World military spending reached a new record high of $2.4 trillion in 2022, with the United States spending the most by far.
Creating a Hypersonic Pentagon Budget
Why is the Pentagon budget so high?
20 Years On, What Did the Iraq War Truly Cost?
The war claimed more than lives and treasure — it claimed a future’s worth of lost opportunities. Now, younger generations are demanding them back.
We Need to Cut the Military Budget, But Don’t Trust the Far Right to Do It
There’s an urgent need to stop funding wars and human rights abuses abroad and to free up funding for human needs at home. The Freedom Caucus can’t be counted on for either.
Going Down the Military Drain
America’s costly, dysfunctional approach to security is making us ever less safe.
Congress Has No Business Shoveling Another $858 Billion Into the Military Industrial Complex
The Pentagon just failed its fifth audit in as many years. After 20 years of war, there are better ways to spend tax dollars than on an agency that can’t even account for half of its assets.
The Urgent Climate Case for Defunding the Pentagon
U.S. taxpayers will spend more on the military — the largest institutional polluter on the planet — in one year than on renewable energy over 10 years.
About That $900 You Gave Pentagon Contractors
This tax season, I’d rather fund green jobs and disease control than jets that spontaneously combust. Wouldn’t you?
Binary Thinking on Russia’s War on Ukraine Is a Losing Strategy
We need a progressive politics that shows solidarity with all victims of military violence — while resisting the militarism of our own government.
Washington Should Think Twice Before Launching a New Cold War
First, let’s remind ourselves of the catastrophic global consequences of the last one.