The War Abroad Sami al-Arian & Daniel Levy on The Return To Open War in Israel/Palestine Two wise people, a Palestinian and an Israeli, on a harrowing past few days and avoiding the horrors to come. FOREVER WARS editorializes: if you want peace, free Palestine.
Paid-members only The Nation A Deal Signed in Blood An anticipated deal between the U.S., Saudi Arabia, and Israel is set to create a new Middle Eastern order. But as Israel and Gaza return to war, will the security pact do more than entrench the violence of the status quo?
Paid-members only The War Abroad The Media's Role in 20 Years of Islamophobia Notes on a weekend in Doha and my prepared remarks to a panel discussion on Islamophobia that Georgetown University convened. PLUS: Your War on Terror news roundup
Paid-members only The Nation Atrocity Exhibition These New Yorkers want to transform the September 11 museum, but can it be anything other than a purveyor of War on Terror propaganda?
Newsletter China Says NSA Surveillance Is Intensifying As Uncle Ben once said, with great power competition comes great espionage expansions. PLUS: Egypt buys a senator; and more!
The War Abroad Anatomy of a U.S. Foreign Policy Win Ukraine gets weapons. Imran Khan gets dismissed and prosecuted. The only ones who lose are Pakistanis, and since when does the U.S. give a shit about them?
The War Abroad The Virgin Rome And The Chad Constantinople Do you think about the Roman Empire a lot? Obviously. But which Roman Empire? And which successor to the Roman Empire? PLUS: Some appearances I'm doing.
Paid-members only The War Abroad Writing Villains: A Place To Put Bad Feelings Waller Vs. Wildstorm #3, the big action issue, is in stores now! No spoilers, just notes on the catharsis of scripting people who do evil things, like "peace operations officer" Slade Wilson.
Newsletter St. Augustine's 9/11 Anniversary Lord, implored President Biden, let us "turn the page" on the War on Terror. Just not yet.
The War at Home Drones Over Brooklyn, RICO for Cop City Protesters As the Air Force pursues AI-powered drones for combat, the NYPD uses older models to spy on Caribbean Brooklyn. What starts as military tech doesn't stay as military tech. PLUS: Georgia files egregious charges against the anti-Cop City movement!
Paid-members only The Nation U.S. Foreign Policy Has an Extinction Agenda As the world loses time to act, US elites are working to dominate the remains of a ruined planet.
The War at Home Who Is And Isn't A Terrorist, January 6 Edition An Iraq combat veteran turned Proud Boy sentenced for seditious conspiracy applies the logic of 9/11 to 1/6.
The War Abroad Military Judge Rejects CIA's 'Rectal Feeding' Narrative for Post-9/11 Sexual Assault No previous judge has challenged the agency's line about what it did to 9/11-era detainees. PLUS: The absence of the U.S. military for the relief of Maui.
The War at Home Rudy Giuliani Was A Creation of The New York Media This is for every New Yorker who in the 1990s watched our local press launder a racist authoritarian mayor into someone who'd save the city from… the people who live here. He always was who he is now
Paid-members only Chromium Cover A Really Good Place To Be A Climate Refugee Ireland in August is a great place to contemplate the prospect of civilizational collapse.
Paid-members only The Nation This Is How Trump Becomes a Dictator The former president doesn’t want to destroy the security state. He wants to bend it to his will.
The War at Home Biden Goes All In On FBI/NSA Mass Surveillance The White House's final offer on surveillance reform: nothing. At least they stripped away the pretense that there's any way to fix Section 702. PLUS: Pee-Wee's last adventure
The War at Home Gillibrand And Biden Protect Troops The Military Simply Left To Be Sexually Assaulted The chain of command was never more important than the right of servicemembers not to be sexually abused. I can still hear the Pentagon saying they should never break the chain
The War at Home Mark Milley's Last Mistake This guy simply should not have been chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His final attempt to build the U.S. military of the future is gibberish.
The War Abroad CIA Story Time: From Patrice Lumumba's Assassination To Post-9/11 Torture Before his death in 2008, CIA operator Larry Devlin lamented the persecution of agency interrogators. A forthcoming book sheds light on his role overthrowing Congo's first post-colonial government.
The War Abroad The Bipartisan Parts of the Defense Bill Suck, Too House Republicans used $886 billion (!) NDAA as a pitchfork for a culture-war witchhunt. That just scratches the surface of what's wrong with this thing.
The War Abroad Babylon Makes The Rules-Based International Order You know what clarifies the difference between the U.S.' order and international law? Syria. Guidance…
The War Abroad The Foreign Policy Elite Can't Understand How They Got Us Here Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations thinks the biggest danger to the world is the United States. But he doesn't mean it in the way that's, y'know, true.
Paid-members only The Nation Affirmative Action—But Only For The Military Academies In a footnote, the Supreme Court directs Black and brown advancement into a uniform.
The War Abroad U.N.: U.S. Must 'Make Full Reparation For The Injuries Caused' by Gitmo "Without accountability, there is no moving forward on Guantánamo," said a U.N. special rapporteur, shouting a truth into the void of U.S. foreign policy.
