From Egypt and the Gulf monarchies to Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States continues to exercise control over nations that produce or house gateways for the transport of oil through alliances with corrupt leaders who are unaccountable to their people. ..…

Those scholars still fighting the establishment over the folly of Iraq War should take note of the growing belief among many progressives and conservatives that United States should be engaged fewer military interventions in the world given Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.. It's fairly easy..…

Afghanistan, as noted, was seen as a stepping-stone to Iraq and the Gulf, but it was also important for other strategic reasons. ..…

The year 2013 marked the anniversary of one of the important foundational texts of second-wave Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, exposing it as problem, not individual one. ..…