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Noam Chomsky discusses the hypocrisies of US empire and why if we really wanted to build a decent society, we’d immediately slash the massive military budget.

A new biography of Robert Welch traces the origins and history of the anti-Communist John Birch Society and provides historical perspective on the Trump era.

Clintonites taught their party how to talk about helping people without actually doing it.

In 'What It Took to Win,' Michael Kazin traces the history over the past two centuries of what he calls ‘the oldest mass party in the world’.

In the years before Barack Obama was elected, many groups on the extreme right kept a relatively low profile. With the election of a Black president, that changed.

On the promises and perils of very recent history.

What obligation does the US have toward people who are uprooted by war?

For 30 years, the debate has largely ignored the soaring costs of inaction.

My policy was to work for the best, while expanding NATO to prepare for the worst.

The lesson of the first Gulf War and its aftermath for handling Russia.

A few decades ago, the left and the right, politicians and the public, universally embraced the criminalization of drug use. But a new consensus has emerged.

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

The defeat of Robert Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987 changed the way justices are confirmed today.

Infrastructure has a long history of cloaking racism and preventing justice.

How Washington outsources its dirty work.

Even the most ardent advocates of NATO expansion after the implosion of the USSR realized that it had limits—and one of those limits was Ukraine.

Institutions meant to secure peace, from NATO to the U.N., date back to Truman’s Presidency. So do the conflicts threatening that peace.

The fate of the League of Nations provides a stark warning about using sanctions as a tool of modern warfare.

The idea of liberty has often seemed to mean freedom from government and its spending. But there is an alternate history, one just as foundational and defining.

To control inflation during WWII, the U.S. government resorted to wide-ranging price controls. Unintended consequences may be the reason they aren't used today.