Space aliens are having a moment in America, thanks to the Blink-182 frontman’s E.T.-hunting A-team. But what’s his real plan?

The State Department, a conservative-connected shell company, and a key Kurdish crime family team up to siphon Syrian oil for U.S. investors.

The “war on coronavirus” is lost. It's time for new pandemic metaphors—and a radically new culture of care.

A story of Iraqi politics, Pentagon oil contracts, and an ongoing foreign policy disaster

The authoritarian tactics we’ve exported around the world in the name of national security are now being deployed in Portland.

There are alternatives to America’s heavy-handed attempts at “helping” the region. It’s time to pursue them.

A post-9/11 veteran novelist explores a post-Vietnam literary soiree gone bad, and finds timeless lessons about a contentious and still-evolving genre.

A Confederate-friendly Trump appointee and an involuntary Juneteenth dress-up are just the latest in a long history of indignities for black veterans and caregivers.

Trump, Ron DeSantis, and Betsy DeVos are willing to sacrifice thousands of American lives for nothing more than political points.

Anti-imperialist leftists can’t afford to cede this issue to centrist Democrats and the Trumpist right.

Corporations are bending to popular will over racism and police violence in the U.S. But do they care about China’s ethnic cleansing of Muslims?

The Trump presidency has been a literal call to arms for excitable whites who view nonwhite people as inherent threats.

It’s one of the largest military bases on earth. And since it opened, Fort Benning has been a monument to white supremacy.

Confronting the militarized response to protests in the United States requires a reckoning with our foreign policy.

Police have adopted the same fundamental societal outlook as gun rights advocates: Arms are synonymous with law and order.

What “Defund the Police” can learn from the six-decade effort to radically demilitarize U.S. foreign policy

Ron DeSantis is the latest in a long line of Republicans who made the state a plutocratic dystopia. Now he’s letting its residents die to save the plutocrats.

Mark Milley apologized for his photo op with Trump, but not for the violence he visited on American protesters.

Twenty percent of cops are military veterans—and some are fighting to rid policing of fear-based training and a testosterone-fueled culture.

The U.S. has historically chosen war to address all kinds of problems: terror, drugs, unfriendly countries. This time is different.