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  • War & Peace
    Indirect Deaths: The Massive and Unseen Costs of America’s Post-9/11 Wars at Home and Abroad
    January 25, 2021
    | Andrea Mazzarino

    "With such human costs of war in mind, it’s a wonder to me that the only bipartisan bill passed by Congress over a presidential veto in the Trump years was the recent monumentally funded $740 billion “defense” bill. Most striking to me, however, amid its massive support for the military-industrial complex, is how little that bill does to expand social support for military families."

  • War & Peace
    Patton and Westy Meet in a Bar
    September 11, 2020
    | Andrew Bacevich
    A Play of Many Parts in One Act
  • Media
    The Failed Promise of “Objective” Political Reporting
    August 3, 2020
    | Dan Froomkin

    What if the mainstream, reality-based media armed its audience with facts as emphatically and effectively as Fox News arms its audience with misinformation? What if the New York Times aggressively advocated for the truth, rather than just putting it out there for the record?

  • Democracy & Government
    How the American Century Ends
    June 19, 2020
    | Tom Engelhardt

    We are deep in the age of disappointment on (as Donald Trump has only accentuated) an increasingly disposable planet.

  • Civil Liberties
    Opinion: Why I Am Angry
    June 5, 2020
    | Jeremy Butler
    I’m a Navy officer. I’m a nonprofit CEO. I’m a black man in America.
  • Moyers on Democracy
    America’s Pandemic Role Reversal
    May 20, 2020
    | Karen J. Greenberg
    “Over There” is now “Over Here”
  • War & Peace
    How the US Paved the Way for 'Generational' War
    October 17, 2017
    | Tom Engelhardt
    By removing most Americans from the combat arena, we gained the ability to wage war forever, and damn the consequences.
  • War & Peace
    How We Learned Not to Care About America's Wars
    October 10, 2017
    | Andrew Bacevich
    We've been in full combat mode for 16 years — but who’s counting?
  • War & Peace
    Trump's Generals Have Failed Up
    September 6, 2017
    | Tom Engelhardt
    In America’s wars, failure is the new success.
  • Democracy & Government
    Remembering Conservative Publicist Victor Gold
    June 13, 2017
    The GOP stalwart took on the "holy rollers and neocons" who stole his party.


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