Tom Gallagher

Most Americans appear to know far more of the activities of the Russian and Ukrainian militaries than they know about their own.

If there were ever to be a Supreme Court that was going to rethink the whole hand-wringing 'cruel and unusual punishment' argument, wouldn’t this be the one?

It's up to you and me to decide what it means to be a socialist in 21st century America.

The American political system is fundamentally off.

As it is with so many issues, Trump has not really walked the walk on ending wars or bringing our troops home, but, he continues to talk the talk. And so must Joe Biden.

There is simply no reason to believe that reliance on the search for corporate profit represents anything like a sensible strategy for dealing with problems affecting the entire globe.

Anyone entertaining serious hopes for significant reordering of the American economy, of our race relations, of energy production and transportation, eventually realizes that all of this will require a simultaneous demilitarization of both our economy and our role in the world.