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Conservatives Are Gearing Up for a Major Military Expansion Under Trump 2.0

Conservatives Are Gearing Up for a Major Military Expansion Under Trump 2.0 Conservatives Are Gearing Up for a Major Military Expansion Under Trump 2.0

If Project 2025 gets its way, a second Trump term will funnel more money to the Pentagon, dwarfing even the Biden administration’s spending.

Jun 5, 2024 / Feature / William D. Hartung

Philip Glass, performing a composition from “Notes on a Scandal.”

Philip Glass, Solo Artist Philip Glass, Solo Artist

In his most recent album, the composer marks a new turn in his style.

Jun 5, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Bijan Stephen

Palestinians in a destroyed residential area try to collect usable items under the rubble.

It’s Never Been About Freeing the Hostages It’s Never Been About Freeing the Hostages

Israel’s scorched-earth campaign will cruelly shape the lives of many future generations of Palestinians—and that’s the point.

Jun 5, 2024 / Joshua Frank

The Planet Could Bear the Scars of a Second Trump Term... Forever

The Planet Could Bear the Scars of a Second Trump Term... Forever The Planet Could Bear the Scars of a Second Trump Term... Forever

With help from Project 2025, Trump will stall all attempts to avert the climate crisis, accelerating a catastrophe that we have only a few years to prevent.

Jun 5, 2024 / Feature / Bill McKibben

Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2017. Project 2025 commits the US to a state of permanent belligerence toward China.

A New Chinese Exclusion Act A New Chinese Exclusion Act

Demonizing China allows Republicans to unite around an authoritarian agenda at home—and provides a convenient rationale for unfettered Pentagon profiteering.

Jun 5, 2024 / Feature / Jake Werner

Donald Trump lifting his fist in front of a crowd.

Is Donald Trump Really a Male Icon? I Hope to God Not. Is Donald Trump Really a Male Icon? I Hope to God Not.

I hate gender stereotyping. But I’m a boomer, and the fake-tanned, fake-haired coward is the opposite of a manly man from our generation.

Jun 4, 2024 / Joan Walsh

Jacob Zuma, the leader of the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party, reacts to a question at the National Result Operation Centre (ROC) at Gallagher Estate on June 1, 2024, in Midrand, South Africa.

Who Will Govern South Africa? Who Will Govern South Africa?

The era of ANC hegemony is over, and Jacob Zuma’s new party is threatening violence if he’s not welcomed into the government.

Jun 4, 2024 / Benjamin Fogel

America(’s) First: GOP Picks the Felon

America(’s) First: GOP Picks the Felon America(’s) First: GOP Picks the Felon

Their conviction that Trump’s their man.

Jun 4, 2024 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

US President Ronald Reagan (C) addresses a Heritage Foundation fete with foundation President Edwin J. Feulner Jr. (L).

The Mandate for Leadership, Then and Now The Mandate for Leadership, Then and Now

The Heritage Foundation’s 1980 manual aimed to roll back the state and unleash the free market. The 2025 vision is more extreme, and even more dangerous.

Jun 4, 2024 / Feature / Kim Phillips-Fein

A protester holds a sign at a vigil outside the United States Mission to the United Nations in New York City on November 30, 2023, calling on the US to be the first nuclear-armed state to sign the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty.

A Just-Released Watchdog Report Makes the Case for Eliminating Land-Based Nuclear Missiles A Just-Released Watchdog Report Makes the Case for Eliminating Land-Based Nuclear Missiles

Land-based missiles are redundant and dangerous.

Jun 4, 2024 / William D. Hartung

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