…war-making power historically by republics. I don’t have much to add to the substance of the immediate debate. Killing an Iranian general was certainly an act of war. It was…

…war is a war criminal. Wars take too many innocent lives; cost too much. Wars cause lasting damage to those who fight them and to their families; the costs of…

…fashion declared war on the United States, most recently be executing a U.S. citizen and threatening the same against his compatriot. Which leads to this perhaps counterintuitive suggestion. Declare war…

…big difference between the two wars is that Vietnam beyond some point engendered a massive anti-war protest movement, while the longer Afghan war has not even to now triggered anything…

…provide needed medical and psychological care for them has been undermined by profiteering, market fundamentalism, and political dysfunction. Like the Postal Service, whose mission is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution,…

…new argument: the war powers the Constitution assigned to Congress enabled it to pass laws that would help the war effort. That included attacking enslavement. As Confederate armies racked up…

…the importance of workers in the industrializing economy and to warn politicians that they could not be ignored.  Less than 20 years before, northern men had fought a war to…

…history the history of war that began with Stanley Karnow’s book “Vietnam.” Eventually, I realized I couldn’t understand the Vietnam war without understanding the Cold War, I couldn’t understand the…

…of Bowie’s oeuvre had provided a level of patronage that’s inconceivable for a musician of Bowie’s bent today…he spent the Nineties as a free agent, jumping from label to label,…

…high cost of American health care. I begin by explaining the origin and meaning of the “single payer” label. I will then describe the two defects in S 1129 in…