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The Senate is on the verge of passing the distinctly misnamed “big beautiful bill.” It is, in fact, one of the ugliest…
William D. Hartung
William D. Hartung is a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and the author of Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex.
The world is in danger, mind-numbingly so, from a combination of crises: disease, hunger, mass displacement, racial and economic inequality, war and…
A primary responsibility of the government is, of course, to keep us safe. Given that obligation, you might think that the Washington…
The divestment campaigns launched last spring by students protesting Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza brought the issue of the militarization of American higher education…
I’ve spent most of my life as an advocate for a more peaceful world. In recent years, I’ve been focused on promoting…
Joe Biden wants you to believe that spending money on weapons is good for the economy. That tired old myth —…
2023 was a year marked by devastating conflicts from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine to Hamas’s horrific terror attacks on Israel, from that country’s indiscriminate mass slaughter in…
On August 28th, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks chose the occasion of a three-day conference organized by the National Defense Industrial…
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past few months, you’re undoubtedly aware that award-winning director Christopher Nolan has released…
On March 13th, the Pentagon rolled out its proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2024. The results were — or at least should…