Nick Turse, The Nation

Nick Turse

The Nation

New York, NY, United States

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Recent:
  • Unknown
Past:
  • The Nation
  • Responsible Statecraft
  • Cashay
  • Countercurrents.org
  • Fair Observer
  • Common Dreams
  • The Intercept
  • Toward Freedom
  • BillMoyers.com

Past articles by Nick:

We Live in a World of Displacement

The number of people forcibly displaced by war, persecution, general violence, or human rights violations last year swelled to a staggering 84 million—a number only expected to grow. → Read More

Are we training future coup leaders and creating new terrorists in West Africa? –

Nine US mentees have overthrown governments since 2008, including one last week. Meanwhile, extremist attacks have increased 70 percent. → Read More

2 Decades of Military Force Got Us Nowhere

Twenty years of war, around $6 trillion, and nearly 1 million corpses later, there are now more terrorist groups than in 2001. → Read More

It Doesn’t Pay to Be Right About America’s Wars

This country hates to be reminded that not everyone was duped by the domino theory. → Read More

Will We Remember the Victims of the Kabul Drone Strike?

For 20 years, the War on Terror has brought death and destruction to countless countries. Will we remember the victims? → Read More

The Ghosts of ‘War Porn’ Haunt Me

Repeated exposure to violent imagery affects even those who weren’t physically present for the photo. → Read More

Exclusive: White House preparing order for enhanced airport screenings for Ebola

The Biden administration is moving forward with plans to screen airline passengers from two African countries arriving in the U.S. for Ebola, which will involve sending them to one of about a half-dozen designated airports, Yahoo News has learned. → Read More

Biden Should Do What Trump Never Could: End America’s Forever Wars

As we near 20 years of the War on Terror, it’s time for Biden to make good on his promise to end America’s failed military crusades. → Read More

The 20th Anniversary of the War on Terror Arrives

“This is a different kind of war, which we will wage aggressively and methodically to disrupt and destroy terrorist activity,” President George W. Bush announced a little more than two weeks after the 9/11 attacks. “Some victories will be won outside of public view, in tragedies avoided and threats eliminated. Other victories will be clear to all.” This year will mark the[Read More...] → Read More

There Are More People Being Displaced Than Ever Before

World War II displaced 60 million people. Today, climate change, conflicts and crises around the world have displaced nearly 80 million. → Read More

A Convergence of Calamities

Record Numbers of War-Displaced to Be Dwarfed by Those Driven From Their Homes by Climate Change I saw them for only a few seconds. One glimpse and they were gone. The young woman wore a brown headwrap, a yellow short-sleeved shirt, and a long pink, red, and blue floral-patterned skirt. She held the reins of the donkey pulling her rust-pink[Read More...] → Read More

John Hersey, Hiroshima and the End of World

Why we need a new John Hersey in this increasingly apocalyptic time of ours. → Read More

How a News Report on Hiroshima Helped Prevent Nuclear War

In 1946, a New Yorker report following six survivors of the Hiroshima atomic blast forced an entire country to look in the mirror. → Read More

John Hersey, Hiroshima, and the End of World

Whether you’re reading this with your morning coffee, just after lunch, or on the late shift in the wee small hours of the morning, it’s 100 seconds to midnight. That’s just over a minute and a half. And that should be completely unnerving. It’s the closest to that witching hour we’ve ever been. Since 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has[Read More...] → Read More

The Black Lives Matter Protests Are a Tipping Point in US History

Will America inch closer to its long-articulated ideals, or are we on the brink of a Trumpian backlash? → Read More

Will the Death of George Floyd Mark the Rebirth of America?

They were relegated to the protest equivalent of a ghetto. Their assigned route shunted them to the far fringes of the city. Their demonstration was destined for an ignominious demise far from any main thoroughfare, out of sight of most apartment buildings, out of earshot of most homes, best viewed from a dinghy bobbing in the Hudson River.Those at the head of the march had → Read More

Will the Death of George Floyd Mark the Rebirth of America?

A Man Forced to Die with His Face Pressed to the Ground May Yet Shift the Earth Under Your Feet They were relegated to the protest equivalent of a ghetto. Their assigned route shunted them to the far fringes of the city. Their demonstration was destined for an ignominious demise far from any main thoroughfare, out of sight of most[Read More...] → Read More

Pentagon War Game Includes Scenario for Military Response to Domestic Gen Z Rebellion

The 2018 war game envisioned a “Zbellion” by a tech-savvy generation that no longer believed in the American dream. → Read More

In Just Months, the Coronavirus Has Killed More Americans Than 20 Years of War in Vietnam

An appalling milestone of death has been reached in the Covid-19 pandemic that Donald Trump has downplayed over and over again. → Read More

Misinformation Hampered Ebola Response. The Same Thing Could Happen With Coronavirus.

Beating back Ebola required a pitched battle not just against the disease, but also against lies, conspiracy theories, and attacks on public health workers. → Read More