Beyond

There are important differences between Xi Jinping’s China and the Soviet Union, but the Cold War still offers clear strategic guidance for the U.S.

A counter-narrative to Samuel Moyn’s "Humane": drone warfare and the long history of liberal empire blurring the line between policing and endless war.

The 2015 Paris Agreement represented a shift in the climate regime towards "new governance," expanding the roles of nation-states and non-state actors alike.

Learning the right lessons of the past.

After Japan's surrender, U.S. troops rebelled against a plan to keep them overseas, staging dramatic protests from the Philippines to Guam.

Contractors are increasingly doing dangerous work helping our troops — without any of the recognition.

A conversation with two journalists who were among the first to uncover evidence of a deadly rampage.

With Susan Ronald’s meticulous, relentless biography, Joseph P. Kennedy is now firmly established in the annals of twentieth-century fascism.

The Pentagon is increasing its forces on the US territory, but Indigenous residents are fighting back.

The majority-female platoon from North Vietnam that fought against U.S. forces in the Vietnam War.

The CIA committed many crimes in the early days of post-independence Africa. But is it fair to call their interference “recolonization”?

The Haitian migrant crisis is the latest stage in a decades-long legacy of mistreatment by the U.S. government, much of which unfolded at Cuban detention facilities.

The Movement for Black Lives has developed an incipient internationalist language and vision, with the potential to remap America’s place in the world.

Relying on private contractors has always created problems for the U.S. military.

Did the United States have no other option but to drop atomic bombs on Japan in order to get them to surrender?

Samuel Moyn contends that efforts to conduct war humanely have only perpetuated it. But the solution must lie in politics, not a sacrifice of human rights.

For more than a century, U.S. wars of invasion have claimed a humanitarian mantle.

Hundreds of thousands of Afghans and Iraqis displaced by war have settled in the U.S., their journeys spurred by tragedy and loss in the wake of 9/11.

Yale's John Fabian Witt pens a review of Samuel Moyn's new book, Humane.

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.