Progressives Have a Foreign Policy, and It’s the Antidote to Rising Global Authoritarianism Progressives Have a Foreign Policy, and It’s the Antidote to Rising Global Authoritarianism
Only by creating an intersectional movement for change at home and abroad can we fight like hell for the solutions we all know are necessary.
Nov 27, 2018 / Kate Kizer and Stephen Miles
Exclusive: The Pentagon’s Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed Exclusive: The Pentagon’s Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed
How US military spending keeps rising even as the Pentagon flunks its audit.
Nov 27, 2018 / Feature / Dave Lindorff
America’s Post-9/11 Wars Have Cost $5.9 Trillion America’s Post-9/11 Wars Have Cost $5.9 Trillion
Not to mention 240,000 civilian deaths and 21 million displaced. And yet a congressional commission is urging yet more money for a bloated Pentagon.
Nov 21, 2018 / William D. Hartung
The United States Is Militarizing the Globe The United States Is Militarizing the Globe
Still trapped in a greater Middle Eastern quagmire, the US military prepares for worldwide combat.
Nov 21, 2018 / Danny Sjursen
Russian Diplomacy Is Winning the New Cold War Russian Diplomacy Is Winning the New Cold War
Washington’s attempt to “isolate Putin’s Russia” has failed and had the opposite effect.
Nov 21, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen
How the ‘Natural Family’ Movement Brought Its War of Values to the Balkans How the ‘Natural Family’ Movement Brought Its War of Values to the Balkans
Populist leaders with an increasingly autocratic bent are finding that it pays to jump on this ultraconservative bandwagon.
Nov 21, 2018 / Claudia Ciobanu
Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Cold War Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Cold War
A new biography of Jimmy Carter’s national-security adviser attempts to place him among the pantheon of master foreign-policy strategists, but was he?
Nov 21, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Andrew J. Bacevich
A Leftist Foreign Policy Should Reject Economic Sanctions A Leftist Foreign Policy Should Reject Economic Sanctions
The United States should use its financial powers to bust oligarchs, end tax evasion, and create a fairer world economy.
Nov 20, 2018 / Nicholas Mulder
With Help From Trump, Nationalism Could Shatter Europe With Help From Trump, Nationalism Could Shatter Europe
Practically the only allies the president hasn’t alienated are extremists from Europe’s far right.
Nov 19, 2018 / Rajan Menon
As Toxic Smoke Blankets California, Who Has the Ability to Escape? As Toxic Smoke Blankets California, Who Has the Ability to Escape?
While the wealthy can flee toward cleaner air, the poorest have no choice but to stay put.
Nov 17, 2018 / Gabriel Thompson