Eight local photographers reflect on the images that have moved them most

Brzezinski was a Polish-born American who served in both the Carter and Lyndon Johnson administrations.

It’s time for a fundamental reexamination of the U.S. role in the region. By Chas Freeman.

Chomsky on Trump’s bombings, radical Islam, and the 2017 chemical attacks in Syria.

We no longer need to wonder what it would be like to lose a war on our own territory. We just lost one...

The president is escalating another costly war of choice in a country where blowback for the many innocents killed is more likely than lasting security gains. By Conor Friedersdorf.

“Early in his campaign, Trump recognized the new world realities and proposed to change the substance, symbols, rhetoric and relations with adversaries and allies - adding up to a New Economy.” By James Petras.

President Trump has stepped onto a high-wire in defying America’s Deep State, but can he withstand the powerful winds that will surely buffet him and what will President Putin do to help or hurt, asks ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke.

As the international political order fragments, Theresa May flies from seeing Donald Trump, who speaks approvingly of the use of torture, to a meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who is presiding over the reintroduction of torture in Turkey. By Patrick Cockburn.

We may well miss him when he’s gone. By Emma Ashford.

Abby Martin interviews Mark Ames, an American journalist who spent a decade reporting from Yeltsin’ and Putin’s Russia and witnessed the country’s transformation from an American “colony” to it’s “number one threat.”

Trump is what happens when you fail to understand our global problems in their interconnected, systemic context. By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed.

History After “the End of History.” The fall of the Berlin Wall in October 1989 abruptly ended one historical era and inaugurated another… By Andrew J. Bacevich.

The president’s move to punish Russia has scrambled partisan lines. By David A. Graham.

Wounded Remainers in Britain and the Hillary set in the US love banging on about ‘post-truth politics’. Lies are everywhere,…

The city of Tal Afar has become notorious for sectarian hatred - with many worried that even an Isis defeat on the road to Mosul will not bring peace. By Patrick Cockburn.

Colombo is realizing the unintended strategic consequences of closer ties with Beijing. By Jeff M. Smith.

Hundreds of police officers searched about 190 offices, mosques and apartments of members and supporters of the Islamic group "The true religion" as the German government announced a ban of the organization Tuesday. They would be uniquely qualified.