Wartime savagery requires that its perpetrators are told that their actions are acceptable — maybe heroic — and must not cease. MY EDUCATION IN wartime savagery started in Bosnia in the 1990s. Reporting on the war, I visited death camps, saw civilians get shot and beaten, interviewed torturers, and was arrested multiple times for being …

With the introduction of ACLU Watch, more people can better understand that a robust police presence is not the true source of America’s crime problem, Robert Bridge writes. Law enforcement officials have begun a watch beat of sorts against the American Civil Liberties Union, whose support of justice reform has …

Why it’s time to make deep cuts at the Pentagon. Where are you going to get the money?  That question haunts congressional proposals to help the poor, the unhoused, and those struggling to pay the mortgage or rent or medical bills, among so many other critical domestic matters.  And yet—big surprise!—there’s …

By sending massive shipments of offensive weapons to a rabidly Russophobic regime Washington is demonstrating its witting culpability. Following his set-piece video call with Vladimir Putin this week, U.S. President Joe Biden said there would be no American military forces sent to Ukraine to defend against alleged Russian invasion. Answering …

What President Dwight D. Eisenhower dubbed the “military-industrial complex” has been constantly evolving over the decades, adjusting to shifts in the economic and political system as well as international events. The result today is a “permanent-war complex,” which is now engaged in conflicts in at least eight countries across the …