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It Will Take More Than Congress to Cure America’s War Addiction
If we care about ending war, calling on Congress to “reassert its war powers” isn’t nearly enough. In The New Republic, I argue that we must prioritize specifically anti-war arguments, without getting bogged down in fruitless proceduralism.
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Media Rally Around ‘Forever War’ in Afghanistan
U.S. negotiations with the Taliban have been gaining steam. Media and the foreign policy establishment are very worried about this. For FAIR, I argue that they shouldn’t be.
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Chaos in Yemen: A Conversation With Isa Blumi
I spoke with historian Isa Blumi, author of Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us About the World (UC Press, 2018) about the conflict in Yemen for The Nation.
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‘Shock and Awe’ Celebrates Reporters Who Got It Right
I reviewed Shock and Awe, Rob Reiner’s new film about the journalists who challenged the Bush administration’s claims that Saddam Hussein had WMDs. Read my piece in FAIR.
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What Does It Mean to Give David Petraeus the Floor?
Read my coverage of the protest against David Petraeus at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) in The Nation.
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For WaPo, ‘What Next in Africa?’ Doesn’t Include US Getting Out
Read this piece in Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR).
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Steve Coll on the killing of Osama bin Laden
New reporting by Steve Coll offers few new details on the bin Laden raid and only partially corroborates Sy Hersh’s account.
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Fordham’s Arbitrary and Capricious War on Students for Justice in Palestine
Fordham banned Students for Justice in Palestine on the grounds that the club’s politics were “polarizing.”
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Boring and Sucks: A Review of Robert Pape’s ‘Pragmatic’ Humanitarian Interventionism
This piece began as a short paper submitted October 2016 for Professor Anjali Dayal’s undergraduate seminar at Fordham University called, “The Politics of Humanitarian Intervention.” For decades Western policymakers and scholars of international politics have tried to articulate a specific set of standards to guide the practice of military intervention. Following World War II, the…
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The Much-Welcomed Decline of the Two-State Solution
Taken at face value, President Trump’s nonsensical declaration of his IDGAF position on a solution to Israeli apartheid –– “I like the one that both parties like. I’m very happy with the one that both parties like. I can live with either one.” –– seemed to signal a slight departure from more than 20 years…
Gunar Olsen 