Beyond

As the 2020 presidential election nears, internationalists are plotting their return. But they still haven’t learned from the failure of liberal universalism.

On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese-American writer speaks to one of the last living survivors.

How many people really died because of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings? It’s complicated. There are at least two credible answers.

In 1920, like 2020, race became the pivot of a historic turning point.

An empire built on the backs and blood of enslaved Africans.

The world's eyes are upon America as it struggles with racism and inequality. This is nothing new.

One has to wonder whether the advocates of a new Cold War have taken the measure of the challenge posed by 21st-century China.

The authoritarian tactics we’ve exported around the world in the name of national security are now being deployed in Portland.

Modern policing is linked to overseas colonial projects of conquest, occupation, and rule. Demilitarization requires uprooting that worldview.

Fighting for the soul of American space policy.

For decades they covered up the U.S. massacre of civilians at No Gun Ri and elsewhere. This is why we never learn our lessons.

Iran and surplus imperialism.

How allies abroad help the fight against racism at home.

As white, southern troops raised the battle flag, they showed that they were fighting for change abroad—but the status quo at home.

A riveting new book shows how the Civil War in the West was both strategically important and lacking in the moral contours of the broader war.

The founders of modern policing quelled foreign uprisings. ‘Demilitarizing’ police will be harder than taking away their tanks.

A new book considers the mid-century authors who were – and weren't – willing to have their work deployed in the service of the Cold War.

How the politics of American imperialism often intersected with calls for women's suffrage.

Pittsburgh photographer Teenie Harris focused on the patriotism of men who fought for the country abroad while being discriminated against at home.

The systematic mass murder and assault of accused communists in Indonesia by US-backed military forces has left a mark on the country and the world.

The US-backed Indonesian mass killings of 1965 reshaped global politics, securing a decisive victory for U.S. interests against Third World self-determination.

Winthrop's specimens illustrated an alteration of the New World environment and the political economy of New England according to Winthrop's careful designs.

Untold stories of American diplomats who "lost" China.

Any attempt to revive solidarity between rich and poor nations must begin by recapturing the commitment to social and economic rights that inspired the WHO.

The war and its aftermath, from a Vietnamese perspective.

How to hide an empire, from the Spanish-American war to CIA-sponsored Latin American coups.

Watching disease spread and kill on slave ships.

The history of caffeine and capitalism can get surprisingly heated.

The disease afflicted the author as he was writing what would become "The Innocents Abroad."

In 1625, New England’s “hideous and desolate” isolation suddenly began to seem a God-given blessing in disguise.