Harry Blain
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June 10, 2020
The American war machine has always been integral to American racism. It's time to tear it down along with those Confederate statues.
April 8, 2020
When history finally conducts an autopsy into this horrendous pandemic, the national security state that failed to protect us cannot emerge unscathed.
January 9, 2020
By any measure, the War Powers Act has failed to constrain presidential warmaking. A simpler step would be to stop funding wars.
December 10, 2019
Impeachment may be necessary, even noble. Yet we don’t need to merely restore our political order — we need to overturn it.
October 28, 2019
Lower courts are slowly but steadily eroding the legal basis for some of the most reactionary war on terror policies.
August 21, 2019
There’s a strong argument to shift law enforcement resources from Muslim organizations to domestic white terrorists — but expanding the war on terror is a riskier proposition.
July 24, 2019
The affinity between Trump and Netanyahu is more than personal. It's rooted in a shared fantasy of a perfectly homogeneous society.
July 1, 2019
When human beings are framed as a national security threat, barbed wire is the next logical step. But unlike during the Japanese internment, today there's high-level political resistance.
April 4, 2019
In a democracy, shouldn’t we be using peacetime laws to constrain us during war, rather than wartime laws to constrain us during (relative) peace?
February 14, 2019
It’s going to be tricky when recent agency heads are now vocal “Resistance” leaders.
