The last time I think a prime time NBC show originated anywhere in Vietnam, it was a Bob Hope special, he was entertaining the troops on some base and it certainly wasn't live.
Joe Lauria | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
A Political Odyssey is a parallel history of Mike Gravel's political career and the rise of the American military industry, the expansion of US territory and the growth of presidential power.
Jon Soltz | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
You would assume that given all the whining over General Clark's legitimate point, that John McCain had some obvious answer to the question.
Paul Waldman | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
There's a myth out there that McCain is reluctant to exploit his Vietnam POW story for political advantage, so modest and full of integrity is he. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
A McCain "Truth Squad" is now alleging that Obama's true vulnerability isn't that he didn't see action in Vietnam, but that he did -- on the side of America's enemies.
Jon Soltz | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
While we should all honor McCain's service, that doesn't mean we should necessarily honor it by putting him in the White House to take up George W. Bush's third term.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media
McCain has joked that the media is "his base" of support. It was a funny line, but there is a truth at its core: the media has been hard on Obama but unbelievably light on McCain. And this has to stop. Now.
Byron Williams | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics
Given our current state, it is understandable that we would remember 1968 and Vietnam. But it was 1963 when we realized that hope and hostility lived, and continue to live, in close proximity.
Peter Scheer | Posted 06.11.2008 | Media
When the biggest Vietnamese-language newspaper in the country, gave offense to its readers in an obscure but controversial article about a work of art, it triggered an explosion of protests among readers.
Norman MacAfee | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
Robert Kennedy believed that politics was an honorable profession, and that government could be used for good. His murder sent a message of hopelessness, that nothing was possible anymore.
Mike Bonifer | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
The GameChanger is coming off a campaign that ran for seventeen months across the world's media networks, generating transactions worth what must have...
Russ Wellen | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
Those who belittle McClellan for being a day late and a dollar short are missing the point. However faint his whistle, that he blew it at all showed growth on the part of a man trained as a parrot.
Liz Hamburg | Posted 06.09.2008 | Business
I just returned from my friends' wedding in Vietnam. It was a multi-cultural extravaganza. The bride is Bulgarian, the groom American and they both li...
Larry Beinhart | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
The Great Republican Disaster, from Reagan to Bush the Lesser, has been the Time of the Unreal. Recently there have been signs of hope. Yes. Hope means Obama. He speaks of reality.
Victor LaPorte | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
Support our troops and veterans. Support the 21st Century GI Bill!
Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics
McCain's life of power and privilege so closely resembles that of George W. Bush that the prospect of a John McCain presidency is cataclysmic.
Spencer Ackerman | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
Every army of liberation has a half-life after which it turns into an army of occupation...You can extend that half-life by being considerate of the population ... But over time, again, you are not one of them.
Michael Shaw | Posted 05.01.2008 | Media
Now that the U.S. is actively bombing Sadr City, what is the difference between what the Americans are doing now, and what the Israelis did in Qana during the '06 Lebanon war?
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics
Today, with the United States entering its sixth year of occupying Iraq, RFK's words about Vietnam still have resonance.
Peter Smith | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
Judging from the fighting spirit of the Iraqi soldiers who abandoned their positions in Sadr City yesterday, they can't bring themselves to believe the American engine will ever quit.
Andrew Gumbel | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics
The subtext I hear from him is this: I'm Bill Clinton, so you have to take whatever I tell you, and by the way you've got to vote for my wife, out of fear if not out of respect.
Harold Pollack | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics
Sen. McCain promises more than our nation, or the Iraqi nation, can reasonably deliver. His rhetoric denigrates the search for painful but realistic alternatives.
Dan Agin | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics
Since it's the American people who are shedding blood and money for the Iraq War, hiding anything at all about the war from them is both un-American and dangerous. Is Petraeus capable of straight talk?
Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics
Five years ago today, a NYT photograph seemed like a cruel joke, or a Photoshop prank, awakening nearly everyone in America to the bone-chilling reality of a quick war that was threatening to turn into a longer slog.
Stan Goff | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
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Harry Shearer | Posted 07.13.2008 | Entertainment