Authoritarianism Feeds on a Bloated Military Budget

Our piece for Common Dreams

Authoritarianism Feeds on a Bloated Military Budget
Detail of photo by Morgan Housel

Costs of War's Catherine Lutz and I wrote for Common Dreams about how the enormous U.S. military budget helped bring us here: "Squeezed domestic spending and extravagant military spending have widened inequality, with dire consequences for democracy."

Read the op-ed here: https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/authoritarianism-military-budget