The old canard is an obstacle to a realistic, fact-based approach to foreign policy. By Andrew J. Bacevich.

In the 1940s, U.S. Researchers Infected Hundreds of Guatemalans with Syphilis. The Victims Are Still Waiting for Treatment. By Sushma Subramanian.

Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin vs. the Marabouts. By Aaron Dabbah.

Attorneys for Facebook’s CEO have filed suits against hundreds of Hawaiians centered around his 700-acre Kauai estate, alarming neighbors who see growing inequality and possible displacement. By Jon Letman, Julia Carrie Wong.

A warning that nuclear war is not only imaginable, but a 'contingency,' says the Pentagon. By John Pilger.

Enlargement, widely regarded as the greatest single achievement of the European Union since the end of the Cold War, and occasion for more or less unqualified self-congratulation, has left one inconspicuous thorn in the palm of Brussels... By Perry Anderson

What was once Britain’s “crown jewel” has outshined the former empire. By Robbie.gramer.

If the sultan of Mysore had had a bit more luck, George Washington might be known as the Haider Ali of North America. By Blake Smith.

In the 18th century, the Muslim warlord Tipu Sultan terrorised Hindu southern India and clashed repeatedly with the British. Today, his legacy is contested, but he was far from the nationalist that some have claimed, writes Zareer Masani.

Short on manpower and equipment, and relying on a loose combination of regular army troops and local militia, Nathanael Greene wrested the South from the British and saved the Revolution. By James A. Warren.

The cavalier use of the term, by everyone from Robby Mook to Vladimir Putin, is morally obtuse. By Patrick Blanchfield and Patrick Iber.

British missionaries hated the sari; US feminists would ban the burqa. Why do empires care so much about women’s clothes? By Rafia Zakaria.

Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny discuss their new film, The Native and the Refugee, which investigates how the spatial contexts of Native reservations in the U.S. and Palestinian refugee camps in the Middle East incubate resistance to settler colonialism. By Aviva Stahl.

Multilateral imperial politics triggered an indigenous arms race and led to the violent transformation of Native America. By David J Silverman.

How a visit by an American ambassador to Arunachal Pradesh has endorsed an illegal boundary at a stolen town. By Peter Lee.

The United States is getting the choice between war and peace profoundly wrong, squandering vast sums of money and undermining national security. By Jeffrey D. Sachs.

Treasures from pre-colonial southern Africa were suppressed because they contradicted apartheid's official history.

By Lauren Carasik. (Aug. 16, 2016)

British liberal imperialism became normative to its age as its American successor is typically amnesiac and neurotic. By Hamid Dabashi.

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