Evil Empire

What does it mean to live in a world in which history has rusted under the monstrous weight of the permanent now?

The Cold War says more about how U.S. elites imagined their “freedom” than it does about enabling other people to be free.

How the New International Economic Order of the 1970s is inspiring a new generation of struggle against global inequality.

An interview with Arundhati Roy on censorship, storytelling, and her problem with the term "postcolonialism."

The violent theft of land and capital is at the core of the U.S. experiment: the U.S. military got its start in the wars against Native Americans.

Territory is not as important as it used to be.

In the 1990s, Puerto Rico showed Washington how militarized policing and privatization can extract profits from poor people of color.

Wajahat Ali speaks with Pankaj Mishra on the devastating consequences of Western imperialism, globalization, and capitalism and the fate of liberal democracy.

It reflects, like a funhouse mirror, a twisted image of U.S. imperialism.

Trump’s Space Force is a bad reboot of the old imperial fantasy of control from above.

“Agent Probii’s first days as undercover agent were particularly disconcerting because within the city each resident spoke a different language.”