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Annelise Whitley

Don’t Try to Find a Home in Washington, D.C.

Or Pretty Much Anywhere Else If You’re a Renter

By Rebecca Gordon On March 16, 2023On March 22, 2023

The World Needs TD — and We Need Your Help

By Tom Engelhardt On December 12, 2022On December 13, 2022

Welcome to a Science-Fiction Planet

How George Orwell’s Doublethink Became the Way of the World

By Noam Chomsky On June 16, 2022On June 17, 2022

My Pandemic in Three Acts

Dealing with the Disease that Never Seems to Leave Town

By Nina Burleigh On June 14, 2022On June 14, 2022

A Country Armed to the Teeth

And Strutting Toward the Apocalypse

By Robert Lipsyte On June 12, 2022On June 12, 2022

A Project for Survival in These United States

Lifting from the Bottom So Everyone Can Rise

By Liz Theoharis On November 7, 2021On November 10, 2021

Was the Afghan War a Schell Game?

Getting It Right Is Always the Wrong Approach When It Comes to America’s Wars

By Nick Turse On November 4, 2021On November 9, 2021

Rethinking Employment in the Biden-Harris Era

And My Own Looming Job Crisis

By Rebecca Gordon On March 9, 2021On May 15, 2021

Reflections on Vietnam and Iraq

The Lessons of Two Failed Wars

By Andrew Bacevich On December 22, 2020On December 31, 2020

What If, After 9/11, George W. Bush Had Thrown Parties?

And What If, After the Pandemic Arrived, Donald J. Trump Had Launched a Global War on Covid-19?

By Tom Engelhardt On December 20, 2020On May 15, 2021

It’s Almost Twenty Years Since 9/11

Can We Finally Stop Marching to Disaster?

By Rebecca Gordon On December 17, 2020On January 14, 2021

Hunger in America

Covid-19 and the Nightmare of Food Insecurity

By Rajan Menon On December 15, 2020On May 15, 2021

Pandemic Lessons for the Rest of Us

Or Vaccine Thinking Applied to All of American Life

By Liz Theoharis On December 13, 2020On May 15, 2021

A Tipping Point for the Defeat of Fossil Fuels?

How to Stop Big Energy in Its Tracks (Quite Literally)

By Michael Schwartz On December 10, 2020On May 15, 2021

Spilling Ink and Spilling Blood

Fighting and Writing Against America’s Forever Wars

By William J. Astore and Danny Sjursen On December 8, 2020On January 20, 2021

Trump’s Pernicious Military Legacy

From the Forever Wars to the Cataclysmic Wars

By Michael Klare On December 6, 2020On May 15, 2021

Ready or Not, Here They Come

A Military Spouse’s Perspective on Bringing the Troops Home from Afghanistan and Iraq

By Andrea Mazzarino On December 3, 2020On January 19, 2021

The History of the Decline and Fall of the American Empire

Or What It Means to Fall on a Failing Planet

By Tom Engelhardt On December 1, 2020On May 15, 2021

Shrinking the Pentagon

Will the Biden Administration Dare Cut Military Spending?

By William D. Hartung and Mandy Smithberger On November 29, 2020On December 29, 2020

A Good Deed from the Wicked Witch?

Actually Ending the War in Afghanistan

By Andrew Bacevich On November 24, 2020On January 29, 2021

What President Biden Won’t Touch

Foreign Policy, Sacred Cows, and the U.S. Military

By Danny Sjursen On November 22, 2020On May 15, 2021

The Other America

The New Politics of the Poor in Joe Biden’s (and Mitch McConnell’s) USA

By Liz Theoharis On November 17, 2020On May 15, 2021

Biden Rushes in Where Clinton Failed to Tread

The Return of the Goldilocks Apocalypse

By John Feffer On November 15, 2020On May 15, 2021

A Convergence of Calamities

Record Numbers of War-Displaced to Be Dwarfed by Those Driven From Their Homes by Climate Change

By Nick Turse On November 12, 2020On May 15, 2021

State of Chaos

Donald Trump Knew Us Better Than We Knew Ourselves

By Tom Engelhardt On November 10, 2020On May 15, 2021

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