The Things We See but Don’t Say in the Afghanistan War
Jordan, a young lieutenant at the time, calls it the "moment he realized shit was going to get real that year." See, we (Bandit Troop, 4th Squadron, 4th Cavalry) had…
The Ghost of Fascism in the Age of Trump
In the age of Trump, history neither informs the present nor haunts it with repressed memories of the past. It simply disappears. Memory has been hijacked. This is especially troubling…
Why Are We Still in Afghanistan?
It must have seemed like a safe, cheap, and easy idea back in 1979 when US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, with President Carter's blessing, set about harassing the Russian…
The GOP: now the official party of debt
\ Welcome to the Republican rabbit hole of fiscal responsibility. In 2011, the lugubrious Mitch McConnell warned that our national debt was making us "look a lot like Greece." That…
The White House’s Weekly Immigrant Tally Includes Non-Crimes and Non-Immigrants
On Friday morning an e-mail was sent to reporters from the Director of Surrogate and Coalitions Outreach from the Office of Communications at the White House... Want to read more?…