As we remember Howard Zinn five years after his passing, let’s count him among the many social justice heroes and teachers who offer proof that people’s efforts make a difference — that ordinary people can change the world.

They would think Washington has invented a system so dumb, so extreme and so fundamentalist that changing it will surely prove a stunningly difficult task.

Four months into the Iraq War 3.0, the cracks are showing -- on the battlefield and at the Pentagon.

Both right and left too often ignore, if not deny, that Americans are radicals at heart.

What some of last century's cast of characters -- and the lives they led -- tell us about humanity.

Bill recalls his time in Washington and reflects on how much more he knows now about events like the Gulf of Tonkin resolution -- passed 40 years ago this week -- than he did when it was happening before his eyes.

Veteran photojournalist Michael Kamber has put together a photographic and oral history of the Iraq War to document photojournalism in the war.

This week Bill speaks with investigative journalist Charles Lewis about why facts, logic and reason are often missing in the rush to war.

Andrew Bacevich asserts that the "impoverished state of US foreign-policy discourse is laid bare" in a recent New Republic essay by historian Robert Kagan.

Today, Obama is stuck in the same situation John F. Kennedy faced in the early 1960s.