Obama stands to reprise not the courage of Harry Truman, but rather the failure of Lyndon Johnson, whose bold and ambitious 1964-65 Great Society anti-poverty and civil rights programs were buried in the quagmire of Vietnam.
Wendy Block | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
I remember him every time a street person asks for money, when a guy holds up a cardboard sign saying something like "Viet Nam vet. Will work for food," when news stories cover soldiers returned from Iraq.
BBC NEWS | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
A court in Vietnam has sentenced a man to three years in prison for hanging a banner over a bridge in Hanoi which called for multi-party democracy....
B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 08.18.2009 | Media
I wanted my kids to watch a few examples of what the news was like when I was their age so I put on the clip of Cronkite's coverage of the Kennedy assassination. "Wow", my son said. "That was so quiet and so powerful."
Brad Schreiber | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
Morris said, "very few people today know about the firebombing and hardly anybody knows about Robert McNamara's role in the firebombing".
Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
Seeing all the blogs on the Huffington Post made me realize that Americans of all political persuasions care deeply about this issue of oppression in Iran.
Michael Sigman | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics
Though it's unlikely Nader or anyone else will prevent Obama from getting elected next week, "Naderists" either think he would be a better president, or, he is a convenient vehicle of protest.
Mark Joseph | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics
Obama's performance at Saddleback can be blamed on strategic mistake his campaign made by scheduling such an important event so close to the end of his Hawaiian vacation. His mind was elsewhere.
Phyllis Bennis | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics