The American Revolution was not a simple affair of all of us against all of them. And who actually gained from it? Not the Indians.read more

Obama has to be pulled in the right direction.read more

I’ll be blunt: The Progressive magazine needs your support.
It’s one of our most important voices, and yet it is facing an acute cash-flow crisis right now.read more

Reading Edward Rothstein’s sour commentary on Studs Terkel in the New York Times on Novembread more

It seems that Barack Obama and John McCain are arguing over which war to fight.read more

The very people who should know better, having criticized the hold of the media on the national mind, find themselves transfixed by the press, glued to the television set, as the candidates preen and read more

Now that Ohio and Texas are over, can we take a deep breath and come to our senses?

Election fever has seized the country, as it does every four years.read more

When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians, not to fall in meekly behind them. read more

The time is right, then, for a national campaign calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney.read more

The realities of the Iraq War cry out for the impeachment of a president who is responsible for death, destruction and chaos in that country.read more

Everything we do is important. Every little thing we do, every picket line we walk on, every letter we write, every act of civil disobedience we engage in, any recruiter that we talk to, any parent that we talk to, any GI that we talk to, any young person that we talk to, anything we do in class, outside of class, everything we do in the direction of a different world is important, even though at the moment they seem futile, because that's how change comes about.read more

A more honest estimate of ourselves as a nation would prepare us all for the next barrage of lies that will accompany the next proposal to inflict our power on some other part of the world. It might also inspire us to create a different history for ourselves, by taking our country away from the liars and killers who govern it, and by rejecting nationalist arrogance, so that we can join the rest of the human race in the common cause of peace and justice.read more

If we don't know history, then we are ready meat for carnivorous politicians and the intellectuals and journalists who supply the carving knives. But if we know some history, if we know how many times presidents have lied to us, we will not be fooled again.read more

The war against Iraq, the assault on its people, the occupation of its cities, will come to an end, sooner or later. The process has already begun.read more