War and Peace

A federal agent stands outside of a building in San Diego, CA.

No, We Don’t Need a ‘War’ on Domestic Issues No, We Don’t Need a ‘War’ on Domestic Issues

Military rhetoric only serves to dehumanize public issues rather than to treat them.

Aug 15, 2017 / Rebecca Gordon

Tom Tomorrow Cartoon

Threat Level: Bright Orange Threat Level: Bright Orange

Forget North Korea and the KKK, it's the scary, scary immigrants that will bring us down.

Aug 15, 2017 / Tom Tomorrow

North Korea Missile

Nuclear Deterrence Will Fail Nuclear Deterrence Will Fail

Trump’s dangerous bluster reveals the flaw in nuclear-deterrence theory—human fallibility.

Aug 11, 2017 / Ward Wilson

Trump Korea Standoff

Is Trump Going to War in Korea? Is Trump Going to War in Korea?

His cowboy tirades, and the pundits’ bombastic rhetoric, are exceedingly reckless. History shows that negotiations with Pyongyang can work.

Aug 11, 2017 / Tim Shorrock

Representative John Conyers

Congress Is Pushing Back Against Trump’s Dangerously Ignorant Nuclear Threats Congress Is Pushing Back Against Trump’s Dangerously Ignorant Nuclear Threats

Members of Congress are telling the president he has no authority to launch a preemptive attack anywhere.

Aug 11, 2017 / John Nichols

Sedrine Tunisia

‘Why So Much Cruelty?’ ‘Why So Much Cruelty?’

Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission is unique in the Arab world. But is the country too small a place to tell the truth about human-rights abuses?

Aug 11, 2017 / Ursula Lindsey

Turkish Journalists Trial

Turkey’s Great Terror Turkey’s Great Terror

Recep Erdogan has turned his country into a gulag state, branding millions of citizens as terrorists.

Aug 11, 2017 / Juan Cole

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The Pentagon Has a Small Coup Problem The Pentagon Has a Small Coup Problem

The Department of Defense has trained more than a hundred foreign militaries that went on to stage coups in their home countries.

Aug 11, 2017 / Nick Turse

Pence in Georgia

Why Trump Is Beating the War Drum—and How It Could Lead to Disaster Why Trump Is Beating the War Drum—and How It Could Lead to Disaster

It’s sure to win favor among hawks of both parties, while distracting the media and public from his domestic woes—but foreign powers are not backing down.

Aug 10, 2017 / Michael T. Klare

Demonstrators walk amid tear gas fired by Bolivarian National Guards on the outskirts of Caracas, Venezuela on July 20, 2017.

Venezuela May Be on the Brink of Civil War Venezuela May Be on the Brink of Civil War

The international left should do everything in its power to prevent it; we must support a negotiated solution.

Aug 9, 2017 / Gabriel Hetland

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