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War & Security

Banking on the Cold War

The Cold War says more about how U.S. elites imagined their “freedom” than it does about enabling other people to be free.

Nikhil Pal Singh

Global Justice

Mass Starvation Is a Crime—It's Time We Treated It That Way

The famine in Yemen is not simply “man-made.” Particular men are responsible, and they should be brought to justice.

Alex de Waal

Politics

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.

Greg Grandin

War & Security

Trump’s Foreign Policy Isn’t the Problem

It reflects, like a funhouse mirror, a twisted image of U.S. imperialism.

Jeanne Morefield

Reading Lists

Is Citizenship Meaningless?

A reading list on surveillance, security, and citizenship-for-sale.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Law & Justice

Citizenship v. The Surveillance State

We have surrendered the cherished value of “innocent until proven guilty” for the security logic that we are all “risky until proven safe.”

Matthew Longo

Reading Lists

A Veterans Day Reading List

From PTSD to dissenting.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Literature & Culture

Monsters vs. Empire

Trump’s Space Force is a bad reboot of the old imperial fantasy of control from above.

Mark Bould

War & Security

The U.S. Debt to Syria

With Assad preparing a major offensive on the last rebel stronghold, the United States must offer a path forward. 

Aslı U. Bâli, Aziz Rana

Reading Lists

An Anti-Imperialism Reading List

Your fourth of July reading. 

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Class & Inequality, Literature & Culture

Left Behind by Korea’s Success

Hwang Sok-yong’s new novel sounds a warning about the pitfalls of Korean reunification.

John Feffer

Politics, War & Security

Bloody Gina

Gina Haspel’s confirmation hearing is later this week. Here’s why we should all be concerned.

Scott Casleton

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