Two Occupations Ending in Hopeless Disasters

NOVANEWS No Peace and No Democracy by GARY LEUPP U.S. military occupations typically have two aspects, which are, at least theoretically, destructive and productive respectively. The classic U.S. occupation—the one held up as the model […]

America’s New Apartheid

NOVANEWS Segregation by Incarceration by GARRY LEECH Many people associate the mass imprisonment of a population with authoritarian regimes. Consequently, many Americans are surprised when they learn that the country that incarcerates more of its […]

How Obama Lost Iraq

NOVANEWS The War on Terror Has Failed by SHAMUS COOKE The fall of Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, to an al-Qaeda linked militia elicited a curiously muted response from the Obama administration. Yes, Obama “denounced” the […]