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Peace
January 8, 2021
MagazineJohn Patrick Leary
America’s Obsession With “Peaceful” Transitions Crashes Into Reality
The Capitol riot showed that our political system is just as frail and corruptible as any other.
August 20, 2020
Trita Parsi
The Israel-UAE Deal Puts the “Forever” in “Forever War”
What binds Israel and its new Arab allies is not the threat from Iran but the threat of the U.S. military leaving the Middle East.
June 21, 2018
MagazineBen Austen
Peace Officers
How one American city chose to tackle crime, combat racism, and reckon with the legacy of police brutality
December 15, 2015
Steven Cohen
Colombia is one step away from ending the oldest armed conflict in the Western Hemisphere.
August 1, 2014
Amy Weiss-Meyer
'I Dreamed of a Sudden Death!': Passages from Siegfried Sassoon's Diaries
The haunting private thoughts of one of the twentieth century's best known English soldiers and poets
July 28, 2014
Uzodinma Iweala
A Book By Jimmy Carter Led Me to Work for Richard Branson
'Talking Peace' provided a perspective on leadership as a combination of stubbornness, a moral compass, and an appetite for risk
July 30, 2013
Ben Birnbaum
Here's What John Kerry's Peace Settlement Will Look Like (Probably)
March 6, 2013
Efraim Halevy
The (Very) Quiet Peace Talks Between Israel and Hamas
The Middle East's storm clouds have a silver lining
July 2, 2007
Sam Tanenhaus
The End of the Journey
June 28, 2004
David Hajdu
Where Has "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" Gone
November 5, 2001
Gregg Easterbrook
The Big One
January 6, 1947
Frank Sinatra
As Sinatra Sees It
A letter-to-the-editor from Frank Sinatra to Henry A. Wallace.
October 21, 1940
Virginia Woolf
Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
October 16, 1935
The New Republic Staff
Mark Twain Said It
July 28, 1917
MagazineJohn Dewey
The Future of Pacifism
The future of the profound American desire for peace is a topic which is intimately connected with the war itself.

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