Armed Conflicts

A Ukrainian soldier in the Kupiansk, a recaptured frontline city in the Kharkiv region.

The War in Ukraine Is at a Decisive Turning Point The War in Ukraine Is at a Decisive Turning Point

Can nuclear escalation be averted?

Sep 27, 2022 / Michael T. Klare

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin

How American Exceptionalism Fueled Global Authoritarian Nationalism How American Exceptionalism Fueled Global Authoritarian Nationalism

Even as the West unites against the Russia that Putin built, it finds itself fighting homegrown variants of authoritarian exceptionalism, from Trump to Orbán.

Sep 23, 2022 / John Feffer

The Pentagon in Washington

Reining In the War Economy Reining In the War Economy

It’s time to end the Pentagon’s stranglehold on our national budget. 

Sep 20, 2022 / William D. Hartung

anti-Putin placard

The Russian Military’s Ineptitude Almost Rivals Our Own The Russian Military’s Ineptitude Almost Rivals Our Own

Putin’s plunge into Ukraine confirms that he learned nothing from the folly of post-9/11 US military policy.

Sep 16, 2022 / Andrew J. Bacevich

Cyber Security

The Digital Soldiers Taking America’s Forever Wars Online The Digital Soldiers Taking America’s Forever Wars Online

In this online battles pace, victory is fleeting and defeat never final, but the casualties are all too real—of fact and truth, memory and reality.

Sep 14, 2022 / Andy Kroll

The Mysteries of Adam Smith

The Mysteries of Adam Smith The Mysteries of Adam Smith

How to understand Adam Smith’s politics

Sep 3, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Glory Liu

Golf’s Sportswashing of Saudi Arabia

Golf’s Sportswashing of Saudi Arabia Golf’s Sportswashing of Saudi Arabia

Not since the 1936 Berlin Olympics was used to cosmeticize Nazi Germany’s atrocities have sports and an otherwise despised government collaborated so blatantly.

Aug 25, 2022 / Robert Lipsyte

World War II veterans and military men pay their respect as they lay wreaths at the monument of the Soviet Army in central Sofia on May 9, 2008.

Balkan Dispatch: Bulgaria’s Crisis of Confidence Balkan Dispatch: Bulgaria’s Crisis of Confidence

Caught between a Russian past and a NATO future, the poorest country in the EU faces a political crisis—and a struggle over competing visions of national pride.

Aug 22, 2022 / Jeet Heer

Afghanistan Soldier Sunset

What the Military’s Recruitment Crisis Means for America What the Military’s Recruitment Crisis Means for America

The human frailties that hinder enlistment are symptoms of something more sinister than a military lacking bodies.

Aug 17, 2022 / Andrea Mazzarino

President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin

To Move Back From the Brink, Restart Nuclear Talks To Move Back From the Brink, Restart Nuclear Talks

It is high time that the US pursued disarmament diplomacy. 

Aug 11, 2022 / Daryl G. Kimball

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