The United States of Consumption
Our Trash and Our Lives, Here and Abroad.
Illness and Endless Wars
The Unrecognized Ripple Effects of Violence on Health.
American Troops as Migrants
Or Launching a War on America Itself
War Forever, Everywhere
Unexploded Ordnance and the Weaponry We Leave Behind.
America the Unwell
The Corporate Greed Threatening Our Stability.
Shooting Alone
America’s Social Priorities Shaped by Decades of War
The October 7th America Has Forgotten: And the War Deaths We No Longer Protest (or Even Think About)
Andrea Mazzarino compares American reactions to the present nightmare in Israel and Gaza to those about our own never-ending global wars.
Contemplating the Unimaginable Costs of a Nuclear War
If you are on the road to annihilation—get off.
How War Divides Us
The Ways Our Twenty-First-Century Wars Have Polarized Americans.
Americans in Pain
Confronting the Phantom Limbs of America’s Foreign Wars.
The Army We Don’t See
The Private Soldiers Who Fight in America’s Name.
America’s Remarkable Unwillingness to Support Its Veterans
Andrea Mazzarino explores how so many of the American military personnel dispatched to fight it and the rest of the disastrous Global War on Terror have suffered until this very…
Children of War
The War on Terror and the Battle for Young Minds.
What It Means for Hunger to Burn Through the Pentagon’s Ranks
Co-creator of the Costs of War Project and military spouse Andrea Mazzarino describes in all-too-devastating detail that a staggeringly over-funded military-industrial complex is, to use Eisenhower’s phrasing, indeed stealing from…
How Terror Came Home and What to Make of It
By Andrea Mazzarino | TomDispatch Recently, an agent of the Department of Homeland Security called me and started asking questions about a childhood acquaintance being investigated for extremism. I put…