“If liberty means anything at all,” George Orwell wrote, “it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” From all…
Posts published by “Norman Solomon”
A simple twist of fate has set President Obama’s second Inaugural Address for January 21, the same day as the Martin Luther King Jr. national…
One of the worst things about today’s ultramodern systems of communication is hiding in plain sight: They waste our time. Sure, gizmos like computers and…
A specter is haunting America — the specter of populism. Now that Patrick Buchanan has left the Republican fold to seek the Reform Party's presidential…
How important is the pain of the past? Should people strive to confront it or try to forget it? Such questions routinely underlie news stories…
After Saddam Hussein's pledge of full cooperation with UN weapons inspectors led President Clinton to cancel air attacks at the last minute in mid-November, a…