UAW Ballot Results

A left slate won a narrow victory. Here’s how the regional vote mapped out.

The True Story of the Neocons

The life and death of the ideology that gave us Iraq.

The OG Fake News

Long before disinformation became a moral panic, respectable media outlets like the New York Times trafficked in false information that led to decades of war in Iraq.

Halliburton’s Bounty

The story of Dick Cheney’s favorite war profiteer.

Issue 50: Letters

Mission debriefing.

Issue 50: The Internet Speaks

Gathering operational intelligence.

Issue 50: Dossier

All the fighting words you missed the first time around.

Laughing at the Void

British political comedy of the 1990s and 2000s satirized a low-stakes world of media management and spin. What happened when it tackled the tragedy and atrocity of the war in Iraq?

Beyond Chomsky and Walzer

We must condemn US foreign policy — but we must also articulate the socialist alternative to it.

George Michael Was Our Marvin

Despite pop cultural nostalgia for the protest songs of the ’60s, the march to war in Iraq seemed not to interest musicians — with one glorious exception.

Can the UAW Rise Again?

Despite the ravages of deindustrialization, the United Auto Workers remains the most important American industrial union. Members recently elected a new leadership promising democracy, militancy, and an end to corruption. But change isn’t coming easy to the UAW.

Only You Can Save Darfur

“Save Darfur” perfected a simple message: genocide is bad and must be stopped. But rather than examining the United States’ role in Sudan, it created a spectacle of American power and hierarchy.

Why Australia Marched to War

How Iraq brought Australia into America’s war machine — just in time for a showdown with China.

The Soft Left Couldn’t Stand Up to Tony Blair’s War

How Labour failed to mobilize against the Iraq War.

Four Books by Iraqis You Need to Read

What Invasion Meant for the Kurds

The Iraqi Kurds were supposed to be liberated by Saddam’s removal. Instead, they face corrupt regional parties and a hostile central state.

Fight Songs

Some of the most scathing critiques of the Iraq War were set to music.

Saddam’s Big Cinematic Spectacle

In 1980, Saddam Hussein commissioned a biopic about his 1959 assassination attempt on Iraq’s prime minister. He enlisted a legendary James Bond director and cast his own son-in-law to play him.

Desert Shooters

Some of the top-selling video games of the post-9/11 world have taken real events as their inspiration.

The Whimsical Works of a War Criminal

Because the Western world has a “complicated” history with frustrated artists as national leaders.