America Is Screwing the Kurds Yet Again
Trump's withdrawal from Syria is consistent with his predecessors' treatment of the ethnic minority as a geopolitical pawn.
Iraq
The Fog of Intervention
Samantha Power did not set out to justify war.
Let’s Get Into a Fight About Foreign Policy
After another two nights of Democratic debates, the 2020 field has spent little time on some of the presidency's most consequential challenges.
Most Veterans Say America’s Wars Are a Waste. No One’s Listening to Them.
There's a widening gap between Washington's bipartisan militarism and veterans' bipartisan war-skepticism.
Bernie Sanders Sets His Sights on Biden
With "electability" dominating the 2020 debate, the Vermont independent reminds Democrats of the frontrunner's long, controversial record.
How to End Endless War
The case against American military supremacy
Off the Map
How the United States reinvented empire
It Will Take More Than Congress to Cure America’s War Addiction
All that talk about "reclaiming" congressional war powers? Historically, Congress has applauded presidential wars.
Could Unions Help Defeat ISIS?
A study looking at two very similar Tunisian towns, one with union activity and one without, has yielded an interesting idea.
A War Without Civilian Deaths?
What arguments for a more humane approach to war conceal
The British Museum’s ‘Looting’ Problem
The venerable museum has "given back" some stolen Iraqi antiquities, but that does not mean it's ready to atone for its colonial-era sins.
Fear
How the NRA sells guns in America today
A Model Businessman
What Dave Eggers misses in his story of a Yemeni-American man’s rise
The Passive Foreign Policy President
How Donald Trump's hands-off approach to Saudi Arabia squanders the U.S.'s leverage in the Middle East
Donald Trump Is the New George W. Bush
The rehabilitation of the worst Bush-era offenders underscores that Trump represents a continuity—not a break—with the past.
A Surreal Story from Baghdad
Ahmed Saadawi’s brilliant novel imagines a monster, pieced together from the dead of Iraq's civil war.
‘This Route Doesn’t Exist on the Map’
How efforts to block refugees and asylum-seekers from Europe have only made the global migration crisis more complex and harrowing
Whose Wonderland?
Lisa Halliday’s "Asymmetry" presents two worlds in deeply ironic tension.
Trump’s Middle East Policy: The Good(ish), the Bad, and the Ugly
A look back at what the administration has accomplished in the region in the past year
The Real John Kelly
His freewheeling press conference yesterday proved that there are no adults in the room.
