An Accused War Criminal Trained Florida Cops in "New Concepts of Shooting"
A sign of the forever wars coming home, Eddie Gallagher trained officers from the Tallahassee Police Department.
Peter Maass
Peter Maass is a senior editor who has written about war, media, and national security for New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, and the Washington Post. He reported on both civilians and combatants during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the author of "Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War," an award-winning memoir about the conflict in Bosnia, and he wrote "Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil." He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012. He has taught writing at Princeton and Columbia universities, and had fellowships at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard and the American Academy in Berlin. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, he lives in New York City.
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America Tolerates High Levels of Violence but Suppresses Photos of the Slaughter
It’s time to publish graphic images of school shootings and other acts of violence. But change won’t come from that alone.
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After Buffalo, Will Corporate America Turn Against the Murdochs and Fox News?
Why the Murdochs should become the next Sacklers.
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Putin's Endgame Is Not a Mystery. It's Regime Survival.
Ukraine is a speed-chess version of the wars in Bosnia, Chechnya, and Syria, with the pieces on the board including nuclear weapons.
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Pentagon Professes Shock That U.S. Airstrikes Frequently Kill Civilians
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's promises to curb civilian casualties are as empty as the military's vows to stop sexual harassment.
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The Warning Lights Are Flashing Red for America
We are no longer observers of the distressed futures that afflict other people. We are those people now.
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The U.S. Military Is a Machine of Impunity
Wartime savagery requires that its perpetrators are told that their actions are acceptable — maybe heroic — and must not cease.
As Omicron Surge Begins, Hospitals Have New Reason to Open Covid-19 Wards to Journalists
The pandemic has revealed how reporting on what happens in hospitals can have a real impact on public health.
Stanley McChrystal Accidentally Reveals the Dishonesty of U.S. Generals
McChrystal's new book is so stuffed with mendacity and banality that it serves as an exposé on America's generals after 9/11.
The Coronavirus Crisis
"The First Wave" Shows What We Haven't Seen of Covid-19
If you have survived the pandemic without going inside a Covid ward, you will likely be stunned by the grim intimacy of Matthew Heineman's new documentary.