Osama bin Laden’s “letter to America” recently went viral. Beneath its horrifying rhetoric is an important historical document that helps us see how the US response to 9/11 was exactly what Bin Laden hoped for.

Vincent Bevins’ new book looks back over recent uprisings of our time and reviews what they accomplished—and what they didn’t.

If we are outraged by China’s spying against the U.S., then is it legitimate for the U.S. to spy on China? Or is espionage only objectionable when other countries do the same things we do already?

The Biden administration embraces dictators and barely pretends to care whether US-allied regimes respect basic freedoms.

Foreign policy matters. When progressives neglect to take an anti-imperialist stance, it allows cynical charlatans like Donald Trump to outflank them and score easy political points.

Where does this end? Instead of trying to facilitate a negotiated peace, the U.S. further escalates the war.

Janet Biehl discusses the radical practice of decentralized democracy among the Kurds of Rojava.

The United States’ destruction of Iraq remains the worst international crime of our time. Its perpetrators remain free and its horrors are buried.