From Swords to Ploughshares

We’re held hostage by a political and military elite that exploits us to fuel its endless wars.

Letters + The Internet Speaks (Issue 34)

Because communication is at the heart of any good relationship.

Dismantling the School-to-Soldier Pipeline

Inside the fight against JROTC, a Pentagon program that targets working-class teenagers at public schools.

The Defector

How Rory Fanning went from Army Ranger to war resister.

Breaking the Chains of Command

For centuries, working-class people have been sent to die in wars for empire. The rich history of soldier revolt isn’t just about foreign policy — it’s about breaking the power of the mighty in society as a whole.

The Armored Archipelago

The United States has 800 military installations in dozens of countries around the world. They all must be dismantled.

Death Drive

Eighty years of American nuclear weapons policy.

British Health Care Lives in America

Despite underfunding, the Veterans Health Administration is the United States’ largest health care system. And it could be the foundation of a truly socialist alternative to private care.

The Wolfowitz Doctrine

In 1992, the Cold War was over. But the Defense Department was already planning for the next one.

An Empty Tale

The foreign policy establishment is responding to Trump-era brutalities by demanding more, not less, aggression and empire.

Ike & Hayek

Eisenhower’s warning about the “military-industrial complex” marked an era when the American right feared militarism could bankrupt the country and plunge it into socialism.

Terms of War

Your guide to military euphemisms.

The Online Left Goes to War

Stefan Bertram-Lee was an internet leftist. And then they went to Rojava and got a gun.

All Dad’s Armies

British politics have become a strange form of World War II cosplay, where the European Union are the Nazis, 1945 is a betrayal, and Boris Johnson is the newWinston Churchill.

Broken Barry

On HBO’s new tragicomedy, a veteran plumbs the depths of his combat record for the stage — but ends up painting a portrait of middle-American desolation.

The Killing Never Ends

Hollywood and the Pentagon

Some of your favorite movies were probably made with help from the Department of Defense. Now we know which ones.

Who Cares What Army?

Though their time as a band was brief, the Monks represent a “what if” of the convergence between GI resistance and the 1960s counterculture.

Once Upon a Time in … Kashmir

We journey to Indian-occupied Kashmir, where the cinemas have been turned into torture chambers.

The GI Bill Made Art

The GI Bill is proof: if people have access to education and the means to live, they’ll create meaningful art.

Defense Spending: the Endless Frontier

The military sets the agenda for scientific research, so it’s still much easier to get funding to develop new bombs than to get the resources to develop new, potentially life-saving antibiotics.

The University of Phoenix Army

For-profit colleges are making Wall Street firms even richer. Bush’s 2008 GI Bill helped make that possible.

Selling Tony Blair’s War

Working people knew the war in Iraq was a mistake — but they didn’t have a media to speak for them.

Elizabeth Warren’s Lean Green Fighting Machine

The way to cut military climate emissions is to scale back the United States’ enormous empire. Elizabeth Warren has no plan for that.

UN Peacekeepers Are Not Your Friends

Even for the United Nations, bombs and troops are increasingly the solution to problems created by an unjust global economy.

Finding the Lesser Evil

Taking stock of the Democratic field on US empire.

Camera in One Hand, Gun in the Other

With its celebration of mercs rampaging through Africa, no healthy society could produce a magazine like Soldier of Fortune.

Masters of War

Endless war … it’s good work, if you can get it.

The Seventh-Inning Stretch Under Socialism

It’s possible to elevate the working class without the jingoism.

War Is a Racket

The life and times of Smedley Butler.

The First March on Washington

A. Philip Randolph called for a March on Washington to force President Roosevelt to abolish Jim Crow in the war effort, and shaped the trajectory of the postwar left.