Defund the Police. And the Military, Too. Defund the Police. And the Military, Too.
In 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. emphasized the need to overcome “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism.” The same holds true today.
Jun 24, 2020 / Andrew J. Bacevich
Why Is GOP Money Going to Democratic Congressman Eliot Engel? Why Is GOP Money Going to Democratic Congressman Eliot Engel?
On foreign policy, the 16-term incumbent aligns with the Republicans.
Jun 23, 2020 / Ken Klippenstein
The US Military Also Has a Racism Problem The US Military Also Has a Racism Problem
Jun 23, 2020 / Andrea Mazzarino
Bubba Wallace, NASCAR’s Only Black Driver, Is Threatened With a Noose Bubba Wallace, NASCAR’s Only Black Driver, Is Threatened With a Noose
This is not a prank and it’s not a game. NASCAR needs to be prepared to defend Wallace from violence.
Jun 22, 2020 / Dave Zirin
The End of the American Century The End of the American Century
Jun 19, 2020 / Tom Engelhardt
Who Really Was Roy Cohn? Who Really Was Roy Cohn?
We talked to Ivy Meeropol about her new documentary on the man who helped send her grandparents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, to the electric chair.
Jun 18, 2020 / Q&A / Elena Goukassian
America’s New Uighur Law Is a World First. What Took So Long? America’s New Uighur Law Is a World First. What Took So Long?
The legislation targets China’s human rights abuses, which Trump allegedly encouraged President Xi to continue.
Jun 17, 2020 / Andrew McCormick
The US Government Kills Black People with Impunity Both at Home and Abroad The US Government Kills Black People with Impunity Both at Home and Abroad
It’s time to reckon with the anti-black brutality that defines American policy from Minneapolis to Somalia.
Jun 16, 2020 / Robtel Neajai Pailey and Amy Niang
Protests Force the US Military to Face Its Own Racism Protests Force the US Military to Face Its Own Racism
The crisis provoked by George Floyd’s death endangers Pentagon efforts to rally Western nations against the supposedly more autocratic regimes in China and Russia.
Jun 10, 2020 / Michael T. Klare
Jamaal Bowman Wants to Spend Less on the Pentagon and More on the Bronx Jamaal Bowman Wants to Spend Less on the Pentagon and More on the Bronx
In his Democratic primary challenge to the House Foreign Affairs Committee chair, a New York educator outlines “a progressive foreign policy.”
Jun 9, 2020 / John Nichols