The War on Terror Is a Success — for Terror
Terrorist groups have doubled since the passage of the 2001 AUMF. Even back in 2001, it should have been painfully predictable that this country’s war on terror would turn into…
New Year’s Day 2050
The international community will, by mid-century, need to find new forms of collaboration to contain the damage wrought by climate catastrophe, writes Alfred W. McCoy.
A Christmas Confession: I’m Taking an Eco-Holiday From It All (and So Are My Kids)
From the global shipment of products to the use of plastic packaging, American consumerism is leaving a carbon footprint.
A Project for Survival in These United States
Lifting from the bottom so everyone can rise.
Recovering from America’s Imperial Delusions
U.S. Army soldiers conduct a foot patrol in Afghanistan.
Debt and Disillusionment: How College Is Like the Airplane Game
At many American colleges and universities, adjunct faculty members have become essential. So why don't they get their due in payment and benefits?
What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire
Perhaps even more relevant today than it was in 2008, when it was first published, is the remarkable Howard Zinn's writing on how, from his childhood in school to his…
Kelly Denton-Borhaug: Christianity Is the Linchpin in America’s War Machine
Dr. Kelly Denton-Borhaug, a professor of religious studies, examines how Christian rhetoric is used to justify endless wars and the “moral injury” they inflict.
Will There Be Resource Wars in a Renewable Future?
If the two greatest greenhouse-gas emitters on this planet can’t work together, we’re all going to be living in a more or less literal hell.
Joe Biden’s First 100 Days Were a Pentagon Prize
The saddest story of the Biden moment is that, amid proposed domestic advances, the Pentagon is still going to be funded and fed in the all-too-usual, wildly profligate fashion.
Biden Is Playing an Apocalyptic Game of Chicken With China
Could the U.S. and China face an unintended blowup in the Western Pacific in the Biden years?
Can We Finally Stop Marching to Disaster?
It’s almost twenty years since 9/11, why is it still all war, all the time?
A Short History of How America Killed Accountability
The country's loss of accountability has been coming for a long time at what, in retrospect, should seem an alarmingly inexorable pace.