All Commentaries
Nuclear Disarmament and Ronald Reagan: “Trust, But Verify”
To hawks, verification is another hammer with which to bludgeon disarmament.
“In Deep Atrophy”: America’s Nukes — or Conservatives’ Brains?
How the modernization of nuclear weapons can lead to testing them.
The U.S. Is Deporting Cambodian Refugees and Orphaning Their Children
In the United States, whose bombing of Cambodia paved the way for the Khmer Rouge, many refugees now face the prospect of deportation under a draconian U.S. immigration regime.
Buddhism and Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar
Buddhist monks in Myanmar rival Islamist extremists in their intolerance.
We All Have Nuclear Stories of Our Own
The Bomb has been taken down a peg from its status as the existential threat to sharing that title with climate change and the economy.
One Nation Under SWAT
The Pentagon is distributing weaponry and equipment made for U.S. counterinsurgency campaigns abroad to police who patrol American streets.
The Hungarian Horseradish
Hungarians take pride in the often hermetic nature of their culture, but can be prone to slighting outside influences.
The U.S. Is Still Funding Oppression in Egypt
It’s been a year since the Egyptian military committed the worst massacre in modern Egypt’s history. Why does the U.S. continue to fund it?
Rise of ISIS Downfall of Maliki
Iraq Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has driven Sunnis into the arms of ISIS.
Bombing the Caliphate
U.S. airstrikes are just the kind of outside force that will keep ISIS strong and unified.