2021 / Chris Gelardi
Life Circa 2050 Will Be Bad. Really Bad. Life Circa 2050 Will Be Bad. Really Bad.
Future widespread suffering won’t be caused by some unforeseen disaster but by all-too-obvious, painfully predictable reasons.
Dec 20, 2021 / Alfred McCoy