by John Whitehead — Although the Ukraine-Russia war and the Gaza war have dominated the news, other countries have been suffering violent...

by John Whitehead — I have periodically written about violent conflicts that are generally overlooked in the United States. In 2023, I...

by John Whitehead — While world attention has understandably been focused over the past month on the Israel-Hamas violence centered...

by John Whitehead — The Afghan people are suffering today from both the Taliban’s repressive rule and international economic penalties...

by Sophie Trist — Hamas’s recent attack on Israel, which left over a thousand unarmed civilians dead, is unquestionably a heinous,...

By John Whitehead — The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has erupted into a terrible new wave of violence. To date, thousands of people,...

by John Whitehead — More than two years after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, the Afghan people’s situation remains dire. The...

by John Whitehead — Niger was thrown into a crisis this summer when the country’s military overthrew its democratically elected president...

by Samuel B. Parker — As war ravaged the Korean peninsula in the waning days of July and the early days of August 1950, an event —...

by John Whitehead — The life and career of J. Robert Oppenheimer was tailor-made for dramatization. A brilliant theoretical physicist who...

by Aimee Murphy — Today, my friend Sarah is going to do a silent demonstration of folding a paper crane, in honor of all those lost at...

by Samuel B. Parker — On Friday, July 7th, as the war in Ukraine neared its 500th day, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that the...

by John Whitehead — The brief uprising in Russia by members of the Wagner Group private security force this past weekend was a warning....

by John Whitehead — Although the war between Ukraine and Russia has dominated the news, other countries have been suffering through their...

by John Whitehead — A US contractor was killed by a drone attack in northeastern Syria earlier this spring. The drone, which US officials...

by Sean Wild — Representative Jim McGovern of Massachusetts and Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon introduced H. Res. 77 into the...

by John Whitehead — Although the war between Ukraine and Russia has dominated the news, other countries have been suffering through their...

by Samuel B. Parker — “A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our...

by Samuel B. Parker — A humanitarian crisis is ravaging Yemen and, despite numerous promises, U.S. politicians — including President...

by John Whitehead — The Ukraine-Russia war has highlighted a relatively subtle but deeply disturbing trend in warfare: a growing reliance...