Nathan Bedford Forrest was one of the most aggressive generals of his generation, and after his military service ended in a bitter fashion,…
Wartime savagery requires that its perpetrators are told that their actions are acceptable ā maybe heroic ā and must not cease
If you have survived the pandemic without going inside a Covid ward, you will likely be stunned by the grim intimacy of Matthew Heinemanās new documentary
The defeat in Afghanistan offers a chance to rethink Americaās war machine, but Congress is on the verge of raising military spending to $740 billion
As secretary of state in 2003, Powell lied at the United Nations about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction
Movements of racism and hate are not propelled by visual histrionics alone. They require platforms and they require capital
The question of how America elects its representatives is, in some ways, more consequential than the question of who runs for office
How Lachlan Murdoch Went From Studying Philosophy at Princeton to Exploiting White Nationalism at Fox News
The attention Steve Bannon demands of us should not obscure the rival media impresario with truly Manchurian levels of influence over the president: Rupert Murdoch
āThe overall consistency of North Korean policy has been pretty remarkable over, Iād say, 50 years or so”
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