Chromium Cover Forever Wars #100 That's how many editions Sam and I produced in the past 52 weeks. Time for some anniversary journalism. Like all anniversary journalism, this edition will be lazy.
Newsletter United Nations Warns of Yemen's Next Disaster As President Biden attempts to reset relations with Riyadh, the U.N. details the limits of the ceasefire in Yemen—and says it's "about to get much worse."
Newsletter Matt Bors' JUSTICE WARRIORS Puts Comics in an Illegal Chokehold The GOAT political cartoonist talks to FOREVER WARS about bringing his critique of our collapsing society to comic books, the medium he was born to work in. Sorry to Mr. Gotcha.
Part of How They Took Away Your Bodily Autonomy Was Through Terrorism Bombings, arsons, assassinations. Stalkings, clinic invasions. Assaults, bomb threats. Finally, Supreme Court justices.
Newsletter Eric Greitens' Death Squad Politics An accused rapist who trades on his Navy SEAL credentials fantasizes about a violent purge. He likes boasting that the cops are with him. Haha, j/k…unless..?
Newsletter Few of The President's Men A bitter irony of the January 6 Committee is that it's paving a road to rehab for Constitutional vandals like Bill Barr.
Newsletter The Summertime FOREVER WARS Work Slowdown Honestly? It's getting hot out and this newsletter is bleak. Let's take some deep breaths
Newsletter You Guys Actually Worship Cthulhu The SBC has pledged to handle their accusers with "Christlike compassion." In a moment when they must repent and pay restitution, they still see themselves in Jesus' sandals.
Newsletter What America Does Abroad Is What America Does at Home Human life means nothing to America, domestically or internationally. We who live here will simply have to overcome America for the sake of those who can't. Not great
Newsletter Civil Libertarian Opposition To New Domestic-Terrorism Bill Weakens The Buffalo attack has given new life to a Democratic bill establishing domestic counterterrorism offices within DHS, DOJ and the FBI. The ACLU and others no longer oppose it.
Newsletter Basketball Is Broken After a second consecutive semifinals loss, a Sixers fan loses faith in the Process—in more ways than one.
Newsletter When Terrorism Is White, As It So Often Is Don't go looking for consistency in the application of counterterrorism. The only relevant consistency is America's tolerance of white terrorism, terror as American as apple pie.
Newsletter Democrats must make abortion the center of their politics Conservative Christians rewrote history so they could tell each other their whole religion hinged on abortion. It doesn’t, but the fundamental rights of laborers absolutely do.
Newsletter Who Becomes A "Terrorist" in Post-Roe America? The fusion centers that DHS set up early in the War on Terror can be used to police your uterus. No federal abortion ban necessary.
Newsletter Despair Is Premature And Rage Is Insufficient When the country that considers itself the definition of freedom takes away the most basic freedom of more than half its people, the only response is to resist until the end.
Newsletter The Defense Industry Is Winning in Ukraine I know, big surprise. But this stuff is worth tracking, especially as the war bogs down.
Newsletter NSA Gives $10 Billion Contract To Company With Ex-NSA Director on Its Board I simply do not know how Amazon, which entirely coincidentally put Ret. Gen. Keith Alexander on the same board as Jeff Bezos, swung this one. PLUS: Neal Adams, RIP.
Newsletter As Elon Musk Seizes Twitter, Watch His Pentagon Moves The world's wealthiest troll, who recently claimed his satellite array defeated a Russian attack, is the exact sort of bullshitter the Defense Department drools over.
Newsletter COVID-19, Season 3 Opener It's my turn to get the coronavirus and, unfortunately, I'm writing about it. Don't worry, this isn't going to be one of those Substacks.
Newsletter Life After Being The Center of The World The hüzün of Istanbul, rendered by Orhan Pamuk, has some lessons for an America that sees itself as the axis on which the earth rotates.
Newsletter At War With the Pedophile Knowers Conservatives claim to care about keeping children safe from predation. At their own institutions, children are horrifyingly unsafe, and they’re all looking for the guy who did this.
Newsletter How The Forever Wars Were (Mis)Reported For 20 Years I was honored to be part of this discussion with Azmat Khan, Murtaza Hussain and Alice Speri at the International Journalism Festival.
Newsletter Thirty Months To The Beginning of Extinction The IPCC's latest report is a grim reminder that the U.S.' response to the Russian aggression in Ukraine threatens the long-term viability of human life on earth.
Newsletter How The U.S. Moves in Europe vs. How The U.S. Moves in Asia Prepare for more U.S. troops permanently stationed in Europe. Meanwhile, the Transportation Command outlines some logistical problems for U.S. hegemony in the Pacific.
