Connections to Today

Biden Is the Latest President To Tout the Vietnam War as Proud History

When Joe Biden flew out of Hanoi last week, he was leaving a country where U.S. warfare caused roughly 3.8 million Vietnamese deaths.

January 5, 2022

For most benefits administered by VA, including health care, a bad paper discharge does not render a veteran categorically ineligible.

September 13, 2021

Echoes of the war in Vietnam were everywhere. What about the conspiracy theories that animated the rage of Trump’s passionate followers?

April 7, 2020

Việt Nam Note: Chuck Searcy, Project RENEW, 4 April 2020 Today, April 4, is International Mine Awareness Day, led by...

March 20, 2020

The entire issue is now available online. Print, view, and share the PDF of Issue #1.

March 3, 2020

Howard Machtinger's commentary on the Washington Post's "Afghanistan Papers," published March 2, 2020 at Portside.com....

January 11, 2020

"As we are caught up in the moment, here on the knife’s edge, it would be easy to forget how we got here, how we set...

December 28, 2019

In this op-ed, Viet Thanh Nguyen writes about how the show's handling of the American war in Vietnam and its...

December 28, 2019

Book review written by Helena Cobban and published December 9, 2019 on Mondoweiss. THE MOVEMENT AND THE MIDDLE EAST...

December 19, 2019

Essay by Howard Machtinger first published December 9, 2019 on Portside. Those in the social justice movement will no...

November 19, 2019

This Veterans Day essay was published online at NBC News/Think on Nov. 11, 2019. PHOTO CAPTION: Danny Lane and Sotere...

November 18, 2019

Vietnam vs. Afghanistan – Matched Mayhem, Ceaseless War Posted on Antiwar.com November 15, 2019 By Gene Marx Between...

November 18, 2019

Endless war can be wearying and takes a toll on our troops. We saw it in Viet Nam, and we're seeing it in Afghanistan...

September 13, 2019

This Tomgram posted by Andrew Bacevitch on September 10, 2019, with introduction by Nick Turse, speaks to the moral...

August 5, 2019

In Public Radio International's The World broadcast of July 24, 2019, host Marco Werman interviews Susan Hammond with...