As the year ends, the temptation to dust off the hands and say "Well, maybe 2014 will be better" is a strong one. But as we look a...

[ Today, I attended a day-long Conference on the Veterans Peace Movement. Activist from vets groups, military families and other sections of...

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of addressing Dr. Mark Naison's class on the '60s at Fordham. Since I spoke from a couple of scribbled...

[My friend M sent me the following thoughts which I post with permission.] Our son-in-law, Lee, earns his living as a fisherman in Key West....

Though the national student strike was three weeks old on May 21, 1970, it was not yet over. While this is a day late for the 40th anniversa...

[Crossposted from the Iraq Moratorium website .] It’s no surprise that the anti-war movement is in a lull. The war in Afghanistan this mont...

[This summer, I had several conversations with Zach Rudes, a very perceptive young writer, on the heroin epidemic in NW Connecticut, where h...

A million dollars a year! That's what it costs to put one--that's right, one--soldier or Marine on the ground in Afghanistan and to ...

Yesterday marked the fifth anniversary of a George Bush quote so spectacularly dumb that it will make any greatest hits collectio...

[Not long after I saw my friend Jeri Reed, mother of an Iraq vet and a fighter to end this catastrophic war since before it began...

Seems those meddling kids in SDS are at it again, with a new issue of the SDS News Bulletin . Some stuff about creative uses of ...

in a few days, after it's made the rounds of teh Intertubes, but it's a pretty damn funny anti-McCain version of the mas...