At Miramar National Cemetery’s 13th annual Memorial Day ceremony, the director of San Diego State University’s Center for War and Society spoke of how he held D-Day troops in awe — citing the ...

(RNS) — On Yom Kippur, my wife and I attended the afternoon service at our local Reform synagogue as we do almost every year. During the service, the war in the Middle East was constantly on my mind, ...

More than a week has passed with people living in shelters — not all of them, of course. Many citizens cannot even reach shelter at all, and by coincidence, most of them are socially vulnerable. But ...

More than twenty years ago, 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan set into motion a hugely consequential shift in America’s foreign policy: a perpetual state of war that is almost entirely invisible to the ...

On the highway from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, American flags now hang alongside Israeli ones – a public sign of appreciation for US involvement in fighting Iran. "We used to beg American administrations ...

The language surrounding the moment is familiar: deterrence, security, strategic interests, the preservation of order. Yet something about the moment feels strangely old, almost ritualistic. The ...

Scenes of enraptured crowds celebrating the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad emerged from Damascus on Sunday as Syrian ...

True, genuine courage is rare among politicians. They’ll declare themselves brave for having done the predictable. This is not the case for Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, whose signature political stand ...

The 1960s–that extraordinary decade–is celebrating its 50th birthday one year at a time. Happy birthday, 1965! How, though, do you commemorate the Vietnam War, the era’s signature catastrophe? After ...

Midway through his inaugural address, Barack Obama proclaimed, “A decade of war is now ending.” A cynical listener might respond: “And a new decade of war is about to begin.” Obama sounded pacific ...

On January 21, 2013, Barack Obama was inaugurated for his second term as president of the United States. Just as he had promised when he began his first campaign for president six years earlier, he ...

Tehran has faced waves of US-Israeli strikes since the war began in February On the highway from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, American flags now hang alongside Israeli ones – a public sign of appreciation ...