The Laws of Forever War
In Humane, historian Samuel Moyn argues that efforts to make U.S. wartime conduct less brutal have helped pave the way for a policy of permanent armed counterterrorism.
Winter 2026
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How the Forever War Brought Us Donald Trump
And why Trump will only continue it.
How War Lost Its Politics
Election years used to be occasions for pitched battles over whether to go to war. Why aren’t they still?
Drone Art
Drones offer the most compact, iconic representation of the new image of warfare: sanitary, sleek, almost post-human.
American Violence from Baltimore to Baghdad
This article originally appeared at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. The choice of weapons is important because it radically affects what we are, and at stake in that choice is the risk of losing our soul. —Grégoire Chamayou I was reading …
Should We Abolish the CIA?
It is time to ask how we can end our pathological dependence on the ineffective and swollen agency.
Droneism
“Is there racism against drones?” asked an audience member at the Drones and Aerial Robotics Conference in New York City last autumn. Drone hobbyists are seeking to divorce their toys from images of war and bloodshed. But even hobbyist drones are the product of extremely powerful institutions with a keen interest in maintaining that power.
