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Led by Senators Ed Markey (D-MA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), two of the Senate’s strongest proponents of nuclear nonproliferation, 10 Senators sent a letter to President Obama encouraging him to [...]

Last week, the New York Times published a leaked draft of an internal State Department memo signed by 51 U.S. diplomats (an unprecedented number) calling on President Obama to expand the U.S. [...]

Yesterday, the UN released its annual report on children and armed conflict, in which it added a coalition of Gulf nations – led by Saudi Arabia and backed by the United States – to a UN [...]

Today, in the latest shift in U.S. policy towards Saudi Arabia, the White House put a hold on the transfer of cluster munitions to the Kingdom. For decades, the U.S. has approved massive arms [...]

Josh Lyman, a character in the popular political show The West Wing, once said, “I realize as an adult that not everyone shares my view of the world. And with an issue as hot as gun control, [...]

Peace Action President Kevin Martin on Democracy Now! discussing President Obama’s planned visit to Hiroshima.

Peace Action Senior Director for Policy and Political Affairs Paul Kawika Martin is quoted on President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima.

Since 2001, the U.S. has been in a constant state of war. With the goal of countering terrorism, we have used military force to varying degrees in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, [...]

While the stage was set for Yemen’s civil war long before it officially began, the curtain opened on March 19, 2015 when special forces loyal to former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh took [...]