Why the independence movement, not statehood, is the future of the island’s liberation

John Mearsheimer and other foreign policy figures are treating Russia’s invasion of Ukraine like a game of Risk.

What turned Smedley Butler into a critic of American foreign policy?

How the turn toward “precision” combat promoted endless war

The documentarian returns with an urgent argument about imperial violence—and what it means for America now.

Long before Southern Democrats filibustered Civil Rights legislation, “filibusteros” were conquering slave territories for the United States.

How a Republican presidential candidate became a leading critic of empire

The U.S. has to rethink its role in an era of ecological disaster.

Confronting the ugly legacy of military prostitution in South Korea

The Amazon show is a plea to set democracy aside and let national security experts run the world.

What the author of "If—" learned about empire from the United States

Yoram Hazony has written the closest thing to a manifesto for intellectuals on the right.

The author of Hiroshima showed the world the realities of American power.

How the United States reinvented empire

A new policy in India displays imperialism's disastrous aftershocks—but also the way in which legal language is increasingly used, around the globe, to mask what is in fact ethnic cleansing.

A new biography of the prolific collector Hans Sloane sheds light on the institution’s deep complicity with imperialism and plantation money.

For Robert D. Kaplan, there's nothing imperialism can't fix—except for all the problems it creates.

On Syria, the left has forgotten its history

The incoherence of the British Empire