What Can We Learn From the War in Afghanistan?

September 16, 2021

The True Lessons of the Afghan War

Disagreements over how to assess the American exodus from Afghanistan have kept the pundits busy these last weeks, even though there wasn't much to...

What the US Should Do in a Post-American Afghanistan

August 16, 2021

The Quad Is a Delusion

U.S. politics may be hyperpolarized, but on China policy, there’s considerable cross-party consensus. Republican and Democratic leaders increasingly...

Power, Wealth, and Justice in the Time of Covid-19

Fifteen months ago, the SARS-CoV-2 virus unleashed Covid-19. Since then, it’s killed more than 3.8 million people worldwide (and possibly many...

Wealthy Countries Have Left the Rest of the World Behind

June 22, 2021

The End of the War in Afghanistan Is In Sight

April 28, 2021

America’s Ruinous Pursuit of Mission Impossible in Afghanistan

On May 1st, the date Donald Trump signed onto for the withdrawal of the remaining 3,500 American troops from Afghanistan, the war there, already 19...

America's Ruinous Pursuit of Mission Impossible in Afghanistan

On May 1st, the date Donald Trump signed onto for the withdrawal of the remaining 3,500 American troops from Afghanistan, the war there, already 19...

The Wisdom of Leaving Afghanistan

No sooner did news leak that U.S. President Joe Biden planned to withdraw the remaining 3,500 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan by Sept. 11 than the...

The Pandemic Tested Our Social Safety Net. It Failed.

February 26, 2021

How The US Fails Its Most Vulnerable

Economic crises shine a spotlight on a society’s inequities and hierarchies, as well as its commitment to support those who are most vulnerable in...

How This Country Fails Its Most Vulnerable

Economic crises shine a spotlight on a society’s inequities and hierarchies, as well as its commitment to support those who are most vulnerable in...

Biden Must Rethink the American Way of War

“You may not be interested in war,” it has often been said, “but war is interested in you.” Perhaps so, but Trotsky’s dictum hasn’t...

Covid-19 and the Nightmare of Food Insecurity

December 29, 2020

Hunger in America: Covid-19 and the Nightmare of Food Insecurity

As autumn fades and winter looms, the dire predictions public-health experts made about Covid-19 have, unfortunately, proven all-too-accurate. On...

Covid-19 and the Nightmare of Food Insecurity

So Trump Loses, What Happens Then?

Donald Trump isn’t just inside the heads of his Trumpster base; he’s long been a consuming obsession among those yearning for his defeat in...

If Trump Loses, He Will Be A Ruthless Lame Duck

So Trump Loses to Biden....Then What?

Donald Trump isn’t just inside the heads of his Trumpster base; he’s long been a consuming obsession among those yearning for his defeat in...

Belarus’s Protests Aren’t Particularly Anti-Putin

With little chance of the installation of an anti-Russian regime in Minsk, Moscow doesn’t have much reason to step into the fray.