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

Trump's clemencies were not just to exonerate three trigger-pullers, but to excuse all Americans.

Trump’s hasty troop withdrawal could trigger a second "industrial revolution" in terrorism.

Trump's withdrawal from Syria is consistent with his predecessors' treatment of the ethnic minority as a geopolitical pawn.

Samantha Power did not set out to justify war.

After another two nights of Democratic debates, the 2020 field has spent little time on some of the presidency's most consequential challenges.

There's a widening gap between Washington's bipartisan militarism and veterans' bipartisan war-skepticism.

With "electability" dominating the 2020 debate, the Vermont independent reminds Democrats of the frontrunner's long, controversial record.

The case against American military supremacy

How the United States reinvented empire

All that talk about "reclaiming" congressional war powers? Historically, Congress has applauded presidential wars.

A study looking at two very similar Tunisian towns, one with union activity and one without, has yielded an interesting idea.

What arguments for a more humane approach to war conceal

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.

How the NRA sells guns in America today

What Dave Eggers misses in his story of a Yemeni-American man’s rise

How Donald Trump's hands-off approach to Saudi Arabia squanders the U.S.'s leverage in the Middle East