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Martin Luther King Jr. speaking into news microphones.

Against National Security Citizenship

By connecting liberation at home with an end to U.S. militarism abroad, today's black activists are picking up where MLK left off.
by Aziz Rana via Boston Review on February 7, 2018
Political Cartoon of Uncle Sam bringing shovels to McKinley who has one foot in the U.S. and the other in Panama, as American flags dot the globe.

The Large Policy

How the Spanish-American War laid the groundwork for American empire.
by Brenda Wineapple via The Nation on January 31, 2018
An American flag at the Vietnam Memorial on the National Mall.

Exceptional Victims

The resistance to the Vietnam War was the most diverse and dynamic antiwar movement in U.S. history. We have all but forgotten it today.
by Christian G. Appy via Boston Review on January 26, 2018
Drawing of soldiers in combat uniforms.

The Good War

How America’s infatuation with World War II has eroded our conscience.
by Mike Dawson via The Nib on January 10, 2018
Civil War rifles mounted on wall

The Brutal Origins of Gun Rights

A new history argues that the Second Amendment was intended to perpetuate white settlers' violence toward Native Americans.
by Patrick Blanchfield via The New Republic on December 11, 2017

The NFL Marketing Ploy That Was Too Successful For The League’s Own Good

For decades, the NFL has used patriotism to advance its interests. Now fans expect it to be something it never was.
by Jesse Berrett via Washington Post on December 10, 2017

The Unintended Consequences of Veterans' Day

In hindsight: A day created to commemorate peace has been transformed into one that perpetuates war.
by Paul Steege via Hindsights on November 10, 2017
Indian bicycle troops at the battle of the Somme in 1916.

How Colonial Violence Came Home: The Ugly Truth of the First World War

We remember WWI as an unexpected catastrophe. But for the millions living under imperialist rule, terror and degradation were nothing new.
by Pankaj Mishra via The Guardian on November 10, 2017
Barbara Lee speaking at a House of Representatives podium.

The Origin of Endless War

On Barbara Lee and the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.
by Richard Beck via n+1 on August 11, 2017

Triumph of the Shill

The political theory of Trumpism.
by Corey Robin via n+1 on August 9, 2017

Why Teddy Roosevelt Tried to Bully His Way Onto the WWI Battlefield

Tensions ran high when President Wilson quashed the return of the former president’s Rough Riders
by Erick Trickey via Smithsonian on April 10, 2017

The Odds Against Antiwar Warriors

A review of Michael Kazin's "War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918."
by Andrew J. Bacevich via The American Conservative on March 30, 2017
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Lessons From A Japanese Internment Camp

Trump ally Carl Higbie recently cited Japanese internment camps during World War II as a “precedent” for a proposed registry of Muslims in the U.S.
by Livia Gershon, Hui Wu via JSTOR Daily on December 5, 2016

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

Don’t Be So Quick to Defend Woodrow Wilson

It would be a grave mistake to ignore the link between Wilson’s white supremacy at home and his racist militarism abroad.
by Greg Grandin via The Nation on November 24, 2015
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How a Standoff with the Black Panthers Fueled the Rise of SWAT

SWAT teams were created in the 1960s to combat violent events. Since then, the specialized teams have morphed into something very different.
via Retro Report on August 5, 2015

'The Greatest Catastrophe the World Has Seen'

Considering six books on the outbreak of World War I and its place in history.
by R. J. W. Evans via New York Review of Books on February 6, 2014
The large Wide Awake parade in lower Manhattan.

“Young Men for War”: The Wide Awakes and Lincoln’s 1860 Presidential Campaign

Wearing shiny black capes and practicing infantry drills had nothing to do with preparing for civil war.
by Jon Grinspan via Journal of American History on September 1, 2009
Alexander Hamilton.

Inventing Alexander Hamilton

The troubling embrace of the founder of American finance.
by William Hogeland via Boston Review on November 1, 2007

The Good War on Terror

To fully understand what has gone wrong since 9/11, it is necessary to rewind the tape to that moment just before.
by Chris Hayes via In These Times on September 8, 2006
French soldiers at the Battle of the Marne, in 1915.

Rethinking the War to End All Wars

For the players in the First World War, the goal was not to prevail but to avoid being seen as the loser.
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on August 16, 2004
Ships on fire and being evacuated at Pearl Harbor.

Pearl Harbor as Metaphor

At the frontier of American empire.
by John Gregory Dunne via The New Yorker on April 29, 2001
Black soldiers and well-dressed women walking proudly in a military camp.

Chocolate City

Right after slavery ended in the United States, thousands of Black people, formerly enslaved by white slave holders in the South, flooded Washington, DC.
by Kaitlyn Greenidge via What It Is I Think I'm Doing on August 14, 2025
A teacher holds a students feet while the student does situps as part of a fitness test.

Can President Trump Run a Mile?

By reviving the Presidential Fitness Test, Trump is joining his predecessors in setting forth a competition that he would likely fail at.
by Zach Helfand via The New Yorker on August 12, 2025
Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff/Getty Images

The Rise of the US Military’s Clandestine Foreign War Apparatus

In the darkest days of the Iraq War, the highly secretive Joint Special Operations Command emerged as one of the most influential institutions in government.
by Seth Harp via Wired on August 12, 2025
Mike Davis

The Marxism of Mike Davis

On the life, influences, and “sophisticated yet lucid brand of Marxism” of the late, great writer.
by Nelson Lichtenstein via Jacobin on July 31, 2025
Workers adjust a metal sheet on a Titan missile assembly line.

The Permanent War Economy Doesn’t Benefit Workers

Advocates of “military Keynesianism” present it as a boon for the working class. In reality, it diverts resources away from social provision.
by Hanna Goldberg via Jacobin on June 23, 2025
A man pushes a bicycle as he walks amid rubble in the devastated area around Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital, April 3, 2024. (AFP via Getty Images)

Gaza and the Undoing of Zionism

A historian reviews new books by Peter Beinart, Avi Shlaim and Pankaj Mishra on the project that animates Israel’s violence.
by Yakov M. Rabkin via New Lines on June 20, 2025
Strings descend from the talons of an eagle's foot and hold up a shipping container.

Why Donald Trump Is Obsessed with William McKinley

McKinley led a country defined by tariffs and colonial wars. Trump is drawn to his legacy—and determined to bring the liberal international order to an end.
by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on June 16, 2025
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