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Paul Bremmer at a desk, signing his name on a letter.

Paul Bremer, Ski Instructor

Learning to shred with the Bush Administration’s Iraq War fall guy.

by Aaron Gell via Task & Purpose on March 26, 2018

Pat Tillman memorial with American flags.

The NFL, the Military, and the Hijacking of Pat Tillman’s Story

Pat Tillman’s life and death is an all-American story. It’s just not the kind that Donald Trump and his supporters want it to be.

by Ryan Devereaux via The Intercept on September 28, 2017

How America Shed the Taboo Against Preventive War

If Dwight Eisenhower or Ronald Reagan were transported to 2017, they would be shocked that the United States is considering an attack on North Korea.

by Peter Beinart via The Atlantic on April 21, 2017

The Untold Story of the Iraq War’s Disastrous Toll on the City of New Orleans

The Bush administration thought an elective war would make America safer. Then Katrina hit.

by Paul A. Kramer via Slate on September 7, 2016

Why Are We in the Middle East?

America’s devotion to the Middle East did not make much sense in 2003, Bacevich argues; but it did in 1980, and the reason was oil.

by Richard Beck via n+1 on July 29, 2016

History’s True Warning

How our misunderstanding of the Holocaust offers moral cover for the geopolitical disasters of our time.

by Timothy Snyder via Slate on September 23, 2015

Map of Sterling Heights

What Explains Michigan's Large Arab American Community?

Why has Michigan continued to draw so many immigrants from the Arab world, creating one of the largest Arab communities outside the Middle East?

by Sarah Cwiek via Michigan Radio on July 9, 2014

Don’t Despair About the Supreme Court

In 2005, Howard Zinn explained why it was naive to depend on the Court to defend the rights of marginalized Americans.

by Howard Zinn via The Progressive on October 21, 2005

The Debate Over War Powers

Two legal scholars make the case that President Bush must seek congressional authorization before initiating a preemptive military strike on Iraq.

by Mark R. Shulman, Lawrence J. Lee via American Bar Association on January 1, 2003

William F. Buckley Jr. (far right) with his brother, New York senator James L. Buckley, Ronald Reagan, and Barry Goldwater at National Review’s twentieth-anniversary celebration, New York City, November 1975

Conservatism’s Baton Twirler

A Republican administration that wages war against immigrants and colleges should be understood as the culmination of William F. Buckley conservative movement.

by Osita Nwanevu via New York Review of Books on September 2, 2025

John McCain stands in a crowd shaking hands in a Ukrainian city.

How Decades of Folly Led to War in Ukraine

For decades, US hostility towards Russia and continued NATO encroachment ever further into Eastern Europe have laid the groundwork for the current crisis.

by Michael A. Reynolds via Compact on August 15, 2025

Donald Trump shakes the hand of a border patrol officer while a line of others waits to meet him.

State of Exception

National security governance, then and now.

by David Klion via The Drift on June 24, 2025

Michael Ledeen.

Michael Ledeen Was the Forrest Gump of American Fascism

From Iran-contra to Iraq war WMD lies to Trumpism, this right-wing pundit kept subverting democracy.

by Jeet Heer via The Nation on May 30, 2025

Photograph of JFK speaking to a crowd.

MAGA Without Greatness

From "National Greatness" to "Make America Great Again."

by Joshua Tait via To Live Is To Maneuver on March 19, 2025

Collage of protesters holding up signs against war taxes.

Could Tax Protests Defund the American War Machine?

Tax resistance has long opposed war and empire in North America, and could be a way to resist U.S. funding of violence in Gaza today.

by Lauren Fadiman via Current Affairs on March 18, 2025

President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin.

The First Draft of the Ukraine War’s History

Washington’s policy-makers showed themselves more wicked and feckless than their Vietnam- and Iraq-era predecessors.

by Scott McConnell via The American Conservative on February 19, 2025

President George W. Bush delivering the first State of the Union speech after the 9/11 attacks.

The Legacy of the ‘Axis of Evil’

One speech permanently influenced American diplomacy—and not for the better.

by Kourosh Ziabari via The American Conservative on December 20, 2024

You Had to Be There

Whose side is the war correspondent on?

by Zoë Hu via The Baffler on November 5, 2024

Followers salute Trump at his rally in Madison Square Garden.

Trump in the Garden

Eight years into the fascism debate, few skeptics seem to be willing to admit that they were wrong.

by Patrick Iber via Dissent on October 29, 2024

Martin Luther King Jr. speaking to an anti-Vietnam War rally in 1967.

The Anti-War Political Tradition: An Introduction

Anti-war politics has a rich historical tradition, one that seems to be in desperate need of revival.

by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins via Foreign Exchanges on September 17, 2024

Twin towers missing; twin towers visible with surroundings missing.

How the War on Terror Warped the American Left

A new book on how 9/11 altered the national psyche also demonstrates how it stunted progressive politics.

by Gal Beckerman via The Atlantic on September 10, 2024

A painting of a desolated, ruined street.

Defeating Death Only with Death

On civilians’ opinion of killing civilians by air during World War II.

by Cormac Ó Gráda via HNN on September 10, 2024

Art piece of a hand holding barbed wire.

Do Border

Who can migrate to the US and make their home here? Who gets to drop US-made bombs, and who is expected to suffer them? These are not unrelated questions.

by Daniel Denvir via n+1 on August 22, 2024

Still from the film 'Red Dawn" showing three men holding rifles and binoculars.

Why 1984's 'Red Dawn' Still Matters

By framing the U.S. as a victim, 'Red Dawn' obscured U.S. aggression in Latin America and elsewhere.

by Michelle D. Paranzino via Made By History on August 9, 2024

Friends and Enemies

Marty Peretz and the travails of American liberalism.

by Jeet Heer via The Nation on May 14, 2024

Joe Biden and George W. Bush.

Biden Is Repeating Bush’s Post-9/11 Playbook. It’s Not Working.

Like his predecessor, the president is decrying anti-Arab and Muslim hatred while helping fuel it. People are refusing to let him get away with this hypocrisy.

by Saliha Bayrak via The Nation on February 23, 2024

The New York Times headquarters in Manhattan.

The ‘Times’ Is A-Changing

A new history of the ‘New York Times.’

by Paul Moses via Commonweal on January 7, 2024

“All the Consent That’s Fit to Manufacture”

An interrogation of The New York Times’ archive reveals a sordid record of support for American wars, right-wing dictatorships and U.S.-backed regime-change.

by Writers Against the War on Gaza via The New York War Crimes on November 29, 2023

America Is a Root Cause of Israel and Palestine’s Latest War

How 30 years of U.S. policy ended in disaster.

by Stephen Walt via Foreign Policy on October 18, 2023

Have We Learned Nothing?

The comparison between last weekend's Hamas attack and 9/11 is apt.

by David Klion via n+1 on October 10, 2023

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