War & Peace

US assassination and targeted killing, with presidential approval, has been going on covertly for at least half a century.

Mali is fast becoming the Afghanistan of Africa. What happened to make it a hotbed for terrorism, ethnic cleansing and a civil war which could destabilize the entire region?

War encourages dehumanization and breeds atrocity. This, in part, is what makes the current evolution of warfare so terrifying.

Father John Dear: Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. both insisted that we need a fundamental internal conversion from violence to nonviolence as the basis for our work …

As deformities spike in the Iraqi city, we ask if the US has been honest about weaponry used during the 2004 assaults.

John Nichols: Gore Vidal loved America in the way the best of the founders did.

As much as the Pentagon works behind the scenes to kill any budget cuts, the Pentagon contractors use even more influence and money to keep anything from being cut.

A prominent proponent of MAD puts his faith in nuclear deterrence, justifying his position in historical terms.

On soon-to-retire Gen. Norty Schwartz's watch, we saw the coverup of an unlawful epidemic in which thousands of USAF men and women have been subject to religious persecution.

Imagine for a moment that almost once a week for the last six months somebody somewhere in this country had burst, well-armed, into a movie theater showing a superhero …