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Politics, War & Security

The Conceit of American Indispensability

As both politicians and historians mine the 1940s for alternate visions of international order, we must guard against the presumption that the United States remains the benevolent center of global politics.

Sam Klug

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War & Security

War & Security

Bosnia and Syria: Intervention Then and Now

When state order collapses, every confessional or ethnic group asks one question: Who will protect us now?

Michael Ignatieff

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

Empire's Wasteland

The cause of Camus's native countrymen moved him, yet he yearned helplessly toward the European culture that had formed him.

Vivian Gornick

Global Justice, War & Security

The Cost of Our Drone War in Pakistan

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed discusses the findings of his research into U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan and their effects on the region.

Wajahat Ali

Global Justice, Politics

Iran's Olive Branch

Hassan Rouhani’s presidential election creates an opportunity for negotiations with Iran. President Obama should seize it.

Akbar Ganji

Politics, War & Security

War Without Strategy

Two new books by investigative journalists reveal how the United States relies on drones to make up for its lack of coherent policy in the war on terrorism.

Jonathan Hafetz

Class & Inequality, War & Security

A Costly Defense

Sequestration won’t gut the military

Cindy Williams

Politics, War & Security

Rethinking the War on Terror

President Obama’s speech on counterterrorism strategy fell short on substance.

Elizabeth Goitein, Faiza Patel

Law & Justice, War & Security

Martial Flaw

Republican hawks think Tsarnaev should have been held as an enemy combatant. Their views are wrong and dangerous.

Elizabeth Goitein

Arts in Society, War & Security

The Price of Vengeance

Settling the Cinematic Torture Debate

Alan A. Stone

Forum

Discussion: War Is Betrayal, Redux

Any story of war is a story of elites preying on the weak, the gullible, the marginal, the poor.

Chris Hedges

Global Justice, Politics

How Not to Talk about Gaza

Talking about Gaza is like talking about God. We face the ineffable. We cannot talk about what we see. 

Colin Dayan

War & Security

Fighting over the Same Ground

An Interview with Rajiv Chandrasekaran

David V. Johnson

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