Rajan Menon reflects on America’s ruinous pursuit of Mission Impossible in Afghanistan.
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COVID-19: The Ultimate Stress Test
Despite the warning of epidemiologists about skyrocketing transmission rates, Trump tarried, writes Rajan Menon.
Hypersonic Weapons & National Insecurity
Weapons that move five times the speed of sound are driving the latest phase of an arms race that not only never ends, but is constantly generating new global risks, writes Rajan Menon.
1% Politics and the New Gilded Age
Rajan Menon looks at two recent scandals and what they show about the nexus between wealth and power in America.
The Fallacy of ‘Humanitarian’ War
The new excuse for U.S. imperial wars is “humanitarian” or “liberal” interventionism with Hillary Clinton and other proponents citing noble motives for destroying foreign societies, as ex-CIA official Graham E. Fuller discusses.