Israel’s two leading parties spent the campaign jostling over who can carry out war crimes against Palestinians more aggressively.
The Israeli Election Put the Bigotry of Its Political Class Front and Center
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War & Peace
Diego Garcia: The “Unsinkable Carrier” Springs a Leak
A court ruling against colonial exploitation could threaten a strategic U.S. military base in the Indian Ocean. Indigenous advocates say it’s about time.
Bolton and Pompeo Are Steering Trump Toward War with Iran
There are no upsides to the recent designation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization — unless you’re trying to provoke a war.
World Gives America One Year to Stop Trump or Face Sanctions
[Satire] UN: “We recommend that Americans sentence all top-ranking officials of the Trump administration to a decade of picking up trash along America’s highways.”
For Military Contractors, Tax Day Is Pay Day
Lockheed Martin’s CEO took home $20 million while enlisted soldiers got just $20,000. Why? Because corporations have hijacked the military.
It’s Time to End U.S. Military Aid to the Philippines
U.S. taxpayer funds are bankrolling the worsening human rights crisis in the Philippines. Movements are rising to shut that aid off.
The Sun Never Sets on the Espionage Act
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?
Ayatollah Trump: The Global Rise of the Christian Right
Islamic extremism gets all the press, but Trump is just one of a growing number of Christian extremists in positions of political power.
America’s Generals Haven’t Learned Anything from Iraq
Sixteen years after the Iraq War, the Army’s official history of the war reads like a string of empty platitudes.
After Trump
Centrist liberalism is dead, and Trump is a disaster. But progressives can use what he’s done to remake America and its place in the world.