The United States has, to put it mildly, frequently miscalculated in the Middle East over the past decade and a half: invading Iraq based on intellig...

A brand new issue of the research journal Psychological Services has come out with an exclusive focus on homelessness, including veteran homelessness...

He took barely three months to reveal the truth. Donald Trump is the true Manchurian Candidate, only a tool of Neoconservatives rather than Communist...

While visiting the Republic of Korea I’ve found a few South Koreans who like Donald Trump and believe he will work well with newly elected Sout...

Xavier Symons, University of Notre Dame Australia Few events in Syria have attracted as much attention as the alleged chemical weapon attack on the t...

The U.S. is still bogged down in Afghanistan (the 16-year-old occupation is the longest in American history) and in Iraq (since the unconstitutional,...

Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com Here’s a footnote to America’s present wars that’s worth pondering for a few moments. The U.S. Ai...

Did you know May was chosen as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month because it marks the anniversary of the completion of the transcont...

Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com Donald Trump’s election has elicited impassioned affirmations of a renewed commitment to unvarnished truth-te...

Benigno Alarcón, Andres Bello Catholic University (UCAB) “The mother of all protests” – that’s what Venezuela’s opposition movement called...

At dusk I stood on a residential street with trim lawns and watched planes approach a runway along the other side of a chain-link fence. Just a few d...

News this week that 300 Marines have returned to Helmand Province in Afghanistan recalls the failed surge of 2009-10, when roughly 20,000 Marines bea...

There is and has been so much conversation about “strength” as this new administration has taken its place in history. The candidate-now-...

Today, I saw another article on why America is losing its wars in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. The gist of this and similar articles ...

At 15 years and counting, the war in Afghanistan is by far America's longest war and among its most costly. We're draining our resources, sustaining m...

The American will to wage war — endless war, pointless war, total war — is, I fear, impervious to public opinion and even political action...