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Taliban soldier in front of a large group of Afghan people.

How America Failed in Afghanistan

The New Yorker staff writer Steve Coll on the humanitarian catastrophe that is now likely to engulf Afghan civilians, and how Joe Biden is shifting the blame.
by Steve Coll, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on August 15, 2021
The Philippine Scouts, a unit of the American army blamed for mass killings and torture, stand in formation circa 1905.

How the Philippines Were Crucial to the Making of American Empire

The US has long had a brutal, domineering relationship with the Philippines. And crucially, it’s depended on the labor of colonized Filipinos themselves.
by Michael Brenes via Jacobin on August 13, 2021
President Obama in the Oval Office.

Pictures at a Restoration

On Pete Souza’s Obama.
by Blair McClendon via n+1 on August 10, 2021
Riot police clash with demonstrators in Medellín, Colombia, last week.
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The U.S. War on Drugs Helped Unleash the Violence in Colombia Today

Efforts to combat narcotics and communism militarized the country's security forces.
by Kyle Longley via Made By History on June 8, 2021
US military boarding a plan

History's Warning for the U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan

History suggests that a more discreet American presence in Afghanistan will be a provocation rather than a source of security.
by Priya Satia via TIME on April 27, 2021
Silhouette of a soldier sitting on aircraft

The Long Roots of Endless War

A new history shows how the glut of US military bases abroad has led to a constant state of military conflict.
by Daniel Immerwahr via The Nation on November 30, 2020

The Unpresident and the Unredeemed Promise

A combination of historical surpluses—the afterlives of slavery, of the deranged presidency—has raised the stakes in the present struggle.
by Fintan O’Toole via New York Review of Books on June 12, 2020

War Has Been the Governing Metaphor for Decades of American Life

But the COVID-19 pandemic exposes its weaknesses.
by Paul M. Renfro via TIME on April 15, 2020

“The Police Know Guerrilla Warfare”

During the Cold War, cops at home and military personnel abroad exchanged techniques and tactics to mete out repression and thwart leftist insurgencies.
by Kyle Burke via Jacobin on December 20, 2019

Enough Toxic Militarism

Decades of militarization in U.S. foreign policy have fueled violence at every level of American society.
by Nikhil Pal Singh via Quincy Institute for Responsible State Craft on December 4, 2019

The Pervasive Power of the Settler Mindset

More than simple racism, the destructive premise at the core of the American settler narrative is that freedom is built upon violent elimination.
by Nikhil Pal Singh via Boston Review on November 26, 2019

9/11 Is History Now. Here's How American Kids Are Learning About It in Class

"I get teary-eyed with my students."
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on September 10, 2019
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A Brief History of the Theory Trump and Barr Use to Resist Congressional Oversight

Is Trump's power as president becoming just what the Founders feared?
by Donald J. Fraser via HNN on June 2, 2019

Congressional Action on Yemen May Be the First Salvo Against Presidential War Powers

President Trump’s skirting around Congress to sell arms to Saudi Arabia is only the latest example of presidential overreach.
by R. Joseph Parrott via The Conversation on May 29, 2019

Now You See It, Now You Don't

On the danger that the US government's habit of redacting official documents poses to democracy.
by Karen J. Greenberg via Tom Dispatch on May 14, 2019

The Toxic Legacy of the Korean War

The Korean War upended the constitutional balance of war powers. It has been cited by presidents ever since.
by Mary L. Dudziak via Washington Post on March 1, 2019

How Violent American Vigilantes at the Border Led to Trump’s Wall

From the 80s onwards, the borderlands were rife with paramilitary cruelty and racism. But the president’s rhetoric has thrown fuel on the fire.
by Greg Grandin via The Guardian on February 28, 2019

How the United States Reinvented Empire

Americans tend to see their country as a nation-state, not an imperial power.
by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on February 12, 2019

It Will Take More Than Congress to Cure America’s War Addiction

All that talk about "reclaiming" congressional war powers? Historically, Congress has applauded presidential wars.
by Gunar Olsen via The New Republic on February 6, 2019

A Brief History of Guantanamo Bay, America’s “Idyllic Prison Camp”

A hundred years at the edge of empire.
by Stephen Benz via Literary Hub on January 30, 2019

Imperial Exceptionalism

Is it time for an end to American imperialism? Two authors re-examine American intervention overseas.
by Jackson Lears via New York Review of Books on January 29, 2019
Painting of cavalry with swords drawn heading into U.S.-Mexico War battle.

American Extremism Has Always Flowed from the Border

Donald Trump says there is “a crisis of the soul” at the border. He is right, though not in the way he thinks.
by Greg Grandin via Boston Review on January 9, 2019
Woodrow Wilson speaking to Congress.
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We’re Still Haunted by Our Failure to Grapple with the Dark Side of World War I

Changes wrought by the war still shape America today.
by Christopher McKnight Nichols via Made By History on November 11, 2018

Breaking News

Seymour Hersh and the ambiguities of investigative reporting.
by Michael Massing via The Nation on September 27, 2018

The Logic of Militant Democracy

From domestic concentration camps to the war on terror.
by Udi Greenberg via n+1 on July 6, 2018

What Happened to the “Free World”?

Pundits can't seem to define what exactly the term refers to. Turns out it was developed for a very particular historical moment.
by Peter Slezkine via The New Republic on May 22, 2018
Putin and Trump.

The Secret Life of Statutes: A Century of the Trading with the Enemy Act

What began as an effort to define and punish trading with the enemy has transformed into economic warfare.
by Benjamin Coates via Modern American History on May 16, 2018

We’re the Good Guys, Right?

Marvel's heroes are back again, but with little of the subversive aura that once surrounded them.
by Daniel Immerwahr via n+1 on April 26, 2018
James Comey, a tall white man in a suit, receiving a certificate in front of wall with a "Birmingham Civil Rights Institute" sign and a quote from Martin Luther King, Jr.

Under Comey's Leadership, the FBI Targeted Black Activists and Muslim Communities

This is the man who has criticized the FBI's surveillance of Martin Luther King as "shameful."
by Jeanne Theoharis via The Intercept on April 24, 2018

Iraq, 15 Years Later

Fifteen years after the U.S. invasion, there’s no satisfying answer to the question: What were we doing in Iraq anyway?
by Theodore R. Johnson III via The Atlantic on March 20, 2018
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