Syria

Historian Andrew Bacevich makes the case against war on Syria. Arundhati Roy discusses her new novel. Actor Wally Shawn talks about targeted assassinations.

10 key points demonstrated by Trump's new bombing campaign and the positive elite reaction to it.

Trump is recklessly killing large numbers of civilians, thus strengthening the groups he thinks he’s destroying.

Yassin al-Haj Saleh has been a vociferous critic of a growing international consensus that has come to see the Syrian conflict in Bashar al-Assad’s terms — as a fight against terrorism.

Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for president, is not alone in not knowing what, exactly, Aleppo is and why it matters.

This explicit war advocacy makes it much harder, and more shameful, to ignore Clinton's militarism.

In light of her long record, Clinton's campaign is an odd vessel for demonizing others for their support for human-rights abusers.

The fallacy of "whataboutism" is now a favorite Western tactic for distracting from one's own abuses, demanding that one's citizens focus on the crimes of other governments rather than their own.