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Rajan Menon

Rajan Menon, a TomDispatch regular, is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations at the Powell School, City College of New York, and Senior Research Fellow at Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. He is the author, most recently, of The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention.

How This Country Fails Its Most Vulnerable

A Field Guide to Our Threadbare Social Safety Net

By Rajan Menon On February 23, 2021On February 23, 2021

Hunger in America

Covid-19 and the Nightmare of Food Insecurity

By Rajan Menon On December 15, 2020On December 31, 2020

How the Pandemic Hit Americans

Selective in Its Impact, the Virus Has Struck the Homeless Hard

By Rajan Menon On July 14, 2020On July 14, 2020

The Ultimate Stress Test

The American World That Covid-19 Reveals

By Rajan Menon On April 12, 2020On July 8, 2020

The Shame of Child Poverty in the Age of Trump

Billionaires Are Soaring, Poor Kids Are Losing More

By Rajan Menon On February 2, 2020On February 2, 2020

Hypersonic Weapons and National (In)security

Why Arms Races Never End

By Rajan Menon On October 1, 2019On October 1, 2019

America’s Suicide Epidemic

It’s Hitting Trump’s Base Hard

By Rajan Menon On June 18, 2019On June 18, 2019

Money Talks, Big Time

1% Politics and the Scandals of A New Gilded Age

By Rajan Menon On April 2, 2019On April 2, 2019

Walling in the Opioid Crisis?

There Is a Real National Emergency in America, It’s Just Not the Wall

By Rajan Menon On January 31, 2019On January 31, 2019

Shattering Europe?

Why Trump’s Paris Fiasco Really Matters

By Rajan Menon On November 18, 2018On November 18, 2018

Yemen’s Descent into Hell

A Saudi-American War of Terror

By Rajan Menon On September 18, 2018On September 18, 2018

National (In)Security

In the United States of Inequality

By Rajan Menon On July 15, 2018On July 16, 2018

Dr. Strangelove in the Pentagon

Lowering the Nuclear Threshold and Other Follies of the New Nuclear Posture Review

By Rajan Menon On February 25, 2018On February 25, 2018

Avoiding Armageddon in Korea

Or Launching a War for the Ages

By Rajan Menon On January 18, 2018On January 18, 2018

Twenty-First-Century American Populism

Or Putting Your Mouth Where Your Money Isn’t

By Rajan Menon On November 28, 2017On November 28, 2017

Avoiding Apocalypse on the Korean Peninsula

Why Diplomacy Is Not Naïve Appeasement in the Korean Crisis

By Rajan Menon On June 4, 2017On February 17, 2021

National (In)security

What a Trump Presidency Really Means for Americans at the Edge

By Rajan Menon On March 30, 2017On March 30, 2017

Is President Trump Headed for a War with China?

All Options Are “On The Table”

By Rajan Menon On February 12, 2017On February 12, 2017

Will Trump Shred the Iran Nuclear Deal?

Or Is That the Least of Our Problems When It Comes to U.S.-Iranian Relations?

By Rajan Menon On January 12, 2017On January 12, 2017

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    In a completely original analysis, prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America’s rise as a world power—from the 1890s through the Cold War—and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military alliances. McCoy then analyzes the marquee instruments of US hegemony—covert… Read more

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