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February 24, 2022
With Violence, America Reaps What It Sows
The hum of the continuing violence embedded in this country’s war-making structure is so constant that most of us don’t even notice or question it.
Kelly Denton-Borhaug
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February 17, 2022
America’s Disastrous 60-Year War
Most Americans simply take it for granted that war, or threats of war, having defined our immediate past, will define our future as well.
William Astore
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February 14, 2022
Biden Is Fine With Mass Civilian Death
The hoarding of Afghanistan’s foreign reserves is a striking example of the administration’s capacity for brutality.
Chris Gelardi
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February 9, 2022
We Still Need an Anti-War Movement
The lack of active opposition to endless wars isn’t a new normal, but something like the old normal.
Nan Levinson
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February 1, 2022
Turkey Helps ISIS Attack Rojava
The Kurdish people have sacrificed 13,000 lives in the fight against ISIS. Progressives should support their effort to build a secure base for direct democracy, feminism, and pluralism.
Meredith Tax
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January 31, 2022
While Afghans Tried to Flee, Boris Johnson… Saved Dogs?
Leaked e-mails suggest the British PM OK’d the evacuation of rescue pets from Afghanistan last August—and they speak volumes about the occupation.
Ali M. Latifi
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January 27, 2022
Are We Any Closer to Shutting Down Guantánamo?
In the legal quagmire the US has created, there is no easy answer.
Karen J. Greenberg
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January 25, 2022
What We Miss When We Say a War Has “Ended”
Bringing to light the kinship among American wars—and, by extension, their true significance—requires situating them in a single historical framework.
Andrew J. Bacevich
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January 11, 2022
Guantánamo Is Still “a Black Hole of Secrecy”
Twenty years have passed since the first prisoners landed blindfolded in orange jumpsuits and were caged in the US-run enclave—and press restrictions at Gitmo are only getting worse
Clair MacDougall
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January 11, 2022
This Is the Unbuilding of America
We’ve long inhabited a perilous world—one that has only grown more so as the decades have passed.
Tom Engelhardt