The story of the country’s rise to dominance shows how it can step back.

How a Republican presidential candidate became a leading critic of empire

The Democratic Party’s 2020 platform echoes President Trump’s hawkishness on China. That’s a mistake.

There are alternatives to America’s heavy-handed attempts at “helping” the region. It’s time to pursue them.

The candidate’s plan to “win the future” through American export domination has multiple problems.

Bolsonaro has been a disaster for the environment and for Brazil’s indigenous people. But he’s proud of his U.S. connections.

A new 538-page report adopts an America First strategy to solve a global problem.

“The Room Where It Happened” is a powerful indictment of Trump—and of its author.

What “Defund the Police” can learn from the six-decade effort to radically demilitarize U.S. foreign policy

After baselessly accusing migrants of bringing coronavirus to the U.S., the administration is endangering the lives of infected detainees.

Reports of the dictator’s death may be exaggerated, but his health is undeniably brittle, and so is his regime.

The U.S. has to rethink its role in an era of ecological disaster.

How Trump and Xi set the stage for the coronavirus pandemic

As the coronavirus racks the globe, White House lackeys and lobbyists are converging on the former Yugoslavia and reopening old wounds.

Nearly a decade after the Arab Spring, America’s preferred dictators are again flailing as they try to rein in their societies.

Why our foreign policymakers can’t quit interventionism

The U.S. has misused its "exorbitant" financial privilege, but American leaders should transform it, not abandon it.

Maybe they'll win one for a change.

In its laser focus on military restraint, the present debate about endless war overlooks the financial architecture of U.S. empire.

As Trump’s caprices build broad resistance to military engagement, the pacifist left considers how to ally with its political opponents.