Peace

Peace Boat visit marks Nagasaki Day in N.Y.

NEW YORK — Michimasa Hirata was not supposed to be speaking in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza on Aug. 9, the 62nd anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan. Another atomic bomb survivor was to address the crowd...

Surge a failure, lawmaker charges

It looks as though the administration will use a September report by Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, to paint a rosy picture of the situation there. Elected leaders and broad sections of...

CARTOON: Bush’s new baby

A tribute and the way forward

Rep. John Conyers has probably done more than anyone in Congress to expose the depths of the constitutional crisis in our country and to fight to protect and restore civil rights and liberties. He is a...

EDITORIAL: Nuclear nightmare

The human race learned a lesson from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 62 years ago: These weapons of mass destruction must never again be used. Even some Cold Warriors recognize that use of these...