Trump's boasts and lies about the conflict with Iran perfectly encapsulate America's petty, TV-addled, and increasingly degenerate president.

Can we avoid the pitfalls of 2003 to build a broadly popular anti-war movement?

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.

The Afghanistan Papers reflect what we soldiers knew on the ground: "Victory" was always an empty talking point.

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.

Exploring lost causes and vicarious violence on the anniversary of America's first college football scrum

As Trump’s caprices build broad resistance to military engagement, the pacifist left considers how to ally with its political opponents.

As America's longest war drags on, some Beltway denizens argue that it can be sustained for decades more.

Why can’t the United States quit Saudi Arabia?

Neoconservative hawkishness may be on its way out, but that doesn’t make the president's foreign policy less dangerous.

His presidency sometimes makes historic changes possible. But his ego always torpedoes them.

Samantha Power did not set out to justify war.

An Afghanistan veteran reckons with growing up on G.I. Joe and growing tired of American war drums.

To avoid war with Iran, the president needs to haul out his Apprentice-era catchphrase.

How did facial hair win American men’s hearts and minds? Thank the war on terror.

High defense costs are one of the surest ways to hasten a great power's decline.