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The Los Angeles Times published my letter to the editor on Friday urging our California senators to be leaders on promoting diplomacy with Iran: Doyle McManus is right that we should be willing [...]

After a ridiculous government shutdown, you don’t need me to tell you how important it is to hold Congress accountable. But I can point you toward a new tool to make it easier. While the shutdown [...]

The opening for diplomacy with Iran gets its first big test this week with the resumption of the P5+1 nuclear talks. The signs look good following an encouraging couple of months since Hassan [...]

All eyes were on New York City this week as today marked the first time that Presidents Obama and Rouhani would come together and share their visions for diplomacy at the UN General Assembly. [...]

If at first you don’t succeed… …try, try again to start an unnecessary and costly war. That seems to be the thinking of some hawkish members of Congress who never met a war they didn’t [...]

This morning, our friends at Berim delivered over 100,000 petition signatures to a representative of the US’s UN delegation, urging President Obama to meet with Iranian President Hassan [...]

It’s astounding to watch a run-up to war come to a screeching halt. And it wouldn’t have happened without your efforts. Just a couple of weeks ago, the media was discussing a strike on Syria as [...]

We are on Capitol Hill this week urging members of Congress to vote against authorizing force in Syria. In our first day, we’ve already visited dozens of offices, and most people we talk to [...]

It’s time to really ramp things up. The House and Senate are scheduled to vote on attacking Syria this week. We’re on Capitol Hill right now urging members to vote no, and we need your voices [...]

Our pressure is working. Last week, many people thought war with Syria was inevitable—until the clamor you helped raise forced the president to put on the brakes. President Obama’s dramatic [...]