The Anxieties of Empire

The US Hastens Its Own Decline and Israel’s Too by ANDREW LEVINE There are “get-out-of-jail-free” cards that come with superpower status, but they don’t always work. Still, it is better to be a superpower than […]

Once More, Into the Quagmire

NOVANEWS The Chronicle of Chaos by JASON HIRTHLER More than 191,000 dead in Syria during the civil war. Four to five million displaced. Nearly 3,800 slaughtered in Iraq in September alone. The numbers mount. But […]