What Is the Deep State? What Is the Deep State?
Even if we assume the concept is valid, surely it’s not useful to think of the competing interests it represents as monolithic.
Feb 17, 2017 / Greg Grandin
A People’s Globalism: Notes Toward a New Left Internationalism A People’s Globalism: Notes Toward a New Left Internationalism
Three writers consider the major foreign-policy questions facing the left today.
Feb 16, 2017 / Michael Walzer, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, and Jedediah Britton-Purdy
Kremlin-Baiting President Trump (Without Facts) Must Stop Kremlin-Baiting President Trump (Without Facts) Must Stop
Bipartisan allegations that Trump is a “puppet” of or “compromised” by the Kremlin have grown into latter-day McCarthyism with grave threats to America and the world.
Feb 15, 2017 / Stephen F. Cohen
If Trump Wants to Defeat ISIS, He’d Better Stop Alienating Muslims If Trump Wants to Defeat ISIS, He’d Better Stop Alienating Muslims
From the Salafi Muslims who beat the terrorists in Libya to the Shiite militias of Iraq, they are crucial allies in this fight.
Feb 15, 2017 / Juan Cole
Nuclear Weapons Don’t Belong in Anyone’s Hands Nuclear Weapons Don’t Belong in Anyone’s Hands
Donald Trump shouldn’t have his finger on the button—but neither should anyone else.
Feb 15, 2017 / Tim Wright
Saul Friedländer’s Many Lives Saul Friedländer’s Many Lives
What is the relationship between the Holocaust’s history and its memory?
Feb 15, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Peter E. Gordon
What Did President Trump Know and When Did He Know It? What Did President Trump Know and When Did He Know It?
Michael Flynn is out, but until there’s an investigation by Congress, we’re at the mercy of intelligence leaks for the story.
Feb 14, 2017 / Joan Walsh
Ecuador’s Left-Wing Success Story Ecuador’s Left-Wing Success Story
It doesn’t fit with neoliberal orthodoxy, but President Rafael Correa has made remarkable progress. Will the next government sustain it?
Feb 14, 2017 / Mark Weisbrot
Conservative Media Embrace a Bogus ‘Terror Study’ to Justify Trump’s Travel Ban Conservative Media Embrace a Bogus ‘Terror Study’ to Justify Trump’s Travel Ban
An honest reading of their data reveals just how pointless the policy really is.
Feb 14, 2017 / Joshua Holland
China First, Russia Second, America Third: Trump’s Real Foreign Policy China First, Russia Second, America Third: Trump’s Real Foreign Policy
Despite all his talk, the president isn’t prioritizing American interests.
Feb 14, 2017 / Michael T. Klare