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As politicians and pundits debate sending more troops to Afghanistan, many of them will argue that we need to protect the women and girls of Afghanistan with military force. But what is the [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh_sxilhyV0] Rep. Barbara Lee’s speech in 2001 before voting against the use of force resolution for Afghanistan. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) was the [...]

Today is Blog Action Day for climate change, so I’m posting our piece on how international cooperation must be a central element of America’s energy policy. — In today’s [...]

Last night, I was interviewed on the Nicole Sandler Show on Air America to talk about the success of our Facebook vigil at the White House. Nicole participated in the vigil, and expressed her [...]

We put the writing on the wall. For three solid days, opposition to the war in Afghanistan dominated the White House’s Facebook wall. At one point yesterday, public posting on the White [...]

Today’s the day. We need to make a big impression with our White House Facebook vigil, and we need your help to do it. Please click here to join the vigil and pass it on. After more than [...]

I did an email interview last week with Kourosh Ziabari of Foreign Policy Journal about my trip to Iran and the current state of US-Iran relations. Kourosh Ziabari: Like many Americans who have [...]

This week marks 8 years in Afghanistan, and President Obama is thinking of doubling down on war. Republicans are bombarding him with pressure to send as many as 45,000 troops. Is the President [...]

October 7th marks the eighth anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan. While the whole nation reels from the terrible cost of the war in lives, livelihoods, and dollars, President Obama is [...]

Rory Stewart of the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard has been an interesting person to watch on the Afghanistan policy debate. A former British soldier, Stewart walked 6,000 miles across [...]