A profile of Eliot Higgins, whose blog, Brown Moses, has become required reading at intelligence agencies, human rights organizations, and news outlets around the world.
Why can’t the military fix its violence against women problem? Congress is on the precipice of ushering in the biggest shift in military policy since the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. But would it have saved 21-year-old airman Natasha Aposhian?
How the Assad regime tracked and killed Marie Colvin for reporting on war crimes in Syria.
In the bloody civil war, Khaled al-Halabi switched sides. But what country does he really serve?
Terry Albury, an idealistic F.B.I. agent, grew so disillusioned by the war on terror that he was willing to leak classified documents—and go to prison for doing it.
In Virginia, paramilitarism gets a rebrand.
“Stanley McChrystal, Obama’s top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House.”
He survived the Capitol riots. Then his trial began.
The U.S. military openly admitted to killing Somali civilians but won’t return their emails or issue reparations.
Daniel Hale exposed the machinery of America’s clandestine warfare. Why did no one seem to care?
In 2003, the destruction of one particular statue in Baghdad made worldwide headlines and came to be a symbol of western victory in Iraq. But there was so much more to it—or rather, so much less.
...Prince hoped to hire Ukraine’s combat veterans into a private military company. Prince also wanted a big piece of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex, including factories that make engines for fighter jets and helicopters."
He helped build Jewish American support for Israel. What’s his legacy now?
Finding meaning in the climate fight.
A diary of the author’s visit to Palestine.
Blast, impact, trauma, and everything that comes after traumatic brain injury.
In the wartime Balkans, an encounter with a solider produced an unwanted baby, a test of international justice, and a decades-long yearning for peace.
At least 44 Fort Bragg soldiers died stateside in 2020—several of them were homicides. Families want answers. But the Army isn’t giving any.
On the brink of nuclear war, America’s bold response to the Soviet Union depended on an unknown spy agency operative.
The Air Force, beholden to corporate forces, is trapped in a contract with Northrop Grumman to rebuild the nuke program.
The Capitol was breached by Trump supporters who had been declaring, at rally after rally, that they would go to violent lengths to keep the President in power. A chronicle of an attack foretold.
A U.S.-backed militia that kills children may be America’s exit strategy from its longest war.
On revisionist architecture.
Looking at the statues here, or anywhere, makes one wonder: Is abstraction simply the cardinal feature of any war where the loss is so much greater than whatever can be described as victory?
Dozens of military contractors, most of them Black, have been jailed in the emirate — some on trumped-up drug charges. Why has the American government failed to help them?
Specialists Solomon Bangayan and Marc Seiden fought together in Bravo Company’s 3rd Platoon in Iraq. Both were killed. Here’s how they made it home.
