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Americans Are Sick of Endless War

With years of foreign-policy failures, why has so little changed?

Stephen Miles

Will the Foreign-Policy Establishment Learn From Trump’s Election Victory?

The elites have reinforced a global order in which the “winners” are protected and the “losers” are ignored.

Robert L. Borosage

Nuclear Weapons Pose the Ultimate Threat to Mankind

A growing number of movements are dedicated to making sure they’re banned.

Betsy Taylor

China’s Bigger Economic Threat

Would the US be better off helping stabilize the Chinese economy, rather than gearing up for a trade war?

Walden Bello

A World for All of Us, Not Just the Billionaires

To fight today’s extreme inequality, we must strengthen the coalition of progressive democrats and challenge the global oligarchy.

Sen. Bernie Sanders

Snapshots of Our Bloated Military Budget

The Pentagon has seriously misplaced priorities.

Lindsay Koshgarian

Extreme Inequality Creates Global Disorder

And it’s a problem that can only have a political solution.

James K. Galbraith

It’s Time for the United States to Adopt a New Humanitarian Grand Strategy

Rather than continue along our current path of retreat, the country must dedicate itself to responding to—and preventing—global crises.

Madeline Rose

No More Blank Checks for War

With Trump in the White House, Congress must reassert its role in governing the use of military force.

Rep. Barbara Lee

Climate Change Is Our Most Critical National-Security Challenge

To face it, Washington needs to end the subsidies that enrich the hydrocarbon industry.

Bill McKibben

How to Challenge the Elite Consensus for Endless War

There’s only one way: ​We have to harness the energy of millions of fed-up voters.

Andrew J. Bacevich

Why We Need a Wider Foreign-Policy Debate

The establishment consensus has failed. Citizen intervention can change that.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Congress Must Act to Stop US Involvement in the Yemen War

By partnering with conservatives to rein in presidential overreach, progressive advocates for peace are laying the groundwork for a sea change in US foreign policy.

Rep. Ro Khanna

Books & the Arts

What Will the State Look Like in an Era of Ecological Disaster?

Hobbes for an age of accelerated climate change.

Alyssa Battistoni

How Did Vietnam Transform White Supremacy?

Kathleen Belew’s sobering new history tracks the hidden relationship between the war and a resurgence in racial violence.

Patrick Blanchfield

The Presence and Absence of Basquiat

You’d have to go back to Bloomsbury to find another set as insular, self-promoting, self-destructive, imitated, parodied, publicized, and at last mythologized as the crowd that hun… Read More

Stuart Klawans