War and Peace

A Yemeni walks over the debris of a destroyed building after it was struck by US air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, March 24, 2025.

Bombing Yemen: Signalgate Deserves to Be a Major Scandal Bombing Yemen: Signalgate Deserves to Be a Major Scandal

But the assault on Yemeni civilians the hapless conspirators discussed in their private chat group is an even bigger disgrace—though so far the press haven’t paid much attention.

Mar 27, 2025 / Phyllis Bennis

Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, left, and John Ratcliffe, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, during a House Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, March 26, 2025.

Dumbest Fascist Timeline Ever Dumbest Fascist Timeline Ever

The gang that couldn’t text straight is now trying to convince us that doing wars over Signal is no big deal. You’d have to be as hapless as they are to believe that.

Mar 27, 2025 / Chris Lehmann

Yaseen Al Ghalban

What Israel's Genocide Did to One Boy What Israel's Genocide Did to One Boy

Yaseen Al Ghalban was an ordinary child living a happy life. Then the genocide changed everything.

Mar 27, 2025 / Eman Alhaj Ali

Civil defense and medical teams respond to an Israeli attack on the At-Tabeen School in Gaza City on March 18, 2025.

The World’s Top Medical Journal Is Giving Cover to Genocide The World’s Top Medical Journal Is Giving Cover to Genocide

The New England Journal of Medicine has finally broken its silence on Gaza, only to obscure the truth of an American-backed Israeli genocide unfolding in real time.

Mar 26, 2025 / Mary Turfah and Eric Reinhart

By Targeting Artists and Journalists, Israel Is Trying to Kill the Truth

By Targeting Artists and Journalists, Israel Is Trying to Kill the Truth By Targeting Artists and Journalists, Israel Is Trying to Kill the Truth

The recent targeting of Hamdan Ballal, Hossam Shabat, and Mohammed Mansour shows that Israel sees the truth as a threat to be eliminated.

Mar 25, 2025 / Dave Zirin

Four men in suits sit in the Oval Office.

Group Chat War Plans Provide a Window Into Trump’s Mafia State Group Chat War Plans Provide a Window Into Trump’s Mafia State

American foreign policy is now all about incompetent shakedowns and cover-ups.

Mar 25, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Despite the massive mobilization of Bernie Sanders’s two presidential campaigns, his supporters remain a junior partner in the Democratic Party power structure.

Time for a Progressive Rethink Time for a Progressive Rethink

Anger at the Democratic Party’s inept leadership and subservience to Big Money has been rising since the election. But the left also must examine our own role in enabling Trump.

Mar 24, 2025 / Jeff Faux

Dodger Jackie Robinson stealing home in a Cubs game on May 1, 1952.

Brooklyn Dodger 1, Draft Dodger 0 Brooklyn Dodger 1, Draft Dodger 0

Donald Trump picked on the wrong athlete. Even though Jackie Robinson died in 1972, last week he bested Trump in a contest about the role of racism and the civil rights movement.

Mar 24, 2025 / Peter Dreier

JKF riding in a car through a parade.

JFK Assassination: The Final Secrets JFK Assassination: The Final Secrets

The release of the John F. Kennedy papers sets a standard for transparency that must also be applied to the current administration.

Mar 21, 2025 / Peter Kornbluh

A woman cries while sitting on the rubble of her house, destroyed in an Israeli strike, in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on March 18, 2025.

Israel’s Renewed Assault on Gaza Is a Prelude to Mass Expulsion Israel’s Renewed Assault on Gaza Is a Prelude to Mass Expulsion

With Trump’s green light for ethnic cleansing, Israel’s return to war threatens to become an all-out effort to empty the enclave of Palestinians.

Mar 21, 2025 / Ben Reiff

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