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Adam Weinstein

Adam Weinstein was the national security editor for The New Republic. He previously edited for Task & Purpose, Mother Jones, and The Wall Street Journal.

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January 6, 2020
Adam Weinstein
Mike Pompeo Is the Most Dangerous Man in the World Right Now
The Soleimani assassination and its aftermath suggest that America's top diplomat is really the viceroy of its national security establishment.
January 3, 2020
Adam Weinstein
The Pinnacle of Trump’s Foreign Policy Stupidity
The fatal strike against Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani has destabilized the world, endangered Americans, and thrilled Republican war hawks.
October 28, 2019
Adam Weinstein
“Blood for Oil” Is Official U.S. Policy Now
In celebrating the death of ISIS's leader, Trump shared his vision of America's goal in the Middle East: loot and plunder.
October 14, 2019
Adam Weinstein
The Madman Has No Clothes
Since Nixon, presidential pundits and sycophants have tried to rationalize executive insanity. But no one was prepared for Trump’s Syria madness.
October 7, 2019
Adam Weinstein
America Is Screwing the Kurds Yet Again
Trump's withdrawal from Syria is consistent with his predecessors' treatment of the ethnic minority as a geopolitical pawn.
September 17, 2019
Adam Weinstein
Edward Snowden’s Novel Makeover
How a fiction writer transformed the NSA whistleblower into a tragic hero
September 16, 2019
Adam Weinstein
The Curse of Osama Bin Laden
Why can’t the United States quit Saudi Arabia?
September 10, 2019
Adam Weinstein
Firing John Bolton Doesn’t Make Trump a Pacifist
Neoconservative hawkishness may be on its way out, but that doesn’t make the president's foreign policy less dangerous.
July 12, 2019
Adam Weinstein
Most Veterans Say America’s Wars Are a Waste. No One’s Listening to Them.
There's a widening gap between Washington's bipartisan militarism and veterans' bipartisan war-skepticism.
July 10, 2019
Adam Weinstein
It’s Plainly Obvious That Donald Trump Has No Iran Policy
His dim tweets and rash threats have pinned the U.S. in a corner with Tehran.
June 25, 2019
Adam Weinstein
Beto O’Rourke’s “War Tax” Is Classic Democratic Militarism
There's nothing progressive about distilling war's ravages down to a half-baked, Adam Smith–style exercise in taxpayer burden-sharing.
June 18, 2019
Adam Weinstein
Who Is Actually Running the U.S. Military’s Iran Efforts?
As tensions rise, an unprecedented military briefing by a hawkish secretary of state throws the chain of command into doubt.
June 4, 2019
Adrian Bonenberger, Adam Weinstein
The Sum of All Beards
How did facial hair win American men’s hearts and minds? Thank the war on terror.
May 20, 2019
Adam Weinstein
Who Actually Wants War Criminals Pardoned?
Trump's plan to free white service members accused of overseas atrocities both typifies and strengthens his Fox News feedback loop.

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