The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer

Writing in Foreign Policy, Matt Duss argues that Donald Trump’s rush to war is bothstupid and illegal. It is also wildly unpopular with the public. But he also observes thatcongress has been reluctant...

1 Mar 40min

Over at Talking Points Memo, Josh Kovensky has written an essay on the Trumpadministration’s use of anti-terrorism law to target political groups it doesn’t like.In that piece, Kovensky notes,"Across ...

8 Feb 35min

Donald Trump is sending over what he calls “a massive Armada” to Iran with thepromises to do a reprise of his quick attack on Venezuela that ended with thekidnapping of president Nicolás Maduro. Trump...

1 Feb 36min

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made headlines at Davos with a much-noticed speechwhere he candidly acknowledged that the US led alliance system created in World War II wascoming to an end. Carney...

25 Jan 39min

Iran is facing upheavals at home and abroad. For more than two decades, the Islamic republichas faced waves of protests from citizens demanding a more democratic society. Over the pasttwo weeks, these...

16 Jan 41min

Norman Podhoretz, one of the founding fathers of neoconservatism, died on December 16 atage 95. His legacy is a complex one, since in recent decades neoconservatism has beensupplanted in many ways by ...

22 Des 202552min

The Trump administration has released a new National Security Strategy that is a marked shiftnot only from earlier administrations but also Trump’s first term in office. While the new policystatement ...

14 Des 202538min

Only a few years ago, European elites were patting themselves on the back for fending off thetide of right-wing anti-system parties (often styled as populists). But recent polls in France,Germany and ...

7 Des 202544min