Beyond

How medical humanitarianism helped facilitate exploitation of Africa.

Confronting the violence of U.S. policing requires an international perspective.

The US has long had a brutal, domineering relationship with the Philippines. And crucially, it’s depended on the labor of colonized Filipinos themselves.

Until both American and Mexican police forces stop treating it like a war, the violence of drug prohibition won't stop.

Spencer Ackerman’s new book argues that the forever wars created the conditions for Trump’s rise.

Key events in the relationship between the two nations, as compiled by The Onion.

A leftist response to the 1936 Games being held in Nazi Germany, the proposed competition was canceled by the Spanish Civil War.

Since the 1970s, the U.S. and Russia have used marine mammals to further their military objectives, sparking protest from animal rights activists.

After 20 years of foreign policy failures following the attacks on the World Trade Center, America is finally rethinking its place in the world.

The nation’s poverty and chaos has been shaped by Washington for decades.

Colonial planners saw Nova Scotia as a blank space ripe for transformation.

The assassination of the president is part of a pattern that undermines democracy.

After the assassination of the Haitian president, the U.S. should avoid old patterns of interference.

The Biden administration risks rehashing decades of failed policy.

Emily Bass on foreign aid and America's response to long-standing pandemics.

The most complete account we are likely to get of the deceptions and duplicities that led to war leaves some crucial mysteries unsolved.

For the Philippines, independence from the United States came with strings attached.

A new PBS documentary investigates the legacy of one of the most dangerous pollutants on the planet, an unsettling cover-up, and the fight for accountability.

Seventy years after the civil preparedness film Duck and Cover, it's long past time to reckon with the way white supremacy shaped U.S. nuclear defense efforts.

The new agreement echoes the original 1941 version, but mentions human rights and dignity explicitly, envisioning them as a starting point for the world order.

If the Biden administration wants to address migration, it must recognize U.S. complicity in Guatemala’s problems.

Initially supportive of Belgian King Leopold II’s claim to have created a “free state” of Congo, Williams changed his mind when he saw the horrors of empire.

An account of the first female to serve in the U.S. Navy.

Efforts to combat narcotics and communism militarized the country's security forces.

After the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in 1945, Mochitsura Hashimoto, a Japanese sub commander, pushed to exonerate Navy Capt. Charles McVay.

In her new book, Colley shows how written constitutions developed both as a way to further justify rulers and to turn rebellions into legitimate governments.

How an evil sea captain and a beloved queen made the world crave KFC.

Not long ago, life-saving medical know-how was viewed as belonging to everyone. What happened?

In May 1921, President Harding paid tribute to a ship carrying 5,000 fallen Americans returned for burial.

Why the Black Lives Matter movement might help shift the conversation about a conflict thousands of miles away.