Florida High School Students Stage Walkout To Protest Gun Violence
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. ― They're furious about political stonewalling, and most of them aren't yet old enough to vote. Two days after a gunman used an assault-style rifle to kill 17…
Yes. Let’s Talk About Pocahontas.
The following are the prepared remarks of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) for a speech given at the National Congress of American Indians on Wednesday, February 14, 2018. Thank you for…
The Things We See but Don’t Say in the Afghanistan War
Jordan, a young lieutenant at the time, calls it the "moment he realized shit was going to get real that year." See, we (Bandit Troop, 4th Squadron, 4th Cavalry) had…
The Ghost of Fascism in the Age of Trump
In the age of Trump, history neither informs the present nor haunts it with repressed memories of the past. It simply disappears. Memory has been hijacked. This is especially troubling…
Why Are We Still in Afghanistan?
It must have seemed like a safe, cheap, and easy idea back in 1979 when US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, with President Carter's blessing, set about harassing the Russian…