How India Is Assassinating Gandhi’s legacy
Arun GandhiEditor's Note: The author of this piece is Mahatma Gandhi's grandson. On Jan. 30, 1948, my grandfather Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the great Indian leader and champion of nonviolence, fell...
View ArticlePentagon Sending Cops Billions in Excess Military Equipment
Lee FangProtesters in Ferguson, a small municipality outside of St. Louis, Missouri, were met in August with a police force reminiscent of recent demonstrations in Cairo or Kiev: law enforcement...
View ArticleSaudi Funding of 9/11 Attacks Still Cloaked in Secrecy
As'ad AbuKhalilThe revelation that Zacarias Moussaoui had “high-level” contacts with Saudi officials brought back attention to the Saudi role in the formation and financing of Al-Qaeda. It also revived...
View ArticleAs Oscars Near, 'American Sniper' Draws Protest
Ed RampellThis year’s Academy Award race for Best Picture is a classic Hollywood Left vs. Right contest, pitting a biopic about an American marksman against Selma, a film depicting Martin Luther King...
View ArticleThe Beating Heart of the Wristwatch
Martin EspadaAbove, the poet's father, Frank Espada. Image credit: Jason EspadaThis poem appeared in the February 2015 issue of our magazine. Subscribe to read the full issue online. My father worked...
View ArticleCan Islam Be Compatible with Feminism?
Amitabh PalThis story appeared in the March 2015 issue of our magazine. Subscribe to read the full issue online. It’s safe to say that the first two things Americans think of when they think of Muslims...
View ArticleHardliners on All Sides Undermining Iran's Nuclear Talks
Stephen ZunesReaching an interim nuclear deal with Iran would have been difficult enough even without hardliners in both Iran and the United States seeking to undermine them.Many U.S. critics of the...
View ArticleBlack Caucus Should Support U.S.-Iran deal
Clarence LusaneThe Congressional Black Caucus should enthusiastically back the U.S.–Iran nuclear agreement. There’s been lots of excitement about the deal—a global effort that has involved not just the...
View ArticleRemembering Stanley Kutler
Ruth ConniffStanley Kutler, the great Nixon historian, gadfly, and all-around mensch, has passed away. “He did the historical profession—and the American public—a huge favor with his lawsuit to open...
View ArticleBattling Islam's Bad Image
Amitabh PalWhen the word “Muslim” is in the news lately, it’s often connected with the word “terrorist.” A group of experts gathered recently at the University of Wisconsin to grapple with this problem...
View ArticleU.S. needs to stop fomenting violence in Yemen
Moustafa BayoumiThe United States response to the civil war in Yemen should be the opposite of what it’s doing.Since late January, Yemen—the poorest Arab country—has been embroiled in a bloody civil...
View ArticleIslam, Hate, and the Texas Shooting
Amitabh Pal The shooting at the cartoon exhibition in Texas is a new lowpoint in the U.S. culture war over Islam.Nothing can excuse the potentially murderous attack of the two gunmen, one of whom seems...
View ArticleKaplan’s Cure for the Middle East: Imperialism
Amitabh PalThe solution to the current mess in the Middle East is to bring back imperialism—that’s what an influential foreign policy thinker is straight-facedly claiming.Robert Kaplan has been...
View ArticleLatino Voices: U.S. was State Sponsor of Terror Against Cuba
Louis A. Perez Jr.Photo by Balint FöldesiOn May 29, the United States removed Cuba from the list of “state sponsors of terrorism” as one more step toward normalization of relations between the two...
View ArticleWho Created ISIS?
Mark FioreWith the fall of Ramadi in Iraq and Palmyra in Syria, fingers are pointing faster than you can say "Preemptive War." John McCain thinks the crazy Islamic extremists of ISIS wouldn't be...
View ArticleU.S. Needs to Stay Out of Iraq and Afghanistan
Jared KeyelPhoto by the U.S. ArmyThe United States must not get militarily involved again in Iraq or Afghanistan.The Obama Administration is contemplating setting up bases in Iraq and sending hundreds...
View ArticleHow the U.S. Can Solve the Crisis in Syria
Amitabh PalPhoto credit: "Azaz, Syria" by Christiaan Triebert - Flickr: Azaz, Syria. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.I recently saw a powerful PBS documentary on the Syrian civil war,...
View ArticleLessons on the 70th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Amitabh PalPhoto by Mrs. GemstoneOn the seventieth anniversary of the U.S. use of the atom bomb against Japan, Gar Alperovitz believes the most important lessons have not been learned.The bombings of...
View ArticleU.S. Airstrike on Doctors Without Borders Hospital is a War Crime
Submitted by Kathy Kelly on Mon, 10/05/2015 - 8:42pmKathy KellyPhoto by Jumping CheeseBefore the 2003 “Shock and Awe” bombing in Iraq, activists living in Baghdad would regularly go to hospitals,...
View ArticleHoward Zinn’s July 4 Wisdom Stands the Test of Time
Submitted by Howard Zinn on Sat, 07/02/2016 - 9:06amHoward ZinnPhoto: Historian and activist Howard Zinn.Editor’s Note: The late historian and Progressive columnist Howard Zinn shared these words with...
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