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Militarism

Politics

America's Imperial Unraveling

Could Trump's repudiation of the Iran Deal be the beginning of the end of U.S. hegemony abroad?

Aslı U. Bâli, Aziz Rana

War & Security

An Open Letter from Guam to America

On becoming the collateral damage of American warmongering.

Victoria-Lola M. Leon Guerrero

War & Security

Militarizing the Presidency

Since its origins, the United States has grappled with the role of the military in a democracy. Given Trump's latest moves, do the people still decide who will be killed in their name?

Andrew Lanham

Class & Inequality, Politics

The Power and the Glory

The notion of American exceptionalism—that the United States alone has the right, whether by

Howard Zinn

Politics, War & Security

Cold War Casualties

Cold War Triumphalism Ellen Schrecker, editor The New Press, $27.95 (cloth) Day by day and

Neta C. Crawford

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