The new film about Robert Oppenheimer leaves out some important facts and context.
Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Nuclear-Industrial Complex
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Robert Oppenheimer’s Tragedy―and Ours
The new movie by Christopher Nolan puts the nuclear threat front and center.
America vs. the Supreme Court
According to the Supreme Court, America’s not back but backwards.
Dwight Was Right: Congress Must Say No to Military Contractors
The world Eisenhower warned about has materialized. We need more members of Congress to stand up to the arms industry and fight for social investments instead.
Why I Crashed the White House’s Garden Party for Narendra Modi
The White House’s embrace of the Indian leader is normalizing fascism in the world’s most populous country — and in the U.S. as well.
Why We Need a Woke Military
A strategically effective military must commit to being socially responsible in order to align itself with its own professed values.
How Contractor CEOs Get Rich Off Taxpayers
Enormous Pentagon budgets are also inflating CEO pay at major military contractors. Here’s how to rein in this taxpayer-funded excess.
Living on a Smoke-Bomb of a Planet
Will humanity react to the climate emergency as ineptly as the United States did to 9/11?
Greening Transatlantic Relations
Europe and the United States have to stop competing and start cooperating to avert climate catastrophe.
The Real Border Surge
As Title 42 comes to an end, the border-industrial complex intensifies.