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Who's getting canceled? The disabled, critical race theory, and more reports from the cultural front

A military is, of course, innately hierarchical, authoritarian, and adversarial, and war, by definition, is terror. There is an inheritance of violence in our increasingly militarized land that ought to concern us all, too.

Why are desperate refugees turning up on the U.S. border? Because we have offloaded the costs of the drug war on Latin America.

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

These themes resonate today: need to limit casualties among “our” troops, who are not necessarily white, though the people who control them usually are; the pretense that “precision bombing” differentiates between “lawbreakers” and “innocents."

Maybe this time we can finally ask whether trying to prop up a dying empire actually makes us -- or indeed the world -- any safer. This is the best chance in a generation to start that conversation.

The bulk of our progressive forces are focused on policy at the local or national level, paying much less attention to global dimensions. But the need for an internationalist agenda will tend to become more and more apparent as they grow in power.

“If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth.”

Legal challenges mount against new law, which allows warrantless arrests and could affect delivery of coronavirus aid.

Americans are getting a small taste of the fire and fury that the U.S. military...inflict on people overseas on a regular basis from Iraq and Afghanistan to Yemen and Palestine, and the intimidation felt by the people of Iran, Venezuela...