The War at Home But Without Debt, Who Will Fight Our Wars? Usually politicians deny that there's a Poverty Draft in the "All-Volunteer Military." But even a meager amount of student-debt forgiveness has the mask flying off.
Afghanistan The War on Terror Isn't Over, According to Biden's Justice Dept. Edited by Sam Thielman SINCE THE U.S. MILITARY departed Afghanistan a year ago, the Justice Department under President Biden has asserted in at least four cases that the end of that war has no bearing on the broader War on Terror. Crucially, these are the cases of four people
Comics WALLER VS. WILDSTORM Is The REIGN OF TERROR of Comics In November, DC Comics will publish a book I wrote along with my friend Evan Narcisse and drawn by the brilliant Eric Battle. I can't wait for you to see this dream of mine come true.
The War at Home When Reactionaries Fight Alphabet Boys For socialists, FBI vs MAGA looks like an Iran-Iraq War, as those that work forces face hostility from those that burn crosses. But if MAGA doesn't actually start shooting, history suggests a detente
Substack Retaliates Against FOREVER WARS Editor Spencer took the newsletter off Substack when his contract ended. They got mad at the blog post explaining why and took away Sam’s freelance gigs because he…edited it
Afghanistan First Impressions on the Execution of Ayman al-Zawahiri Like Obama with Osama bin Laden, Biden did not portray Zawahiri's death as an end to the War on Terror, but instead as a kind of a kind of proof of concept. But what did it prove, and what is the concept?
The Ghost Era of FOREVER WARS Begins FOREVER WARS is no longer a Substack. PLUS: Biden's Mideast apology tour. AND FINALLY: merch!
Chromium Cover Forever Wars #100 That's how many editions Sam and I produced in the past 52 weeks. Time for some anniversary journalism. Like all anniversary journalism, this edition will be lazy.
Newsletter United Nations Warns of Yemen's Next Disaster As President Biden attempts to reset relations with Riyadh, the U.N. details the limits of the ceasefire in Yemen—and says it's "about to get much worse."
Newsletter Matt Bors' JUSTICE WARRIORS Puts Comics in an Illegal Chokehold The GOAT political cartoonist talks to FOREVER WARS about bringing his critique of our collapsing society to comic books, the medium he was born to work in. Sorry to Mr. Gotcha.
Part of How They Took Away Your Bodily Autonomy Was Through Terrorism Bombings, arsons, assassinations. Stalkings, clinic invasions. Assaults, bomb threats. Finally, Supreme Court justices.
Newsletter Eric Greitens' Death Squad Politics An accused rapist who trades on his Navy SEAL credentials fantasizes about a violent purge. He likes boasting that the cops are with him. Haha, j/k…unless..?
Newsletter Few of The President's Men A bitter irony of the January 6 Committee is that it's paving a road to rehab for Constitutional vandals like Bill Barr.
Newsletter The Summertime FOREVER WARS Work Slowdown Honestly? It's getting hot out and this newsletter is bleak. Let's take some deep breaths
Newsletter You Guys Actually Worship Cthulhu The SBC has pledged to handle their accusers with "Christlike compassion." In a moment when they must repent and pay restitution, they still see themselves in Jesus' sandals.
Newsletter What America Does Abroad Is What America Does at Home Human life means nothing to America, domestically or internationally. We who live here will simply have to overcome America for the sake of those who can't. Not great
Newsletter Civil Libertarian Opposition To New Domestic-Terrorism Bill Weakens The Buffalo attack has given new life to a Democratic bill establishing domestic counterterrorism offices within DHS, DOJ and the FBI. The ACLU and others no longer oppose it.
Newsletter Basketball Is Broken After a second consecutive semifinals loss, a Sixers fan loses faith in the Process—in more ways than one.
Newsletter When Terrorism Is White, As It So Often Is Don't go looking for consistency in the application of counterterrorism. The only relevant consistency is America's tolerance of white terrorism, terror as American as apple pie.
Newsletter Democrats must make abortion the center of their politics Conservative Christians rewrote history so they could tell each other their whole religion hinged on abortion. It doesn’t, but the fundamental rights of laborers absolutely do.
Newsletter Who Becomes A "Terrorist" in Post-Roe America? The fusion centers that DHS set up early in the War on Terror can be used to police your uterus. No federal abortion ban necessary.
Newsletter Despair Is Premature And Rage Is Insufficient When the country that considers itself the definition of freedom takes away the most basic freedom of more than half its people, the only response is to resist until the end.
Newsletter The Defense Industry Is Winning in Ukraine I know, big surprise. But this stuff is worth tracking, especially as the war bogs down.
Newsletter NSA Gives $10 Billion Contract To Company With Ex-NSA Director on Its Board I simply do not know how Amazon, which entirely coincidentally put Ret. Gen. Keith Alexander on the same board as Jeff Bezos, swung this one. PLUS: Neal Adams, RIP.
