War Made Easy War Made Easy
In 2005, Norman Solomon released his book, War Made Easy, which exposes the manner in which US presidents manage to sell war, like clockwork, through the same fallacious arguments...
Jul 26, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Specialist Town Goes to Washington Specialist Town Goes to Washington
Yesterday in the Cannon House Office Building, Room 334, it was standing room only as the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs held a hearing titled "PTSD and Personality Disorder...
Jul 26, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Our Veterans Have Spoken… Our Veterans Have Spoken…
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and our readers exchange views on "The Hidden War: Iraq Veterans Bear Witness" with authors Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian.
Jul 25, 2007 / Our Readers, Chris Hedges, and Laila Al-Arian
All Politics is International All Politics is International
Matthew Blake reports from Capitol Hill: In his 1961 inaugural address, John F. Kennedy gave a vision of American service that would lead to establishment of the Peace Corps, famo...
Jul 25, 2007 / Ari Berman
Purple America Purple America
Democrats are poised to seize a historic opportunity to win back voters in the South and West they started losing four decades ago.
Targeting Alaska’s Terrible Two Targeting Alaska’s Terrible Two
Alaska Senator Ted Stevens and Representative Don Young, the dynamic duo that brought us the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere," have long been known as the unrepentant kings o...
Jul 25, 2007 / Ari Berman
Clinton, Kissinger and the Corruptions of Empire Clinton, Kissinger and the Corruptions of Empire
Of all the corruptions of empire, few are darker than the claim that diplomacy must be kept secret from the citizenry. This hide-it-from-the people faith that only a cloistered g...
Jul 25, 2007 / John Nichols
A War Not Worth Fighting A War Not Worth Fighting
Public sentiment is solidly against the war; when will the President and political leaders of both parties have the courage to end it?
Jul 25, 2007 / Column / Robert Scheer
The Democrats Increased Funding for WHAT? The Democrats Increased Funding for WHAT?
I'm way late on this, so I hope you've already squawked to your congressperson about a particularly nasty bit of gristle buried in the big fat bratwurst that is the ...
Jul 25, 2007 / Katha Pollitt
Why Obama Got it Right Why Obama Got it Right
In Monday's debate, and with the benefit of having time to think through her response, HillaryClinton posed as the foreign policy sophisticate to Barack Obama the bold leader who ...
Jul 25, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel