61 years ago this week, the United States became the first and (to this day) only nation ever to use a nuclear weapon. It happened twice. First "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later (before the impact of Hiroshima could fully reverberate), "Fat Man"...

My mother rang early this morning. "Your movie's on the cover of Time!" she exclaimed. Why We Fight, my film about the forces that drive American war-making has just come out on DVD, and my mom knows that every bit of coverage the film gets keeps Americans thinking about the...

Today, Vice President Cheney will deliver a speech to the state legislature in his home state of Wyoming. It's familiar turf - every morning news report today has been carefully designed to inform the public that the visit was a pre-arranged engagement, lest any of us see it as a...

Dick Cheney's America is a place so cutthroat that a 78-year old man gets shot by his own friend and the dominant response across the country is laughter.

Now I don't know Mr. Whittington. But I have never laughed at anyone being shot in my life before. Let alone someone...

Recently, as the release of my new film Why We Fight approached, I visited Washington for a follow-up visit with one of the Senators who appears in the film. Security at the Russell Office Building being lighter than I expected, I found myself searching the halls for the Senator's...

At a time of war, scandal, and national disunity, people across the American family are increasingly wondering how we got here. 45 years ago this week, departing President Dwight Eisenhower gave us our answer.

It was in his 1961 farewell address to the American people that Eisenhower coined the...