Andy Kroll
The World Welcomes Biden But Hedges Its Bets
Will Political Volatility Be America’s Downfall?
Take Me Out to the Capitol…Whoops, I Mean the Ballpark
The Super Bowl Ends the Most Toxic Season Ever
Joe Biden’s Peace Force?
A Multipoint Plan to End War as We Know It
Been There, Done That (Not!)
The Imperial Presidency Comes Home to Roost
Demilitarizing Our Democracy
How the National Security State Has Come to Dominate a “Civilian” Government
While America Was Sleeping
Waking from a Four-Year Fever Dream to Find Global Power Gone
Indirect Deaths
The Massive and Unseen Costs of America’s Post-9/11 Wars at Home and Abroad
The Future of War, American-Style
A Bidenesque Tour of America’s Regional and Global Military Adventures
The Rubble of Empire
Doctrines of Disaster and Dreams of Security as the Biden Years Begin
The Earth Does Not Belong to Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s True Legacy
President Biden’s China Conundrum
Can He Achieve Progress Where It Matters While Avoiding a New Cold (or Hot) War?
POW Nation
When Will America Free Itself From War?
War of the (Financial) Worlds
Or Let the Markets Go Wild While the People Go Down
Will They Ever Be Over?
The 20th Anniversary of the War on Terror Arrives
Saying Goodbye to the Con-Man-in-Chief
Demining America After The Donald
Splinterlands
Julian West, looking backwards from 2050, tries to understand why the world and his family have fallen apart. Part Field Notes from a Catastrophe, part 1984, part World War Z, John Feffer’s striking new dystopian novel, takes us deep into the battered, shattered world of 2050. The European Union has broken apart. Multiethnic great powers like Russia and… Read more
Frostlands
It’s 2051, and Arcadia is under attack. As the stand-alone sequel to Splinterlands begins, the sustainable compound in what was once Vermont is on high alert. Arcadia’s defense corps is mobilized to defend against what first appears to be a routine assault, one of the many that the community must repulse from para- military forces… Read more
A Nation Unmade by War
A Nation Unmade by War surveys American exceptionalism in the age of absurdity. As Tom Engelhardt argues, despite having a more massive, technologically advanced, and better-funded military than any other power on the planet, in the last decade and a half of constant war across the Greater Middle East and parts of Africa, the United… Read more
In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power
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
Every Body Has a Story
As the Great Recession and the foreclosure crisis hit, four close friends who barely made it out of poverty in New York City’s South Bronx, suddenly find themselves caught up in the economic maelstrom. Lena, Zack, Dory, and Stu must reconcile their troubled past with an uncertain future in Beverly Gologorsky’s stunning new novel, a… Read more
Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan
A dramatic, true story of men and women trapped in the grip of war, Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead is modern crisis reporting at its best. For six weeks in the Spring of 2015, award-winning journalist Nick Turse traveled on foot as well as by car, SUV, and helicopter around war-torn South Sudan talking… Read more
The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II
World War II marked the apogee of industrialized “total war.” Great powers savaged one another. Hostilities engulfed the globe. Mobilization extended to virtually every sector of every nation. Air war, including the terror bombing of civilians, emerged as a central strategy of the victorious Anglo-American powers. The devastation was catastrophic almost everywhere, with the notable… Read more
They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America’s Wars: The Untold Story
At 73, having spent years focusing on the civilian toll from Washington’s Afghan War, Ann Jones embedded on an American forward operating base to experience what that war was like for the U.S. troops in the field. The next year, she began following grievously wounded American soldiers from the moment they came off the battlefield… Read more
Tomorrow’s Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa
You won’t see segments about it on the nightly news or read about it on the front page of America’s newspapers, but the Pentagon is fighting a new shadow war in Africa, helping to destabilize whole countries and preparing the ground for future blowback. Behind closed doors, U.S. officers now claim that “Africa is the… Read more