Donald Trump’s Road to Debacle in the Greater Middle East

A Political Movement’s Violent Pursuit of “Enemies”

Each stage in Afghanistan’s tragic 40-year history of intervention—the 1980s covert war, the 1990s civil war, and the U.S. occupation since 2001—helped transform this remote, landlocked nation into the world’s first true narco-state

America’s Opium War in Afghanistan

Obama is revealing himself as one of those rare grandmasters with an ability to play that ruthless global game called geopolitics

Washington Versus China in the Twenty-First Century

From Torture to Drone Assassination, How Washington Gave Itself a Global Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card

Introduction: The recent Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA torture is arguably the single most important U.S. government document released to date…

Time-tested weapons for U.S. global power

The American surveillance state is now an omnipresent reality, but its deep history is little known and its future little grasped. Edward…