War

Salable Virtues

By Rony Brauman,

From Humanitarian Wars?, which will be published in April in the United Kingdom by Hurst. Brauman, a physician, was president of Doctors Without Borders from 1982 to 1994. This conversation,…

Safety in Numbers

By Gary Greenberg,

I went to fetch some new chickens the other day. The birds were Rhode Island Reds, homely and reliable, and so meek that it took the breeder and me only…

Hitler and Other Syria-debate Low Points

By John R. MacArthur, on September 12, 2013

When the facts won’t convince the public to march into battle, politicians ramp up the rhetoric Read More

The Party of Wilson, Wiretaps, and War

By John R. MacArthur, on July 18, 2013

On the problems with Democratic interventions Read More

In matters of foreign policy, Congress, and especially the Senate, was designed as a hedge against the abuses exhibited by European monarchs who for centuries had whimsically entangled their countries…

Conjectural damage

By Daniel Swift,

Known Knowns

Translated by Svetlana Savranskaya

From a May 10, 1988, letter from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to all Party members. The withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan began…

Jesus Killed Mohammed

By Jeff Sharlet,

When Sergeant Jeffery Humphrey and his squad of nine men, part of the 1/26 Infantry of the 1st Infantry Division, were assigned to a Special Forces compound in Samarra, he…

Utopia falls

By John Gray,

Obsession

Art by Sandow Birk,

Invasion