How the Capitol riot was a natural consequence of the country’s response to the 9/11 attacks

The post-9/11 consensus is crumbling, so America’s hawks are inventing fresh rhetoric to justify imperialist disasters.

The star ISIS reporter for The New York Times has come under criticism following new revelations about one of her sources.

How the seizure of Europe's largest heroin shipment created bloody fallout throughout the world—and sparked still-raging political corruption scandals in Turkey, Greece, and the Middle East

“Spit hoods” are torture, and Daniel Prude is only the latest victim.

The State Department, a conservative-connected shell company, and a key Kurdish crime family team up to siphon Syrian oil for U.S. investors.

A story of Iraqi politics, Pentagon oil contracts, and an ongoing foreign policy disaster

There are alternatives to America’s heavy-handed attempts at “helping” the region. It’s time to pursue them.

A post-9/11 veteran novelist explores a post-Vietnam literary soiree gone bad, and finds timeless lessons about a contentious and still-evolving genre.

Twenty percent of cops are military veterans—and some are fighting to rid policing of fear-based training and a testosterone-fueled culture.

The U.S. has historically chosen war to address all kinds of problems: terror, drugs, unfriendly countries. This time is different.

Amid a global oil collapse, the military is overpaying politically connected contractors to keep its jets fueled in Iraq.

“When I arrived at the airport, I felt that hardness just ripped off. But that stayed for only two weeks. Then the coronavirus came."

The president wants to "re-open" the economy, and he's enlisting corporate America to rationalize the thousands more deaths that would ensue.

Hoda Muthana left the U.S. to join ISIS. Now she wants to return home to stand trial, but the Trump administration won’t let her. She is a test case for the future of birthright citizenship.

Countless lives in America, Iran, and Iraq depend on leaders’ willingness to put down the sabers and cooperate.

Why did the CBS program ignore a historic Afghanistan cease-fire to profile Eddie Gallagher, the Trump-pardoned Navy SEAL?

The U.S. has misused its "exorbitant" financial privilege, but American leaders should transform it, not abandon it.

Maybe they'll win one for a change.

In its laser focus on military restraint, the present debate about endless war overlooks the financial architecture of U.S. empire.