National Security

New York National Guard members

Trump Is Exploiting the National Guard Trump Is Exploiting the National Guard

Former presidents have deployed the reserve military force to bust unions, quell riots, and fight in wars of our own making. Trump is now using it to fabricate a border crisis.

Feb 11, 2019 / Rebecca Gordon

21 Savage

21 Savage Is Every Immigrant 21 Savage Is Every Immigrant

The rapper’s dramatic arrest is typical of ICE’s race-baiting and fear-mongering.

Feb 7, 2019 / Chris Gelardi

Honduran Refugees in Guatemala

Trump’s War on Migrants Is an Affront to Humanity Trump’s War on Migrants Is an Affront to Humanity

His policies are endangering families facing violence, displacement, and persecution.

Feb 7, 2019 / Arnold Isaacs

US-Mexico border

The Climate Wall: Q&A With Todd Miller The Climate Wall: Q&A With Todd Miller

There is an inextricable link between border militarization and climate change.

Feb 6, 2019 / Q&A / Will Meyer

Occupy Oakland

Economic Nationalism Is Suicide Economic Nationalism Is Suicide

Our inability to think globally pushes us further into a world of growing jingoism and martial confrontation.

Feb 5, 2019 / Jamie Merchant

Anti-Nuclear War Demonstration

Trump Is Igniting a Perilous New Nuclear-Arms Race Trump Is Igniting a Perilous New Nuclear-Arms Race

Enforcement, not abandonment, is the answer to violations of the INF Treaty.

Feb 5, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin

Trump’s Withdrawals From Afghanistan and Syria Are Hardly ‘A Gift to Putin’ Trump’s Withdrawals From Afghanistan and Syria Are Hardly ‘A Gift to Putin’

Why would Moscow want to fight terrorists without the US? It doesn’t.

Jan 30, 2019 / Stephen F. Cohen

Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, speaks to reporters

A Former Boeing Executive Is Now Running the Pentagon A Former Boeing Executive Is Now Running the Pentagon

Patrick Shanahan, Trump’s new acting defense secretary, has spent an career serving the interests of Boeing’s bottom line. How will he serve the public instead?

Jan 29, 2019 / William D. Hartung and Mandy Smithberger

Trump at a military base in Iraq

The American Empire’s History of Amnesia The American Empire’s History of Amnesia

Trump’s recent comments on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan demonstrate the country’s reluctance to remember its foreign policy indiscretions.

Jan 24, 2019 / Tom Engelhardt

US-Korea Talks

US-North Korea Talks Are Moving Decisively to the Diplomatic Phase US-North Korea Talks Are Moving Decisively to the Diplomatic Phase

Despite the progress, pundits and leading Democrats still complain.

Jan 23, 2019 / Tim Shorrock

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