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

We have enough cops, and they don’t need new laws. What happened on January 6 requires a political, not criminal response.

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

Trump’s partial troop withdrawal is cynical and incoherent, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

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.

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

A house podcast style holds back what is otherwise an extraordinary series.

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.

His presidency sometimes makes historic changes possible. But his ego always torpedoes them.

A new HBO documentary about the ISIS killer comes just as the West is reexamining who its enemies really are.

On the mournful threads connecting Joe Biden’s half-century in politics

How the United States reinvented empire

It's not just that the U.S. isn't doing anything about China's mass detention campaign. The U.S.-led War on Terror helped accelerate it.

A study looking at two very similar Tunisian towns, one with union activity and one without, has yielded an interesting idea.

How the contest between capitalism and communism shaped world politics—and defines today’s inequalities.

Two books shed new light on the toppled dictator's final days—and what the U.S. still doesn’t understand about Iraq.

How perpetual ignorance shapes the never-ending war on terror.