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Recent news reports have been filled with results of one poll after another after another showing that President Biden continues to weaken as a...
Recent news reports have been filled with results of one poll after another after another showing that President Biden continues to weaken as a...
With the start of presidential primaries just a few months away, the crux of the matter is that Democrats in Congress are opting for self-focused,...
When Joe Biden flew out of Hanoi on Sept. 11, he was leaving a country where U.S. warfare caused roughly 3.8 million Vietnamese deaths. But like every...
No matter how many lies it tells or how many people it kills, being the United States government means never having to say you’re sorry.
This article is adapted from the introduction to Norman Solomon's book "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine."...
Remembering the day that a war designed never to end started.
War is all about inflicting sufficient violence to achieve goals; that was the basic method of the pro-Trump mob that attacked the Capitol in a...
Ever since Donald Trump became a former president, news outlets and commentators have cited polls showing that many Republicans believe violence...
At first, I admit, I was a bit flattered to learn that online entrepreneurs were selling study guides for my new book. I thought of CliffsNotes from...
Six decades after Martin Luther King Jr. warned of “guided missiles and misguided men,” the missiles are even more terrible, the people ordering...
Since the bombings, presidents have routinely offered rhetorical camouflage for reckless nuclear policies, rolling the dice for global catastrophe.
In 1980, when I asked the press office at the U.S. Department of Energy to send me a listing of nuclear bomb test explosions, the agency mailed me an...
For entrenched elites in Washington, using taxpayer money to shred the bodies of children and other civilians isn’t a big deal when there’s...
Midway through his stunning new book "Soldiers Don't Go Mad," author Charles Glass quotes a declaration from the Times of London on Aug. 18, 1917:...
A new book on World War I by journalist Charles Glass, who has covered recent wars in the Middle East, offers an opportunity for us to compare then...
Given the destructiveness of U.S. militarism, a strong argument can be made that true patriotism involves preventing and stopping wars instead of...
A recent Justice Department report concluded that "systemic" racial bias in the Minneapolis Police Department "made what happened to George Floyd...
We must realize that a nation so profoundly affected by individual and structural racism at home is apt to be affected by such racism in its approach...
When Daniel Ellsberg died on Friday (16 June), the world lost a transcendent whistleblower with a powerful ethos of compassion
Daniel Ellsberg died on Friday at his home in California. He was 92. With his passing, the world loses a transcendent whistleblower with a powerful...
We loved him not only for what he had done but also for what he kept doing, for who he was, luminously, ongoing. The power of his vibrant example...
In an interview before his death, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower urged the media and the government to be more honest about America’s bombing of...
On the first day of March 2022, visitors to the New York Times homepage saw a headline across the top
June 5, 2023
An agreement in which Pentagon spending was off the table but sharp cuts to programs that provide a lifeline to the nation's most vulnerable...
President Biden meets with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy at the White House to discuss the debt limit on May 22. The budget deal reached doesn’t...
With poll numbers frighteningly low and the stakes astronomically high, here's what the president should say as he assesses his 2024 run.
Twenty years ago, President George W. Bush landed in a twin-engine Navy jet on an aircraft carrier, strode across the deck in a bulky flight suit and...
The disgraced former president's rhetorical victory lap that came before protracted bloodshed deserves all of its notoriety 20 years later.
In just a few words — "Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future" — George Orwell summed...
Vladimir Putin's announcement over the weekend that Russia will deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus marked a further escalation of potentially...
Everything that can be done must done to avert global nuclear annihilation.
March 22, 2023
Vast quantities of lies from top U.S. government officials led up to the Iraq invasion. Now, marking its 20th anniversary, the same media outlets...
Vast quantities of lies from top U.S. government officials led up to the Iraq invasion. Now, marking its 20th anniversary, the same media outlets that...
When the New York Times featured an opinion article by billionaire Michael Bloomberg this week, it harmonized with a crescendo of other recent pleas...
Israel has been the fruition of a Zionist dream, but at the same time a real-life nightmare for Palestinian people.
To understand the current fierce attacks on the progressive leadership of the Nevada Democratic Party, it's helpful to recall the panicked reaction...
What's happening to Judith Whitmer and her allies in Nevada is a classic battle between top-down corporate money and bottom-up progressive...
After three decades in the Senate, Dianne Feinstein has announced that she will not seek re-election in 2024, giving Californians a valuable...
Having his way with the Democratic National Committee is a slam dunk because Biden supplies the ball, hires the referees, owns the nets, and controls...
The president doesn’t want to ask the question of loyal Democratic voters because he probably wouldn’t like the answer.
Having Biden at the top of the ticket would be a serious liability up and down Democratic ballots nationwide.
Applying adjectives like "moderate" to congressional Republicans is much worse than merely bad word choices.
For the electoral prospects of the Democratic Party in 2024, representing the status quo invites cascading disasters