Who needs dystopian novelists or absurd satirists when otherwise banal bureaucrats of the U.S. national security state do the job for them? It’s an old story with a new tech-savvy…
The president has tried to capitalize on arms sales to the Middle East to consolidate his political position at home throughout his tenure.
While in scale and scope the mission is comparably modest, it's perhaps most illustrative of how a generation of off-the-rails hyper-interventionism “ends.”
The Brown University Watson Institute Costs of War Project put out a report with the astounding figure. Here's what they got right and what they got wrong.
Due to the pandemic, the Pentagon is now rushing the future deployment of robot generals as a matter of national urgency.
This country’s 'forever wars' have become a kind of global pandemic all their own and, like a cytokine storm, are strangling the vital organs of democracy.
A jubilee moment in pandemic America? The poetry of a movement to change this country.
Another New York Times Russiagate bombshell turns out to be a dud, as dodgy stories spun out by Afghan intelligence and exploited by the Pentagon ultimately failed to convince US…
The former military analyst talks about why he leaked the Pentagon Papers and why there aren’t more whistleblowers today.
