Alfred McCoy is the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A TomDispatch regular, he is the author of In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of ...

We speak with historian Alfred McCoy about how the Russian invasion of Ukraine could possibly end. McCoy argues the European Union is essentially funding the war by buying energy from Russia, and says ...

U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines is calling China the “most consequential threat” to U.S. national security. Meanwhile, the Chinese parliament has unanimously voted to give Xi ...

Alfred W. McCoy is the Harrington professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of "In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power." ...

When President Nixon announced his open door to China a half century ago, that country was still reeling from the cascading disasters of Mao Zedong’s rule. China was weak and isolated. Today, China is ...

As a historian of Southeast Asia and what he calls the “covert netherworld,” McCoy makes ample use of documentary films in his classes at U. of Wisconsin-Madison. One film he shows students is Errol ...

Alfred W. McCoy is the J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, “From ...