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Army of Shadows

by Seth Harp,

Searching for the Ukrainian foreign legion

Lines and Lineage

We often forget that the boundary between the United States and Mexico was not always where it is today. It used to be seven hundred miles farther north, following what…

The War of the World

by Rebecca Solnit,

On a single day in July of 1943, more than 500 Allied planes bombed Rome, killing 1,500 people. The city got off lightly compared with Naples, which was attacked 200…

Washington Is Burning

by Andrew Cockburn,

Two centuries of racial tribulation in the nation’s capital

Eye of the Drone

From statements made in February by the families of victims and survivors of a March 17, 2011, drone attack in the village of Datta Khel in the Pakistani region of…