March 24, 2016With the end of the draft came the end of America's citizen-soldier tradition. The new, all-volunteer military is far more powerful, far less accountable and far more dangerous.
March 21, 2016The American people will be footing the bill — but, by and large, they haven't heard much about our country's planned trillion-dollar nuclear weapons upgrade.
February 26, 2016The last 15 years demonstrate that no matter the military strength at your command, war no longer translates into power.
January 25, 2016It’s no coincidence that Trump, the candidate least in need of money or media attention, has been the biggest critic of America's wars.
January 20, 2016Fifty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Grady Flores will serve six months for photographing a protest of an airfield in upstate New York where drone pilots are trained and from where missions are carried out.
January 13, 2016Focusing merely on mass shootings or the passing of gun legislation does not get to the root of the systemic forces that produced the United State's love affair with violence.
January 11, 2016Why “collateral damage” elicits so little empathy among Americans.
January 6, 2016A new book further explores the "red thread" that connects the war on terror, the militarization of America's foreign policy, rising inequality and the dysfunction that plagues our government.
December 23, 2015As once again politicians seek to unleash the dogs of war, a one-man play recalls the brief holiday truce that marked the first year of World War I.
December 4, 2015Wars are never quick, cheap or easy: let's acknowledge what a full-scale war in the Middle East would actually mean.
