William Astore

Where fear is omnipresent and violence becomes routinized and normalized, what you end up with is dystopia, not democracy.

Hardening schools and arming teachers is the wrong approach.

Two unsung heroes as role models for the Air Force.

Five Reasons Why Washington Can’t Break Its War Addiction

A thought experiment on the military-industrial complex.

The new Cold War is here to stay, until it isn't.

All those trillions of dollars consumed in wasteful wars have helped foster a creeping pessimism in Americans—a pessimism spawned by corporate elites increasingly consumed by greed.

It's finally time for this country to succeed in something again—something noble, something other than the perpetuation of murderous war and the horrific production of genocidal weaponry.