History

The gun carnage will never end unless the Rightu2019s bogus history of the Second Amendment is exploded and the real intent of the Framers is explained.

“The most pernicious development is the incorporation of the black prophetic tradition into the Obama imperial project,” Cornel West tells Chris Hedges.

Thinking of Obama's badly tainted legacy, I return to King's admonition that we judge others not by the color of their skin but rather by the content of their …

A circle of Lakota women fight against alcohol addiction on their reservation and declare zero tolerance for the counties that profit from their community's destruction.

In July 1969, a leak of chemical weapons on Okinawa sickened more than 20 US soldiers and laid bare one of the Pentagon's biggest Cold War secrets: the storage …

August 6, 2013 marks the 68th anniversary of the horrific atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Other than the subsequent bomb dropped on Nagasaki, thankfully we have not used another nuclear …

Eduardo Galeano, one of the great global writers, takes us from 1916 to late tomorrow night via eight little excerpts from his new book, Children of the Days: A …

Thomas Jefferson is admired for his elegant prose in the Declaration of Independence, but he was a world-class hypocrite.

If we want to rekindle that spirit of 1776, not just daydream about it, our course stands clear. We need to create a more equal America.

The National Security apparatus that seemed to have lost much of its purpose with the fall of the Soviet Union got a new lease on life.