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Andrea Mazzarino: The Russification of America

On Being Female in an Increasingly Fascist Country

December 2, 2025 · 9 Comments

Andrea Mazzarino: How MAGA Uses Violence to Consolidate Power

Cruelty is the point.

August 28, 2025 · 6 Comments

Andrea Mazzarino: Broken Heart Syndrome in Trump’s America

I’m the wife of a U.S. military veteran and the mother of children who have been encouraged by those in our family and community to become fighters “like Daddy.”

December 11, 2024 · 6 Comments

Andrea Mazzarino: America’s War on Terror and the Wasting of Our Democracy

The rapid pace of Gaza’s descent into famine is remarkable among conflicts.

July 9, 2024 · 7 Comments

Andrea Mazzarino: Americans in Pain

Confronting the Phantom Limbs of America’s Foreign Wars

June 15, 2023 · 4 Comments

Andrea Mazzarino: The Army We Don’t See

In 2019, there were 50% more contractors than troops in the U.S. Central Command region that includes Afghanistan, Iraq, and 18 other countries in the Middle East, as well as Central and South Asia.

May 10, 2023 · 2 Comments

Andrea Mazzarino: Children of War

Armed violence has percolated into just about every aspect of this country’s being — from violent video games to still-spiking mass shootings to local police forces armed with weapons of war.

March 7, 2023 · 3 Comments

Andrea Mazzarino: War as Terrorism

As a Navy spouse of more than 10 years and a therapist who specializes in treating military families and those fleeing foreign wars, I believe that the post-9/11 wars have finally begun to come home in a variety of ways, including how we think about violence

June 7, 2022 · 2 Comments

Andrea Mazzarino: The Costs of (Another) War

When We Could Be Fighting Climate Change

March 31, 2022 · 2 Comments

Andrea Mazzarino: How the War Came Home, Big Time

For the Proud Boys to say that they reject racism and venerate housewives did little more than provide them with a veneer of social acceptability, even as they planned armed counter-rallies in progressive cities like Providence and Portland with the explicit purpose of inciting violence among Black Lives Matter protesters and their allies.

October 29, 2020 · 3 Comments

Andrea Mazzarino: The War Zone Is America

A Military Spouse’s Perspective on Racism and Armed Violence in the United States

June 23, 2020 · 1 Comment

Andrea Mazzarino: Bearing Witness to the Costs of War

I’m a scholar of the war on terror’s civilian casualties, as well as a military spouse. Until the suffering ends, all of us should bear witness to the costs of war.

December 3, 2019 · Leave a comment

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