I've expressed my disappointment that the Democratic primaries haven't thrown up a more demographically electable antiwar candidate (here and here). I've been accused of over-emphasizing demographics but, judging by Michael Medved's "The Blue-Eyed Rule," the opposite...

Amongst all the media teeth-gnashing over the question of whether McCain did special favors for his blondie lobbyist,  his wife’s sweetheart deal for massive narcotics theft in the 1990s has been forgotten. If a poor black woman from Anacostia had committed the...

The Minneapolis Post interviews Dan Ellsberg: "MP: What are your reading habits? "DE: I start the day by looking at Antiwar.com and then Commondreams.org. And I also read the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle every morning. But the newspapers can be very...

I've got the scoop on Ron Paul -- he's back!

David D. Friedman & his readers suggest some things Obama can do get libertarian Republicans to vote for him ("Thoughts for Obama"): "[A] possibility that occurs to me is to take advantage of the budgetary implications of Obama's opposition to the Iraq War. If the...

AEI’s Reuel Marc Gerecht now believes that Washington should offer to engage in unconditional, high-level talks and even normalize diplomatic relations with Iran…apparently in order to rally support for war. In a New York Times op-ed misleadingly entitled...

It must be nice to be able to take a vacation -- or to tell your readers that "postings will resume when I feel better." So la-dee-dah! Unfortunately, here at Antiwar.com, the word "vacation" is missing from our lexicon. Not only that, but there ain't no sick leave...

From Laura Rozen, writing on the Mother Jones blog: "It was only then, after the Serbian occupation had been driven out, that I learned an ugly lesson: that sometimes when the oppressed are liberated, they act with the brutality of their former tormenters. In the...

OmiGOD! -- did you know that Obama is not only a "secret smoker," he's also a secret member of the Communist Party? By today's standards, the former is much worse, but the always reliably nutty Cliff Kincaid -- I once appeared on a tv show with him, in which he called...

I must register my dissent on Sam Koritz's thesis -- explained in a two-part post on antiwar.com --  that "what the country wants" is a white, Protestant, male of northern European descent who is "mildly" opposed to the Iraq war. From what I can make of it, Sam's...