Donald Rumsfeld

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

The United States’ destruction of Iraq remains the worst international crime of our time. Its perpetrators remain free and its horrors are buried.

Who disbanded Iraq’s army and de-Baathified its bureaucracy?

Melvyn Leffler’s book on the roots of the Iraq invasion demonstrates the pitfalls of excessive trust in one’s sources, especially when they're top policymakers.

A fatal combination of fear, power, and hubris.

From the very beginning, the problem with the US involvement in Afghanistan lay essentially in the deficits in American democracy.

The most complete account we are likely to get of the deceptions and duplicities that led to war leaves some crucial mysteries unsolved.

The godfather of supply-side economics is largely discredited by his peers, but revered by Trump and the GOP.

Long in retreat in the US, the welfare state found a haven in an unlikely place – the military, where it thrived for decades.

Mushroom clouds, duct tape, Judy Miller, Curveball. Recalling how Americans were sold a bogus case for invasion.

The selling of the Iraq war.

The long history of confusions, misconceptions, and miscalculations in the relationship between the US and Iraq, from 1979 to 2003.

We don’t need to imagine a world ravaged by nuclear war – we’re already living in it.

The invasion is still the most important foreign policy decision by a 21st century U.S. president, so the surfeit of analysis should surprise no one.

Twenty years later, I am living through the making of the Iraq War as history.

The flawed logic that produced the war is alive and well.

The historical insights of one era have been lost to the journalistic instincts of another.

The US’s history of evasiveness around wartime atrocities undermines the very institution that could bring Putin to justice: the International Criminal Court.

A new book situates the War on Terror as a story of domination which traces back to the founding of the US as a settler-colonial and slaveholding behemoth.

Why the American war was destined for catastrophe and tragedy from the start.