The War at Home FOREVER WARS Is Entering An Armistice Period I am pausing this newsletter until early October. Please don't cancel!
The War at Home The War on Terror Template For The Post-Charlie Kirk Crackdown Remember the last time a rabid government didn't let reality get in the way of a long-sought agenda once a crisis provided an opportunity?
The War at Home A Message to Alligator Alcatraz Detainees from A Guantánamo Survivor The Florida detention center's days may be numbered, but its model has already spread. Here's what caged migrants should remember—and what the rest of us should resist.
The War at Home Featured The National Guard's Anti-You Quick Reaction Force Trump establishes by fiat the standing army he means to tread on you. Is there an opposition party in the United States?
The War at Home James Dobson, Godfather of Child Abuse, Finally Dies The radical cleric leaves behind a legacy of sanctified torture, destroyed children and broken families.
The War at Home "Crime" And The Occupation of D.C. What is the meaning of crime? Is it Criminals Robbing Innocent Motherfuckers Everytime?
The War at Home Escape from Fear City Zohran Mamdani grew up in a New York defaced by 9/11 into a place that preyed on people like him. Now that he's wounded the predator, it will lash out against his mayoralty
The War at Home The ADL's Descent And The Trajectory of Zionism Noah Shachtman's New York Magazine piece doesn't just reveal what the ADL has become, it highlights the contradictions of Zionism as a nativist movement with elite respectability
The War at Home The Vibes Are Only Minimally Maculate Some podcast promotion. Some stuff we and others have published elsewhere. It's a summer Friday and this is what we're doing
The War at Home ICE Is Planning Mass Extraordinary Renditions When we "look forward, not back," past atrocities scale up. PLUS: Another American killed in the West Bank without consequence. AND: Anti-Zionist Superman!
The War at Home The Pipeline From Zionist Lists To ICE Arrests, Revealed Revelations this week detail the threat to free speech posed by extreme Zionist groups whose lists of "dangerous" students ICE uses to detain and deport
The War at Home Zohran Mamdani Better Get Ready To Fight The NYPD Wall Street oligarchs aren't the only ones ringing the alarm against the people's mayoral candidate. That's the sound of the police
The War at Home This Is The Beginning of The End of The 9/11 Era Capital and nativism will fight even harder against Zohran Mamdani now. But in capital's seat of power, socialism defeated barbarism. I fucking love New York
The War at Home Ceasefire Questions With Chris Hayes (VIDEO) There's no certainty here, but it's worth thinking through what comes next in the U.S./Israel-Iran War. PLUS: NYC! Rank Zohran and Brad, not Cuomo!
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.
