George McGovern

George McGovern, senator from South Dakota from 1962 to 1980 and Democratic candidate for President in 1972, is the author of The Third Freedom: Ending Hunger in Our Time (Simon & Schuster).

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2005

  • The Legacy of Four Women

    December 21, 2005

    On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the murders of four American churchwomen in El Salvador, George McGovern and Representative Jim McGovern journey to El Salvador to assess what has changed and how the legacy of the churchwomen affect human rights worldwide.

  • Gene McCarthy

    December 15, 2005

    Eugene McCarthy was a pure original, a great and good man, whose fundamental historical achievement was to be the standard-bearer for a moral and philosophical campaign against the Vietnam War.

  • Patriotism Is Nonpartisan

    March 24, 2005

    Challenging a mistaken war can take more courage than fighting one.

2003

  • The Reason Why

    April 3, 2003

    Bush's motives have more to do with empire and profit than with liberating Iraq.

2002

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