March 28, 2018

The Left's Missing Foreign Policy
On the pressing need, fifteen years after the Iraq invasion, for a non-imperial vision of the US and the world.
Today, on right and left, that past cold war consensus has cracked. While Trump doubts whether there is much of an ethical distinction between the US and Russia, activists on the left have no trouble rejecting both capitalism and empire. What is desperately needed now is a fully developed non-imperial articulation of American foreign policy—one that could challenge the Democratic Party establishment in the same way that Sanders’s call for “Medicare for All” has done.