Reign of Terror

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.

Two new books argue that the War on Terror changed American politics, but what if the sources of its violence were already long present in the country?

The books of the last two decades show how overreacting to the attacks unmade America’s values.

Spencer Ackerman’s new book argues that the forever wars created the conditions for Trump’s rise.