Iraq War

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

America’s worst secretary of defense never expressed a quiver of regret.

What the youngest cohort of American voters thinks about politics, fear and the potential of the country they’ve grown up in.

Iran and surplus imperialism.

A longer look reveals interesting patterns and may clarify what is driving a rise in suicides.

We say we’re a peaceful nation. Why do our leaders always keep us at war?

Walter Jones and the unintended consequences of the War Crimes Act of 1996.

From the 80s onwards, the borderlands were rife with paramilitary cruelty and racism. But the president’s rhetoric has thrown fuel on the fire.

Americans have erected countless monuments to past wars. But how do we pay tribute to the fallen in a conflict that may never end?

The grand lesson of John McCain's life should be that heroic politics is a broken politics.

Some historians worry that giving the former general an invitation to keynote means giving him a pulpit.

A first-hand account of how intel gleaned from 'enhanced interrogation' was used to make the case for the 2003 invasion.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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