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Exceptional Victims

The resistance to the Vietnam War was the most diverse and dynamic antiwar movement in U.S. history. We have all but forgotten it today.

Christian G. Appy

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War & Security

Politics, War & Security

Matters of Choice

The United States will lose the war for control of the Middle East.

Andrew J. Bacevich, Stephen Kinzer

Literature & Culture, Politics

Machinations of Wicked Men

Niall Ferguson’s protestations aside, Henry Kissinger was the quintessential foreign policy realist.

Jonathan Kirshner

Global Justice, War & Security

Syria after the Ceasefire

Negotiations may ease the humanitarian crisis—while strengthening Assad.

Stephen Zunes

Global Justice, Politics

Turkey Descends into Authoritarianism

Fears of terrorism, and President Erdoğan’s rivalry with an exiled theologian, have become excuses for censorship and repression.

Umar Farooq

Science & Nature, War & Security

Technology Derailed

Railways are leaving themselves at risk of dangerous hacking—and they know it.

Bryce Emley

Science & Nature, War & Security

Weaponizing Syria’s Water

For anti-Assad rebels, a southern spring has become a kind of suicide bomb.

Alisa Reznick

Politics, War & Security

In San Bernardino, a Crime—Not an Act of War

The massacre led immediately to national security fantasies.

Joseph Margulies

Global Justice, War & Security

Paris in Terror

The history of terrorism in France offers lessons in how best to respond to the Paris attacks.

Julian Bourg

Global Justice, Politics

America’s Refugee Debt

It is time for the United States to take responsibility for the war it encouraged in Syria.

Aziz Z. Huq

Politics, War & Security

Assassinating Terrorists Does Not Work

It creates more violent terrorists and leaves no one who can talk peace

Alex de Waal

Global Justice, Politics

Half a Loaf

In Israel and Palestine, two states are still better than one.

Assaf Sharon

Global Justice, Philosophy & Religion

The Growing Orthodox Threat to Israeli Democracy

It is becoming impossible to ignore the growing theocratic elements in a nation that sees itself as the only democracy in the Middle East.

Elad Uzan

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