Donald Trump has resurrected the military fantasy of the “video game war,” waged mostly through high-tech, lethal air power with few US casualties. But his administration may have miscalculated the ...
Jeremy Varon is a professor of history at the New School. He is the author of Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War: The Movement to Stop the War on Terror.
Max Décharné is a London-based musician and writer. He writes regularly for the British music magazine Mojo and is the author of several books on music and cultural history, including Vulgar Tongues: ...
The affluent often blame poverty on bad budgeting skills, claiming the poor just need to be taught financial literacy. But ...
Timothée Chalamet's offhand jab at “dying” high culture sparked celebrity outrage. But without robust public investment and ...
The Trump administration has spent around $24 billion in public funds on its war against Iran so far. Here’s what that money ...
The Christian Zionist movement has long pushed for regime change in Iran. With allies in Donald Trump’s inner circle and its ideas seeping into the US military, it has played a key role in building ...
As Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva seeks his final term as Brazil’s president, the Left’s electoral strategy — who runs, which ...
Sanctions were once sold as a gentler foreign policy tool for exerting pressure on dictatorships and terrorist organizations. Yet measures like banning individuals from having bank accounts or ...
Clashes between Pakistan’s military and Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers took a bloody turn this week as an air strike in Kabul killed at least 100 people. With world attention focused on the Middle East, ...
Some on the Left believe that the capitalist system will not tolerate any greater interventions in its operation or redistribution of its spoils. There is no good evidence that this is true.
There is little sign that Israel is achieving its war aims against Iran. But Israel is the only state in the region with nuclear weapons — and it may use them if it feels like it has run out of ...