Global Security Blog
To many non-Americans, the United States looks over-legalized and under-regulated at the same time. It has a written Constitution older than most modern states, yet it often lacks explicit laws where Europeans expect them. Whole domains of political and...
In the book The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, historian Ned Blackhawk advances an argument that is as disturbing as it is well documented: Adolf Hitler did not invent settler colonial violence from nothing. He...
November 9 marks the International Day Against Fascism and Antisemitism, a date that commemorates Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” when Nazi mobs burned synagogues, destroyed Jewish-owned shops, and unleashed a wave of violence that signaled...
When aid convoys stopped arriving in a refugee camp near the South Sudan border, a young mother named Rovina did not know that the cause lay thousands of miles away in Washington, D.C., where an executive order had frozen foreign assistance and shut down...