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We Need to Get Our Economic Facts Straight

February 8, 2013 | Group Think

The economist says American politicians have some delusions that need to be sorted out.

Smoke rises from the building of Kabul traffic police headquarters during insurgents' attack, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. Taliban insurgents wearing suicide vests attacked the headquarters before dawn Monday, police said, and eyewitnesses heard numerous explosions while a gun battle was still raging nearly four hours later. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

Counting Down to 2014 in Afghanistan

January 28, 2013 | Perspectives

Afghans feel that one of three undesirable scenarios will unfold once the U.S. withdraws from their country: Compromise, conflict, or collapse

Scene from the Oscar-nominated film Zero Dark Thirty

Learning to Love Torture, Zero Dark Thirty-Style

January 10, 2013 | Perspectives

Seven easy, onscreen steps to making U.S. torture and detention policies once again palatable. Continue reading

Tom Engelhardt. Photo credit: Dale Robbins

The Windowless Room of the Current Event

December 19, 2012 | Group Think

The real reporting crisis involves the inability of the mainstream to connect the dots, almost any dots, or display any kind of historical memory, or include in its daily reporting the sort of information that would make real sense of the “news.” MORE

A Failed Formula for Worldwide War

October 25, 2012

An excerpt from Nick Turse’s book on the American military’s next steps after two wars in the Middle East and an attempt to modernize. Continue reading

“It’s Foreign Policy, Stupid!”

October 11, 2012 | Cartoons

Mark Fiore takes aim at the presidential candidates’ strikingly similar foreign policy positions. Continue reading

A Soldier’s Letter to his Congressman

October 5, 2012

In June, Staff Sergeant Matthew S. Sitton emailed his congressman expressing concern about the conditions that he and his soldiers were serving in. In August, Sitton was killed by an IED.

Bill Moyers Essay: Honoring a Fallen Soldier’s Plea

October 4, 2012

Bill shares the story of a young U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan, arguing it’s time our presidential candidates decisively address the price of our presence there. Continue reading

Full Show: What It’s Like to Go to War

July 27, 2012 | Moyers & Company

Bill talks to Vietnam veteran and author Karl Marlantes about what we need to understand about the minds and hearts of our modern warriors. Continue reading