The Iran War Is Starving India
For migrant workers in India, supply shocks from Trump’s folly in the Strait of Hormuz are causing hunger.
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A People’s Organization Without the People
The Barack Obama Presidential Center promised to be more than an ode to the former president. In reality, it’s an $850 million monument to the vacuousness that defined Obama liberalism.
The Death of Honor
General Douglas MacArthur was determined that West Point graduates would uphold the most romantic definitions of honor. Instead his credo fostered a culture of duplicity and institutional subterfuge, leading to real-world military fiascos.
Congress Must Investigate War Profiteers Once Again
Ninety years after the original Nye Committee exposed the arms industry’s corruption, the Pentagon and its contractors are bigger, richer, and more unaccountable than ever.
Charity Ends at Home
The decline of the much-touted billionaires’ Giving Pledge.
Issue 63: Misery Index
Crunching the numbers on the class war.
How a Fight Over the Contras Bankrolled Roger & Me
How a Fight Over the Contras Bankrolled Roger & Me
Writing Puff Pieces While the World Burns
As US foreign policy grows more belligerent than ever, Americans are getting less and less information about the rest of the world.
Thomas Piketty’s Utopian Socialism
The World Inequality Lab has produced the most ambitious redistribution plan in decades. But it asks the workers of the rich world to atone for empire rather than fight capital.