Tag: war

Columns

Not-So-Great Powers

Rafia Zakaria

March 04, 2022

A military power moves in to subjugate a smaller country—when have we seen that before?

Mixed Signals

Rafia Zakaria

February 25, 2022

On the divided loyalties of today’s America Firsters.

Greenwashing the Military-Industrial Complex

Jasper Craven

October 01, 2021

One of the world’s worst emitters makes climate change a “priority.”

War Games

James Wham

September 01, 2021

Activision Blizzard reaps its own bitter fruits.

The Unwinnable War on Disease

Alex de Waal

June 21, 2021

Pandemics and the ecology of armed conflict.

Narrative Napalm

Noah Kulwin

May 17, 2021

Malcolm Gladwell’s apologia for American butchery.

Abiy Ahmed’s Counterrevolution

Alex de Waal

April 26, 2021

The Tigray conflict is a struggle over over the idea of Ethiopia.

Soldier of Fortune

Jasper Craven

July 09, 2020

The private wars of VA Secretary Robert Wilkie.

Amnesiac Warmongers

Chris Gelardi

March 27, 2020

Obama staffers launder their culpability in Yemen.

Against Virtuosity

John Semley

February 12, 2020

Recently, idling away an especially rainy Saturday in January, I found myself sinking a solid six hours into Sony Interactive Entertainment’s 2018 blockbuster game God of War: a stupid-violent farrago of Greek and Norse mythology notable for employing a fixed, ...

The Long Arm of the Law

Lyle Jeremy Rubin

January 27, 2020

The dangerous rise of the global “good cop.”

Bombs Away

Lorissa Rinehart

October 21, 2019

How ads for drones and military payload delivery systems invaded our timelines