The War at Home Zohran Mamdani Is Right About Israel He shouldn't have had to field a question that has nothing to do with being mayor of New York. But the only scandal is the attempt to make his answer scandalous
The War at Home Stopping The Genocide of Palestinians Will Stop Attacks Like Colorado The return of 9/11 politics post-10/7 means the return of refusing to do what it actually takes to stop the cascade of violence. PLUS: The U.S. military now wargames with AI.
The War at Home The "Invasion" Lie, The Intelligence Purge and The Threat to Habeas Corpus Venezuela is not invading the United States. But that lie is crucial for Trump, so an Iraq War-era dream is coming true. PLUS: Floating on the East River during the Brooklyn Bridge collision
The War at Home ICE Asks the Food Service Industry To Please Oppress Itself In the absence of manpower, the agency is trying to assign its own work to the managers of the servers and line cooks it’s trying to abduct
The War at Home ICE Launches All-Out Assault on DC Businesses in Search of TV Moments for Trump The richest nation on earth is now a racist reality show for one sad old bigot
The War at Home Migrant Torture at Guantanamo Authorized by Trump Administration Memo If you haven't been to Gitmo, you might not recognize the implications of a brief reference in a recently revealed Pentagon/Homeland Security document
The War at Home Notes on The Decline And Fall of an Empire Rethinking some assumptions I had on how the United States' hegemony might collapse. Spiral out with me
The War at Home El Salvador And The Dark Lessons of Guantanamo CECOT, the Salvadoran slavery-prison now used for migrant renditions, reflects 2002-4-era Gitmo—with some updates
The War at Home Mahmoud Khalil's Detention Is A War on Terror Milestone ICE turned a campus activist for Palestine into a political prisoner. Witness a coalescence of several post-9/11 currents that threaten your most basic freedoms
The War at Home Former Guantánamo Prisoners Condemn Trump’s Order on Migrants "Guantánamo does not just allow abuse; it ensures cruelty," write sixteen people who know the real Guantánamo, not the propaganda
The War at Home Elon Musk and The Security State's Uvalde Moment “We have a Constitutional crisis, period," says NSA whistleblower Tom Drake, who can't help but notice how the three-letter agencies that went after him aren't stopping this.
The War at Home Trump’s Guantánamo Expansion for Migrants Reopens Old Wounds The facility’s long reputation for sadism must mean its closing
The War at Home The Wages of Leaving Guantanamo Open Have Arrived It was always going to be a matter of time until someone filled it up again. Know your rights
The War at Home The CIA Bends The Knee To Trump The agency’s new take on COVID-19's origin won't be the last time it alters its product to please him. PLUS: Warrantless 'backdoor’ searches under Section 702 ruled unconstitutional!
The War at Home Mass Deportation’s War-on-Terror DNA Get ready for the deportation task forces, the expansion of for-profit cages, and Muslim Ban 3.0. PLUS! RIP to whatever remained of the Anti-Defamation League's credibility!
The War at Home Houston's Muslims Are Not to Blame for the New Orleans Attack When the killer is a Muslim, too much journalism retreats to a disgraceful 9/11-era template of collective responsibility. Enough
The War at Home Exiting Luigi’s Mansion A young man murdered a healthcare CEO. A lot of people are pretending to be confused about it
The War at Home Check To See What Apps Your iPhone Is Training AI On And here's a step-by-step guide to disabling them. FOREVER WARS does some News You Can Use
The War at Home Biden's AI Spying Rules Are A Last Gift of Power To Trump Seems like a bad idea to introduce artificial intelligence into surveillance while the next president focuses on retribution. But Great Power Competition wills it
The War at Home The Most Dangerous Domestic Antiterrorism Bill Since The PATRIOT Act A bill to designate nonprofits "terrorist supporting organizations" failed this week. It'll be back soon, writes Darryl Li
Paid-members only The War at Home The War on Terror Comes To Defund Left & Liberal Nonprofits And here's the turn of the ratchet to begin the Second Trump Era: using "support for terrorism" to get rid of tax exemptions for organizations that oppose his agenda
The War at Home Confessions of A Poll Worker Here's what FOREVER WARS’ editor saw as a poll worker in his own pro-Trump part of Brooklyn
The War at Home Live Tonight in NYC: Ackerman, Berry & Wertheim We'll be speaking at a Jewish Currents forum on the 2024 election & U.S. foreign policy at the McNally-Jackson bookstore's South Street Seaport location
The War at Home The Dogs Of The Oligarchs Snarl at Springfield's Haitians J.D. Vance acknowledges he was lying. For the fascist, the truth is never the point—usefulness is. But solidarity is stronger than its enemies
Paid-members only The War at Home Why Ammar al-Baluchi Turned Down The Guantanamo Plea Deal Three of the accused 9/11 conspirators have accepted a bargain that saves their lives. One of them turned it down. His lawyers tell FOREVER WARS why