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Militarism

War & Security

Watching the End of the World

The Doomsday Clock is set to two minutes to midnight—the same position it held in 1953, when the United States and USSR detonated their first hydrogen bombs. So why don't we make movies about nuclear war anymore? 

Stephen Phelan

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

Race

What White Supremacists Know

The violent theft of land and capital is at the core of the U.S. experiment: the U.S. military got its start in the wars against Native Americans.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

War & Security

Peace Regimes

Trump has promised a Korean "peace regime." But whose peace is being insured? And who is subject to its imposition? 

Jessie Kindig

War & Security

What Did Trump's Strike Against Syria Actually Accomplish?

To understand Russian and U.S. strategies, you have to read between the lines.

Thomas Graham, Rajan Menon

Law & Justice

The “Active Shooter” Is the State

Moving from liberal gun reform to a truly radical movement will require us to make the connection between interpersonal violence and state violence.

Judith Levine

Race

Against National Security Citizenship

Support for the U.S. military has long been seen as a crucial way for black Americans and immigrants to show that they “belong.”

Aziz Rana

Law & Justice, Science & Nature

For American Corporations, Winning Is Not Enough

Standing Rock shows us that businesses don't simply silence protestors, they also discredit and bankrupt them.

Lauren Carasik

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

Myths of American exceptionalism.

Howard Zinn

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