Afghanistan

Neoliberal governments invoke phrases like “collateral damage” or “military necessity” to absolve them of the horrors they inflict. We need to develop a new political language.

A campaign to end the ban on transgender people in the military is gaining steam, but trans and gender-nonconforming people are opposing it in favor of getting rid of …

Today, another major work from Michael Hastings is upon us: “The Last Magazine,” a posthumous novel and scathing satire of the corporate news media based on Hastings' time at …

Dick Cheney, instead of being indicted as a war criminal, sneeringly claims to anyone who asks him that “enhanced interrogations” have been and still are absolutely necessary to keep …

Here are five straightforward lessons that could be drawn from that last half century of every kind of American warfare.

The scapegoating of Bowe Bergdahl is a political diversion away from the illegal and failed policies in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The political forces that are trashing the deal to rescue Sgt. Bergdahl are the same political forces that got us into the Iraq war and who want to keep …

As the controversy over the prisoner swap grows, new information has emerged about Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's time in Afghanistan.

The right-wing media is denouncing Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl as a “deserter” who wasn't worth ransoming from the Taliban, but the real villains are the architects of the disastrous Iraq …

How simplistic it is to also exchange Berghdalu2019s “due process” for a guilty verdict, accusing him of deserting.