Military policy

The Old Normal

By Andrew J. Bacevich,

Why we can’t beat our addiction to war

Must Flee TV

By William M. Arkin,

From a resignation email sent to NBC News in January by William M. Arkin, a national security reporter who had worked at the network off and on since 1999. January 4…

What China Threat?

By Kishore Mahbubani,

How the United States and China can avoid war

“Tell Me How This Ends”

By Charles Glass,

America’s muddled involvement with Syria

How to Start a Nuclear War

By Andrew Cockburn,

The increasingly direct road to ruin

Mobbed Up

By Andrew Cockburn,

How America boosts the Afghan opium trade

The Minds of Others

By David Bromwich, Garth Greenwell, Hanif Abdurraqib, Kelly Clancy, Laila Lalami, Mychal Denzel Smith, T. M. Luhrmann,

The art of persuasion in the age of Trump

Destroyer of Worlds

By Elaine Scarry, Eric Schlosser, Lydia Millet, Mohammed Hanif, Rachel Bronson, Theodore Postol,

Taking stock of our nuclear present

Everyman’s War

By Elisabeth Zerofsky,

The paramilitary fighters training to keep Russia out of the Baltics

W.W.E. the People

By Naomi Klein,

By Naomi Klein, from No Is Not Enough, which was published in June by Haymarket Books. Klein is the author of The Shock Doctrine, among other books. Read More

The New Red Scare

By Andrew Cockburn,

Reviving the art of threat inflation

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The Old Normal

Must Flee TV

What China Threat?

“Tell Me How This Ends”

How to Start a Nuclear War

Mobbed Up

The Minds of Others

Destroyer of Worlds

Everyman’s War

W.W.E. the People

The New Red Scare

December 2016