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Preventing a nuclear war between the United States and North Korea may be the most pressing challenge facing the world right now...
When the historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., published his bestseller The Disuniting of America in 1991, he didn’t seriously entertain the worst-case scenario suggested by the title...
In George W. Bush’s home state of Texas, if you are an ordinary citizen found guilty of capital murder, the mandatory sentence is either life in prison or the death penalty...
Millions of football fans must have felt grateful to President Trump for provoking the entire National Football League into a goal line stand last month...
It took 14 years, but now we have an answer...
Eight years ago, when I wrote a book on the first days of Guantanamo, The Least Worst Place: Guantánamo’s First 100 Days, I assumed that Gitmo would prove a grim anomaly in our history...
“This... thing, [the War on Drugs] this ain't police work... I mean, you call something a war and pretty soon everybody gonna be running around acting like warriors...
Here’s a question for you: How do you spell boondoggle?
Consider, if you will, these two indisputable facts. First, the United States is today more or less permanently engaged in hostilities in not one faraway place, but at least seven. Second, the vast majority of the American people could not care less.
We were already roaring down the road when the young man called to me over his shoulder...
Noam Chomsky: There is a diversionary process under way, perhaps just a natural result of the propensities of the figure at center stage and those doing the work behind the curtains...
Back in 1992, a certain New York real estate mogul told a reporter from New Yorkmagazine that you have to treat women “like shit”...
For the past 50 years, American leaders have been supremely confident that they could suffer military setbacks in places like Cuba or Vietnam without having their system of global hegemony, backed by the world’s wealthiest economy and finest military, affected...
During the 2016 election campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly emphasized that our country was run terribly and needed a businessman at its helm...
It’s January 2025, and within days of entering the Oval Office, a new president already faces his first full-scale crisis abroad...
Here we go again! Years after most Americans forgot about the longest war this country ever fought, American soldiers are again being deployed to Afghanistan...
Deployed to the Houston area to assist in Hurricane Harvey relief efforts, U.S. military forces hadn’t even completed their assignments when they were hurriedly dispatched to Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to face Irma, the fiercest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic...
The organizers of the white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville last month knew just what they were doing when they decided to carry torches on their nocturnal march to protest the dethroning of a statue of Robert E. Lee...
When it comes to the “world’s greatest military,” the news has been shocking...
Not quite a century ago, on January 7, 1929, newspaper readers across America were captivated by a brand-new comic strip, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century...
It was bloody and brutal, a true generational struggle, but give them credit...
In the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Washington pursued its elusive enemies across the landscapes of Asia and Africa, thanks in part to a massive expansion of its intelligence infrastructure, particularly of the emerging technologies for digital surveillance, agile drones, and biometric...
The United States has beaten its head against the wall of North Korea for more than 70 years, and that wall has changed little indeed as a result...
Let me try to get this straight: from the moment the Soviet Union imploded in 1991 until recently just about every politician and mainstream pundit in America assured us that we were the planet’s indispensable nation, the only truly exceptional one on this small orb of ours...
...Since September 11, 2001, the United States has been fighting a “war on terror...”
Winning! It’s the White House watchword when it comes to the U.S. armed forces...
Like it or not, the president of the United States embodies America itself...
While waiting for Trump to jump the tracks, let’s savor the day when his inevitable train wreck first passed through a critical safety switch...
You may have noticed that quite a few of the formerly united states of America have been choosing to go their own way...
Who says President Trump doesn’t have a coherent foreign policy...
It was midday on Sunday, May 7th, when the U.S.-led coalition warplanes again began bombing the neighborhood of Wassim Abdo’s family...
You wouldn’t know it, based on the endless cries for more money coming from the military, politicians, and the president, but these are the best of times for the Pentagon...
You remember. It was supposed to be twenty-first-century war, American-style: precise beyond imagining; smart bombs; drones capable of taking out a carefully identified and tracked human being just about anywhere on Earth; special operations raids so pinpoint-accurate that they would represent a...
Once upon a time, long, long ago, I testified before the great assembly of our land...
The superhighway to disaster is already being paved...
Has there ever been a nation as dedicated to preparing for doomsday as the United States?
In the wake of Donald Trump’s inauguration, George Orwell’s 1984 soared onto bestseller lists, as did Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, which also hit TV screens in a storm of publicity...
I don’t tweet, but I do have a brief message for our president: Will you please get the hell out of the way for a few minutes?
The Middle East. Could there be a more perilous place on Earth, including North Korea? Not likely...
The headlines arrive in my inbox day after day: “U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria killed hundreds of civilians, U.N. panel says...
The tabs on their shoulders read “Special Forces,” “Ranger,” “Airborne...”
Forgive me for complaining, but recent decades have not been easy ones for my peeps...
At this point, it’s no great surprise when Donald Trump walks away from past statements in service to some impulse of the moment...
It’s the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love...
In its own inside-out, upside-down way, it’s almost wondrous to behold...
That Donald Trump is a grand disruptor when it comes to international affairs is now a commonplace observation in the establishment media...
Donald, listen, whatever you’ve done so far, whatever you’ve messed up, there’s one thing you could do that would make up for a lot...
