Greg Grandin

For decades, Kissinger kept the great wheel of American militarism spinning ever forward.

He demonstrated how the frontier wasn’t an incubator of democratic equality but a place of unrelenting pain, cruelty, and suffering.

We now know a great deal about the crimes he committed while in office. But we know little about his four decades with Kissinger Associates.

Martin Luther King Jr. recognized that Imperial expansion over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slavery.

And it’s not simply that he calls himself a socialist.

From the 80s onwards, the borderlands were rife with paramilitary cruelty and racism. But the president’s rhetoric has thrown fuel on the fire.

The borderlands have “been transformed into a vast graveyard of the missing.”

A timeline of border fortification, from 1945 to the Trump Era.

The U.S. needs a historical reckoning with the true cause of the border crisis: the long, brutal history of border enforcement itself.

Donald Trump says there is “a crisis of the soul” at the border. He is right, though not in the way he thinks.

Now two Guatemalan children have died under Border Patrol custody. But the agency’s role in Latin American oppression has a long history.

She died of cardiac arrest, but the real killer was decades of US policy in Central America.

When it comes to imperialism, Latin America never forgets, and the United States never remembers.

On the 30th anniversary, we can see that it was an ideological project, with the New Right reasserting the righteousness of militarism and markets.

It would be a grave mistake to ignore the link between Wilson’s white supremacy at home and his racist militarism abroad.

The Confederate flag’s military tenure continued long after the Civil War ended.

How the U.S. invasion of Panama ushered in the post-Cold War era of military unilateralism and preemptive war.

What the modern world owes slavery. (It’s more than back wages).