An American century of carnage
Measuring violence in a single superpower world.
Ukraine: The refugee double standard
This war has unleashed new, overt, and cruel manifestations of racism on the continent, revealing longstanding double standards at the global level.
The war in Afghanistan is dead. Long live the war on terror?
In ending the war in Afghanistan, Biden left the door open for more “counterterrorism” — with serious implications for our foreign policy, politics, and legal system.
The threat of Bolton has receded — but not the threat of war
The national security adviser entered the Trump administration as a predictable warmonger with an unslakable thirst for power. He streamlined the national...
Protests surge globally as Gaza death toll rises to unprecedented levels
Massive protests sweep the nation as global outrage over Gaza crisis reaches fever pitch.
100+ days into Israel’s war on Gaza, doctors demand ceasefire to address ‘apocalyptic’ health...
United Nations humanitarian leaders issued a joint demand Monday for dramatically increasing the flow of aid into Gaza.
Writing History Before It Happens
With an emphasis on the U.S. national security state and its follies, Tom Engelhardt explores nine repeat headlines, each a "surefire" news story guaranteed to appear sometime in the U.S. news stream between June 2015 and the unknown future.
Dangerous provocations: North Korea’s missiles and the risk of war
The Korean conflict is much more nuanced than the black and white way it’s usually presented.
Who’s in control of how we remember the Iraq War?
“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.” --Viet Thanh Nguyen
Second IDF attack in Rafah kills 21 amid global outrage over initial massacre
As international condemnation grows over the IDF's bombing of a Rafah refugee camp that killed 45, another strike claims the lives of 21 more, intensifying calls for an end to the violence.