The Afghanistan Papers reflect what we soldiers knew on the ground: "Victory" was always an empty talking point.

The night I partied with the now-disgraced congressman, I learned brazenness and entitlement might have been his best qualities.

Believe what you're seeing: Donald Trump wants a brutal, lawless, loyal military.

As progressives scrutinize Elizabeth Warren's bona fides, her "Green New Military" plan raises hackles of climate activists on the left.

A newly released trove of Iranian intelligence communiqués demonstrates the deeper folly of U.S. adventurism in the Middle East.

Trump's clemencies were not just to exonerate three trigger-pullers, but to excuse all Americans.

The president is shaking down Tokyo and Seoul for billions more in security aid, and testing the foundations of U.S. alliances in Asia.

Armed with the VA's list of discounts and deals, one vet tried to turn the tables and consume this holiday that was consuming him, year after year.

An Afghanistan veteran's struggle with ecology and memory

As an impeachment crisis looms, CIA and FBI veterans are taking a troubling lead in opposing Trump at the ballot box.

Exploring lost causes and vicarious violence on the anniversary of America's first college football scrum

The Trump administration is poised to kill another useful treaty that contributes to trans-Atlantic peace.

The progressive pro-Israel group has gone from outsider to political kingmaker—and a target for left-wing activists.

The U.S. didn't give its NATO ally many advance details on the raid that killed the ISIS leader. There may be a good reason why.

50 years after the first ARPANET message, pop culture still views connectivity as disconnected from the political worldview that produced it.

In celebrating the death of ISIS's leader, Trump shared his vision of America's goal in the Middle East: loot and plunder.

While coverage has focused on the plight of Kurds, more Syrian locals and NGO workers face arrest and torture in the vacuum Trump created.

Trump’s hasty troop withdrawal could trigger a second "industrial revolution" in terrorism.

How a right-wing conspiracy blossomed in the pre-internet age

The best time to get atomic weapons out was several years ago. The second best time is now.