Trump Wants to Treat Undocumented Migrants Like Enemy Combatants Trump Wants to Treat Undocumented Migrants Like Enemy Combatants
But US soldiers who commit war crimes? They’re “deserving individuals” who deserve “second chances.”
Nov 19, 2019 / Sasha Abramsky
Secret US Intelligence Files Provide History’s Verdict on Argentina’s Dirty War Secret US Intelligence Files Provide History’s Verdict on Argentina’s Dirty War
Recently declassified documents constitute a gruesome and sadistic catalog of state terrorism.
Nov 18, 2019 / Feature / Peter Kornbluh
Why Are We in Ukraine? Why Are We in Ukraine?
Historically and even today, Russia has much in common with Ukraine—the United States, almost nothing.
Nov 14, 2019 / Stephen F. Cohen
From the Hope of 1989 to a New Cold War From the Hope of 1989 to a New Cold War
Thirty years after the Berlin Wall’s collapse, alternatives do exist to the deep divisions in Europe.
Nov 12, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
David Maraniss’s Tale of Hope and Misfortune in Postwar America David Maraniss’s Tale of Hope and Misfortune in Postwar America
In A Good American Family, the journalist and editor examines his father and mother’s youthful idealism and the bitter years of McCarthyism that followed.
Nov 12, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Andrew J. Bacevich
‘Bad Paper’ Discharges Brand Veterans for Life ‘Bad Paper’ Discharges Brand Veterans for Life
Discharges for minor offenses, including symptoms of service-related injuries like PTSD and traumatic brain injuries, is a national disgrace.
Nov 11, 2019 / Tyson Manker
I’m Watching My Students Become Soldiers in Our Endless Wars I’m Watching My Students Become Soldiers in Our Endless Wars
At West Point, Graduation Day felt more like a tragedy than a triumph.
Nov 8, 2019 / Danny Sjursen
I Was 10 When the Battle of Fallujah Taught Me the Meaning of War I Was 10 When the Battle of Fallujah Taught Me the Meaning of War
Fifteen years later, the Second Battle of Fallujah and the war that tore my country apart looms large in my memory.
Nov 7, 2019 / Ali Nayyef
South Koreans Are Pleading for a Breakthrough in the US–North Korea Talks South Koreans Are Pleading for a Breakthrough in the US–North Korea Talks
“We are on the cusp of a dangerous time,” a peace delegation declared at the UN.
Nov 7, 2019 / Tim Shorrock
Inconvenient Truths Inconvenient Truths
Alarming things we have learned under Trump, but not always about him.
Nov 6, 2019 / Stephen F. Cohen