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Critical State: The Pentagon Can't Count the Iran War's Costs
At The Intercept, Nick Turse reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared before the House and Senate appropriations subcommittees on Tuesday to defend the largest Pentagon budget request in American history, a $1.5 trillion ask for...
Trump’s Wall, Gulf Migration, New START, and More
A man rides a motorbike through a field in Mali (Kagou Dicko/Wikimedia Commons)
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From the start of 2026, this year has shaped up to be one predominantly defined by war, unrest, and chaos. Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine...
Critical State: When War Comes Home (to the Tarmac)
At The American Prospect, David Dayen reports that Spirit Airlines shut down on May 2, stranding passengers across the country and eliminating 17,000 jobs, and that the airline’s collapse could be traced directly to jet fuel prices that had...
Fascism Today, AI in Warfare, Gaza’s Medical Crisis, and More
Sudan’s war has increasingly seen attacks on hospitals and medical facilities (Marco Simoncelli)
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As we march toward summer, US President Donald Trump’s second administration is keeping up the turmoil that has defined so m...
Critical State: Why Iran Believes Time is on its Side
At Drop Site News, Jeremy Scahill reports that, despite Trump’s repeated public claims that Iran was capitulating, Tehran was operating on an entirely different strategic logic. A senior Iranian official with direct knowledge of internal di...
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Award-winning nonprofit news magazine about our life with endless war.
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I'm a journalist from Texas and the managing editor of Inkstick Media. I'm also the author of three books, most recently including "You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave: Refugees, Fascism, and Bloodshed in Greece."
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