US Wars and Military Action

President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House on May 27, 2026.

Trump’s Disregard for International Humanitarian Law Won’t End When the Iran War Does Trump’s Disregard for International Humanitarian Law Won’t End When the Iran War Does

As political pressure to end the war grows, Americans must not overlook the president’s blatant violations of the rule of law, abroad and at home.

Jun 5, 2026 / Michele Goodwin and Eric A. Friedman

Motorists drive past a political billboard featuring US President Donald Trump and the Strait of Hormuz at Valiasr Square in Tehran, Iran, on May 26, 2026.

Trump’s Fickle Iran Policy Trump’s Fickle Iran Policy

He is now a rudderless potentate.

Jun 1, 2026 / Michael T. Klare

US President Donald Trump holds an umbrella as he boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, on May 22, 2026.

Trump’s Violent Threats Can't Hide the Truth: He’s a Humiliated Bully Trump’s Violent Threats Can't Hide the Truth: He’s a Humiliated Bully

Under Trump, the United States is looking for weaker and weaker victims in order to mask its own fragility.

May 29, 2026 / Jeet Heer

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) speaks in front of a memorial composed of shoes and backpacks, symbolizing those killed in the bombing of the Minab elementary school and other civilians in Iran, in Washington, DC, on March 18, 2026.

Democrats Can’t Avoid a Reckoning With Gaza Democrats Can’t Avoid a Reckoning With Gaza

We can’t defend democracy while upholding elite impunity

May 28, 2026 / Matthew Duss

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at a podium during a news conference.

Why Does Pete Hegseth Have to Make His Desperate Need for Masculine Validation Our Problem? Why Does Pete Hegseth Have to Make His Desperate Need for Masculine Validation Our Problem?

America has been burdened with the unresolved issues of a man driven by his poorly disguised sense of embarrassment and emasculation by the utter failures of the wars he fought in...

May 27, 2026 / Jasper Craven

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, left, hold signed documents during an Abraham Accords signing ceremony event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, September 15, 2020.

Trump’s Abraham Accords Fantasy Will Only Cause More Suffering Trump’s Abraham Accords Fantasy Will Only Cause More Suffering

Any expansion of the alleged peace agreement would lock the Middle East into endless apartheid, despotism, and militarism.

May 26, 2026 / Jeet Heer

Children play on American military helicopter wreckage in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Trump’s Killing Spree in Somalia Is Just One Assault in His Global War-Making Trump’s Killing Spree in Somalia Is Just One Assault in His Global War-Making

No American president has ever attacked Somalis with the persistence and at the rate of President Donald Trump.

May 21, 2026 / Nick Turse

The ConocoPhillips Oil Refinery is seen in Wilmington, California, on April 11, 2026.

The Oil Era Is Ending The Oil Era Is Ending

Is the Iran war a death knell for America’s oil hegemony?

May 21, 2026 / Mark Hertsgaard

“Why Did So Many People Think This War Was a Good Idea?”

“Why Did So Many People Think This War Was a Good Idea?” “Why Did So Many People Think This War Was a Good Idea?”

The story of how millions of Iranians fell for the regime-change fantasy.

May 21, 2026 / Feature / Alex Shams

Swearing-in ceremony for the US Army’s Detachment 201—the so-called Army Executive Innovation Corps—with lieutenant colonels from four tech companies, including Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer (CTO) for Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, CTO for Meta; Kevin Weil, chief product officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, adviser at Thinking Machines Lab and former chief research officer for OpenAI, on June 13, 2025.

How Silicon Valley and Private Finance Are Reshaping War How Silicon Valley and Private Finance Are Reshaping War

Revealing the dangerous alliance of techno-fascists with finance capital and the military-industrial complex.

May 20, 2026 / Shana Marshall

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