In 2020, the Pentagon budgeted $18.6 billion for its Afghanistan operations. That level of investment could pay up-front refugee relocation costs of $15,148 for 1.2 million people.

Rural prison towns need jobs. There are better ones than guarding people in cages.

Even with climate disasters all around us, nonviolent environmental demonstrations face fierce police repression. Why?

For the past 40 years, the U.S. military has turned retired and decommissioned military equipment-- such as ships and tanks-- into artificial reefs.

By raising taxes on the wealthy and redirecting other public resources, we can meet everyone’s needs and strengthen our economy.

America is back—to the same old, same old.

Pouring more money into endless wars, nuclear weapons, overseas bases, and boondoggle weapons programs won't protect anyone.

For me, the military wasn’t a way out of poverty. Instead, militarism is why so many of us are poor in the first place.

Leaked IRS data shows just how little billionaires pay in taxes.

Twenty years of military quagmire of the Middle East has contributed to the fraying of the U.S. economy even as China has rapidly become the new center of global capital accumulation.