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Remembrance of War as Warning
Might a new approach to war memorials keep us out of future unnecessary wars?
by
Christopher Preble
via
War on the Rocks
on
August 13, 2018
What Does It Mean to Give David Petraeus the Floor?
Some historians worry that giving the former general an invitation to keynote means giving him a pulpit.
by
Gunar Olsen
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The Nation
on
July 5, 2018
How Torture-Produced Intelligence Deceived Us Into Iraq
A first-hand account of how intel gleaned from 'enhanced interrogation' was used to make the case for the 2003 invasion.
by
Lawrence Wilkerson
via
The American Conservative
on
May 9, 2018
The Left's Embrace of Empire
The history of the left in the United States is a history of betrayal.
by
Lyle Jeremy Rubin
via
The Nation
on
March 28, 2018
Kneeling for Hollywood
How Hollywood portrays religious prayer.
by
Melani McAlister
via
Modern American History
on
March 5, 2018
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
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Boston Review
on
January 26, 2018
Guantánamo Bay is Still Open. Still. STILL!
41 men are still being held without charges, without a way to leave, without homes to return to.
by
Sarah Mirk
,
Jess Parker
via
The Nib
on
January 17, 2018
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
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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
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
The Most Patriotic Act
A warning from September 2001 about government overreach in the name of national security.
by
Eric Foner
via
The Nation
on
September 20, 2001
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
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Current Affairs
on
March 18, 2025
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What Is the Role of the Historian?
Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.
by
Barbara Weinstein
via
HNN
on
February 4, 2025
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
The Bipartisan Origins of the New Cold War
Starting with Obama, American presidents embraced the idea of arresting China’s rise, opening the door to Trump’s trade wars and hawkishness.
by
Michael Brenes
,
Van Jackson
via
Jacobin
on
November 25, 2024
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
How Everything Became National Security
And national security became everything.
by
Daniel W. Drezner
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Foreign Affairs
on
August 12, 2024
The Ghosts Of New Atheism Still Haunt Us
In trying to freeze reality into a cudgel that can be used to assault political opponents, the New Atheists deny the observable evidence in front of them.
by
Erik Baker
via
Defector
on
May 29, 2024
Rock-Fuel and Warlike People: On Mitch Troutman’s “The Bootleg Coal Rebellion”
Native son Jonah Walters finds something entirely too innocent about the tales told about the anthracite industry’s origins.
by
Jonah Walters
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
March 21, 2024
A Brief History of the US-Israel 'Special Relationship'
A historian of the Middle East examines how connections have shifted since long before the 1948 founding of the Jewish state.
by
Fayez Hammad
via
The Conversation
on
November 29, 2023
How George W. Bush Helped Hamas Come to Power
In Bush’s naïveté about the magic of elections, he ignored a crucial point about democracy.
by
Fred Kaplan
via
Slate
on
October 24, 2023
How Trauma Became America’s Favorite Diagnosis
Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk’s once controversial theory of trauma became the dominant way we make sense of our lives.
by
Danielle Carr
via
Intelligencer
on
July 31, 2023
The Real Story Behind This Iconic 9/11 Photo
How does an image become “iconic?” And when it does, will its meaning change?
via
The Bigger Picture
on
September 6, 2022
Our Hypocrisy on War Crimes
The US’s history of evasiveness around wartime atrocities undermines the very institution that could bring Putin to justice: the International Criminal Court.
by
Fintan O’Toole
via
New York Review of Books
on
May 5, 2022
The Disastrous Return of Cold War Strategy
Hal Brands urges the U.S. to make China and Russia “pay exorbitantly” for their policies. History shows that has never worked.
by
Jordan Michael Smith
via
The New Republic
on
March 10, 2022
Not Humane, Just Invisible
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.
by
Priya Satia
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
December 3, 2021
Merchants of Death
From the Nye Committee to Joe Kent, the fight against war profiteering is a constant struggle.
by
Hunter DeRensis
via
The American Conservative
on
November 8, 2021
Guantánamo’s Other History
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.
by
Jeffrey Kahn
via
Boston Review
on
October 14, 2021
Occupy Memory
In 2011, a grassroots anticapitalist movement galvanized people with its slogan “We are the 99 percent.” It changed me, and others, but did it change the world?
by
Molly Crabapple
via
New York Review of Books
on
September 16, 2021
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