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Gabbard should be aggressively questioned about her use of “war on terror” language and calls for a militarized war against an ideology. But Democratic senators are likely to deploy a Cold War line of interrogation on her stances on Russia and Syria.

British law prohibits extradition to a country that may impose capital punishment. The indictment would punish conduct that national security journalists routinely engage in; no publisher has ever been prosecuted for disclosing government secrets....

The Pentagon Girds for Mid-Century Wars

Saudi Arabia is exploiting great-power competition to obtain security commitments from the U.S. This should be rejected.

The U.S. invaded Afghanistan by leveraging concerns about women’s rights under Taliban rule. Women’s rights will never be achieved through military occupation and bombing.

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A reckoning with America’s failed national security policy is long overdue. America’s current vision of security has been ruinous both to the world and to the American people. A different future is possible.

We need to a new “people’s” military as a force that could truly defend the American republic, focused above all on supporting the Constitution, freedom of speech, the press, and assembly, the right to privacy and due process, justice for all.

The country has manipulated rules of engagement to serve its colonialist project in Palestine. Legal scholars must face this fact head on.

Climate change poses an existential threat. That doesn’t mean we should further empower an already bloated Pentagon.