Against Intervention in Iraq Against Intervention in Iraq
American military involvement would inflame, not ease, Iraq’s sectarian divisions.
Jun 18, 2014 / Editorial / The Editors
Making Dissent a Mental Illness Making Dissent a Mental Illness
On Bowe Bergdahl and conscientious objection
Jun 18, 2014 / Editorial / Zoë Carpenter
The Beltway Media Gets the Iraq War Band Back Together The Beltway Media Gets the Iraq War Band Back Together
Reed on Iraq and the US establishment press.
Jun 18, 2014 / Blog / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson
How to Forgive Your Torturer How to Forgive Your Torturer
Eric Lomax was captured and tortured by the Japanese during World War II. Forty years later, he tracked down the man responsible.
Jun 17, 2014 / Ariel Dorfman
How to Fix the Iraq Crisis How to Fix the Iraq Crisis
Hint: not by bombing it.
Jun 17, 2014 / Blog / Bob Dreyfuss
How the ‘War on Terror’ Became a War on the Constitution How the ‘War on Terror’ Became a War on the Constitution
Since 9/11, power-hungry political leaders have eviscerated the First Amendment—and we’ve allowed them to do it.
Jun 16, 2014 / Peter Van Buren
Great War: The Climate of June 1914 Great War: The Climate of June 1914
The first modern war created the modern Nation.
Jun 16, 2014 / Back Issues / Richard Kreitner
How Fox News Created a Monster—and Made Two Others Disappear How Fox News Created a Monster—and Made Two Others Disappear
From Bergdahl to the Las Vegas cop killers, Fox and friends enter Orwell’s “Eastasia.”
Jun 16, 2014 / Blog / Leslie Savan
How Iraq’s Crisis Got Started, and How it Didn’t How Iraq’s Crisis Got Started, and How it Didn’t
Tens of thousands may die, but ending the war in Iraq is now in the hands of Iran and Saudi Arabia, not the United States.
Jun 13, 2014 / Blog / Bob Dreyfuss
Elections and Peace Talks Won’t Stem Colombia’s Violence Elections and Peace Talks Won’t Stem Colombia’s Violence
The presidential run-off this weekend and talks with the FARC are obscuring horrific violence in places like Buenaventura—and US multinationals are deeply implicated.
Jun 13, 2014 / Michael Norby and Brian Fitzpatrick