Tactical critiques of the war's conduct are a distraction from U.S. imperialism.

Have efforts to conduct war more humanely in fact only perpetuated it?

Drone attacks were sold to the American people as a way to limit U.S. involvement in Pakistan. In reality, U.S. empire has only continued to exert influence.

Far from a relic of the past, September 11 continues to normalize state-sanctioned barbarity.

The U.S. occupation of Afghanistan sacrificed politics—the only viable route to peace—for massive corruption and violence.

From drone strikes to counterinsurgency efforts, the work of the late historian Nasser Hussain highlights the importance of understanding the mechanics of the War on Terror, not just its effects.

While Japanese and U.S. officials celebrate a demilitatization in the pacific islands, Okinawans protest persistent military colonialism.

Seventy years after the civil preparedness film Duck and Cover, it is long past time to reckon with the way white supremacy shaped U.S. nuclear defense efforts during the Cold War.

The country has manipulated rules of engagement to serve its colonialist project in Palestine.

Watch our release of documentary short The Rifleman on the NRA. Then read an interview with filmmaker Sierra Pettengill and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.

Failures in prosecuting the businessmen who profited from the Nazi war machine show just how far postwar Europe and America were willing to go in the Cold War quest to protect capitalism.

West German witchcraft trials after World War II reveal how political rupture can fuel magical thinking.

U.S. political elites sold the United Nations to the public as a route to global peace. In reality they wanted it as a cover for militarization.

The explosion was only the latest tragedy in the city’s long decline.

In the wake of the devastating explosion, civil society has shown the way forward—filling the void of a nonexistent and incapacitated state.

A just international order will have to dispense with the presumption that the United States must remain the benevolent center of global politics.

Internationalists are plotting their return, but they still haven’t learned from the failure of liberal universalism.

On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, it is clear that white supremacy sustains the U.S. nuclear arsenal. 

The link between modern policing and the U.S. national security state means they will have to be democratized together.

The assumption that only the United States can lead the free world increasingly looks imperiled. What would foreign policy look like without it?

Counterterrorism largely ensnares people of color.