Beyond

How the turn toward “precision” combat promoted endless war.

From the very beginning, the problem with the US involvement in Afghanistan lay essentially in the deficits in American democracy.

From the beginning, the War on Terror merged red-hot vengeance with calculated opportunism. Millions are still paying the price.

The US suffered grave losses in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we shouldn’t mistake revisions of US military strategy for a turn away from imperialist ambitions.

Cuba has spent its entire existence as a state and much of its late colonial past in Uncle Sam’s purported backyard.

Why efforts to curb the cruelty of military force may have backfired.

The forgotten history of Soviet-American vaccine diplomacy.

Can the partnership born on a maritime U.S.-U.K. summit still protect democracy?

The war in Afghanistan was nasty and brutish, marked by the same imperial arrogance that doomed U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

Seventy years after the UN Refugee Convention, the United States should refresh its commitment to displaced people.

When President Nixon launched the war on drugs in 1971, it set off a bloody chain reaction in Mexico as new documents reveal.

History offers a guide for why the American project in Afghanistan went wrong — and for the future of foreign engagement in the country.

Officials who drove the decades-long war in Afghanistan look back on the strategic errors and misjudgments that led to a 20-year quagmire.

What I learned about American power watching the U.S. leave Vietnam — and then Afghanistan decades later.

Half a world away, the citizens of two nations suffer at the hands of a familiar malefactor.

I spent 600 hours listening in on the people who now run Afghanistan. It wasn’t until the end of my tour that I understood what they were telling me.

The U.S. can’t win wars for countries.

Sarah Chayes describes her experiences in Afghanistan and who's to blame for the problems today.

The New Yorker staff writer Steve Coll on the humanitarian catastrophe that is now likely to engulf Afghan civilians, and how Joe Biden is shifting the blame.

How medical humanitarianism helped facilitate exploitation of Africa.

Confronting the violence of U.S. policing requires an international perspective.

The US has long had a brutal, domineering relationship with the Philippines. And crucially, it’s depended on the labor of colonized Filipinos themselves.

Until both American and Mexican police forces stop treating it like a war, the violence of drug prohibition won't stop.

Spencer Ackerman’s new book argues that the forever wars created the conditions for Trump’s rise.

Key events in the relationship between the two nations, as compiled by The Onion.

A leftist response to the 1936 Games being held in Nazi Germany, the proposed competition was canceled by the Spanish Civil War.

Since the 1970s, the U.S. and Russia have used marine mammals to further their military objectives, sparking protest from animal rights activists.

After 20 years of foreign policy failures following the attacks on the World Trade Center, America is finally rethinking its place in the world.

The nation’s poverty and chaos has been shaped by Washington for decades.

Colonial planners saw Nova Scotia as a blank space ripe for transformation.