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The United States was involved in Afghanistan long before 9/11, fomenting Islamist revolt and paving the way for its own defeat.

A Climate Disaster Zone, Not a Military Superpower

The Court’s decision on Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy upends decades of precedent warning that judges shouldn’t mess with foreign affairs.

After wowing in Watchmen, the Emmy-winning actor is starring in a reboot of the timely 90s horror. ‘I want to inspire others to be magical,’ he says

A health warning for Facebook? Netflix remakes the movie biz, and more media madness

Unlike wars that were fought against western imperialism in the 1950s,‘60s, and‘70s in places like Algeria, Kenya, Vietnam, and South Africa, the Taliban will not be taking over as liberators. Taliban rule in the past proved to be a brutal patriarchy

It’s an attempt to recreate the power dynamics of the employer-dominated company towns of old—with workers unable to change employers if they want to continuing working in the same industry.

By 2049, the Chinese military will be so busy coping with a burning, flooding, churning world of climate change — threatening the country’s very survival — that it will possess scant capacity, no less the will, to launch a war with the United States

No, DeSantis isn't really spreading COVID just to boost profits. He's doing it because he wants to be president

The conditions inherent in our system of industrially producing milk, meat and eggs, creates the conditions wherein humans do things they never thought they would or could do to other sentient creatures.