Militarism

Three-quarters of a century of nuclear follies—and that's just where to begin.

Washington's national security spending follies.

We have paid dearly for that ignorance and will likely pay even more in the years ahead. So it goes.

What if the media acknowledged that war doesn't work and opened itself, and the bulk of the American public, to far more effective ways of relating to the rest of the world, including those we call our enemies?

Swirling around those submarines are descriptions citing "strategy" and "capability." But don't be fooled: they'll be potential world killers.

America is stabbing itself in the back.

Some of our top brass denounce socialism, but they run the most socialist organization on earth.

A quick fascism worry checklist.

The Islamic Republic? George W. Bush? Both answers feel like evasions.

Total spending on the Pentagon and related work on nuclear weapons at the Department of Energy will top $750 billion, one of the highest levels ever—substantially higher than the peaks of the Korean or Vietnam wars or the Reagan buildup of the 1980s.