The New York Times Presents: Russia for Dummies

Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. Jonathan Mahler, a sportswriter who hit it big with his 2005 book Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City, has turned his attention to something that...

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Don’t Forget the Victims of Our Wars

Rozina Ali reports on some of the civilian casualties caused by U.S. airstrikes in Yemen: Hassan’s brothers were already there, digging through the rubble, searching for the remains of a family. “They were scattered and torn into pieces,” he said. Rescuers recovered...

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The Nonsensical Case for the Illegal War in Yemen

Kenneth McKenzie is the former head of CENTCOM, and he thinks the illegal war in Yemen is just great. Here is his defense of Trump’s bombing campaign: First, we’re asserting the importance of free passage on the global commons; we are the world’s greatest maritime...

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