Sanctions are part of a failed foreign policy playbook. Stop relying on them. Rep. Ilhan Omar makes the case against the use of broad, sweeping economic sanctions against entire countries.

Ben Rhodes’ false atonement for the Yemen war. Sarah Lazare calls out Rhodes for his attempts to spin the Obama administration’s support for the war on Yemen and his recent convenient transformation into a critic of the war.

Killing me softly with militarism. William Astore objects to “the strange militarization of everything” in America.