W.J. Astore: Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump this fall?
Tuesday’s primary results suggest it’s Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump come this fall. What does this mean for America? Hillary is the easiest to gauge. She’s been in politics for … Continue reading
Peter Van Buren: FBI Has Plan To Spy On High School Students
The FBI is instructing high schools across the country to report students who criticize government policies as potential future terrorists, warning that such “extremists” are in the same category as … Continue reading
Utah Phillips: The most American thing you can do is to dissent
The state can’t give you freedom, and the state can’t take it away. You’re born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for … Continue reading
Mattea Kramer: Killing Someone Else’s Beloved
Promoting the American Way of War in Campaign 2016 The crowd that gathered in an airplane hangar in the desert roared with excitement when the man on stage vowed to … Continue reading
Patricia A. Nugent: Give Me Hill!
I’m uncomfortable when people pronounce Bernie Sanders unelectable. It unfairly dismisses his followers’ potential to succeed and short-circuits his right to promote his platform. If he’s the nominee, I want … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: Urge Your Representatives to Vote for the Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act
Take time out from presidential politics to urge elected officials to vote for Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act Strange as it might seem, we can predict genocides and other atrocities … Continue reading
Mike James: After A Line By Ho Chi Minh
ho chi minh in prison took to chanting poems said, what else is there no mattress, paper blanket alone in a cell i can only turn around … Continue reading
Andrew Bacevich: Don’t Cry for Me, America
What Trumpism Means for Democracy Whether or not Donald Trump ultimately succeeds in winning the White House, historians are likely to rank him as the most consequential presidential candidate of … Continue reading
Michael Simms: Why I support Bernie Sanders for President
America is in crisis. We have 662 overseas bases in 150 foreign countries, we are engaged in military attacks on another 135 countries, and yet we feel less safe than ever before. … Continue reading
New Poll: One in Five Trump Supporters Opposed to Emancipation Proclamation
A new poll sponsored by The Economist and conducted by YouGov has found that nearly one in five supporters of Donald Trump don’t approve of the freeing of slaves in the … Continue reading
Alfred W. McCoy: How a Pink Flower Defeated the World’s Sole Superpower
America’s Opium War in Afghanistan After fighting the longest war in its history, the United States stands at the brink of defeat in Afghanistan. How can this be possible? How … Continue reading
Ann Jones: How Veterans Return From America’s Wars
In 2010, I began to follow U.S. soldiers down a long trail of waste and sorrow that led from the battle spaces of Afghanistan to the emergency room of the … Continue reading
William J. Astore: The U.S. Military Suffers from Affluenza
Showering the Pentagon with Money and Praise The word “affluenza” is much in vogue. Lately, it’s been linked to a Texas teenager, Ethan Couch, who in 2013 killed four people … Continue reading
Video: Noam Chomsky on Clinton vs Sanders
Noam Chomsky sits down with Mehdi Hasan to discuss the US presidential election and the rise of Islamophobia. Professor Chomsky says Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has the “best policies”, … Continue reading
