There are alternatives to America’s heavy-handed attempts at “helping” the region. It’s time to pursue them.

A post-9/11 veteran novelist explores a post-Vietnam literary soiree gone bad, and finds timeless lessons about a contentious and still-evolving genre.

Twenty percent of cops are military veterans—and some are fighting to rid policing of fear-based training and a testosterone-fueled culture.

The U.S. has historically chosen war to address all kinds of problems: terror, drugs, unfriendly countries. This time is different.

Amid a global oil collapse, the military is overpaying politically connected contractors to keep its jets fueled in Iraq.

“When I arrived at the airport, I felt that hardness just ripped off. But that stayed for only two weeks. Then the coronavirus came."

The president wants to "re-open" the economy, and he's enlisting corporate America to rationalize the thousands more deaths that would ensue.

Countless lives in America, Iran, and Iraq depend on leaders’ willingness to put down the sabers and cooperate.

Hoda Muthana left the U.S. to join ISIS. Now she wants to return home to stand trial, but the Trump administration won’t let her. She is a test case for the future of birthright citizenship.

Why did the CBS program ignore a historic Afghanistan cease-fire to profile Eddie Gallagher, the Trump-pardoned Navy SEAL?

The U.S. has misused its "exorbitant" financial privilege, but American leaders should transform it, not abandon it.

Maybe they'll win one for a change.

In its laser focus on military restraint, the present debate about endless war overlooks the financial architecture of U.S. empire.

The entrepreneurial warriors' space is so saturated that a top shill now wants to make "Veteran" a brand unto itself, with a capital "V."

Other targets of Trump's strikes were “bad dudes” … as well as recipients of American payoffs in the Iraq War.

Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo, who urged Trump to kill Qassem Soleimani, are ardent proponents of Christian Zionism.

The Soleimani assassination and its aftermath suggest that America's top diplomat is really the viceroy of its national security establishment.

The fatal strike against Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani has destabilized the world, endangered Americans, and thrilled Republican war hawks.

A brother's death. An honorable discharge. And a harrowing reentry to civilian life.

A newly released trove of Iranian intelligence communiqués demonstrates the deeper folly of U.S. adventurism in the Middle East.