News Analysis

An Occupy Wall Street protester is detained following an attempt to re-enter Zuccotti Park, in New York on November 15, 2011. Hundreds of police officers arrested about 200 demonstrators …

These are the facts: first there was the Iranian plot to commit murder on American soil. It was a plot that was quickly debunked, but which still managed to …

If 2008 turnout and a recent Des Moines Register poll give an accurate picture of what would happen if the Iowa Republican presidential caucus were held today, that would …

Occupy Harvard, November 9, 2011. (Photo: pweiskel08) Over the last ten days, Harvard students twice stopped business as usual at this richest of all US private universities. …

There is and has been a war raging inside the USA for over 160 years. The wealthy elite of the country are the side conducting the war. On the …

The austerity gang seeking cuts to Social Security and Medicare have been vigorously promoting the myth that the elderly are an especially affluent and privileged group. Their argument is …

(Photo: Johnny Barber) In Kabul, the children are everywhere. You see them scrounging through trash. You see them doing manual labor in the auto body shops, the …

The man on the left served with the Marines in Southern Afghanistan from 2001-2006. The man on the right is now a public school teacher who served with the …

The U.S. is not so much ignoring the Arab Spring (since it cannot be ignored), but viewing it in the larger context — i.e., our cold-hot war with the …

A week ago, I produced a TV documentary on inside the Occupy Wall Street encampment in New York. It was already somewhat obsolete by the time it aired. …