The baton of “global leadership,” which Joe Biden mentions every chance he gets, is passing to non-Western leaders.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Putin & the Emerging Order
Category: Until This Day–Historical Perspectives on the News
THE ANGRY ARAB: Repressive Secularism in the Arab World
The war on Islamists has been, for all intents and purposes, a war on democratic rule, writes As`ad AbuKhalil.
SCOTT RITTER: Sometimes Humanity Gets it Right
Disarmament in the time of Perestroika spotlights the pivotal contributions of U.S.-Soviet inspectors in helping to complete the 1988 INF treaty, which took effect after a period of bilateral tensions that could be considered more severe than those of today.
Chris Hedges: The Final Collapse
The more insurmountable the crisis becomes, the more we, like our prehistoric ancestors, will retreat into self-defeating responses, violence, magical thinking and denial.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: J Edgar Hoover’s Evil Brainchild
All of COINTELPRO should be declassified. Bobby Rush’s legislation — now at high risk of getting lost in Congress — would do that.
A Pan-Africa Response to the ‘New’ Imperialism
The continent’s political liberation and economic emancipation can’t be one-country affairs, but pan-African combined with international solidarity, writes P. Anyang’ Nyong’o.
WSJ’s Flawed Analysis of CEO Pay
The Drucker Institute researchers who authored the article cast unwarranted doubt on Peter Drucker’s views on pay equity, write Sam Pizzigati and Sarah Anderson.
The Rise of Christian Nationalism
Abortion became just one potent weapon in the arsenal of a movement, years in the making, that is ready to flex its power in ever larger and more audacious ways, writes Liz Theoharis.
Blaming the Victims of McGurk’s Bar Bombing
Survivors now believe the authorities chose to blame the IRA for Belfast’s deadliest bombing during the Northern Ireland conflict to give cover to their key security policy, Anne Cadwallader reports.
The Worst US Secret Service Failure Since Nov. 1963?
James DiEugenio traces a parallel between the agency’s deletion of text messages from Jan. 6 and the disappearance of six boxes of materials concerning the assassination of JFK.