Tom Gallagher is a writer and activist living in San Francisco. He is the author of Sub: My Years Underground in America’s Schools and The Primary Route: How the 99 Percent Takes On the Military Industrial Complex. He is a past member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
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A Chameleonic Career
A new book on California’s youngest and oldest governor....
Reform Under the Fire of Radicalism
A new book about five icons of the 20th-century American left....
One Fait Accompli After Another: Mikhail Gorbachev on the New Russia
Tom Gallagher appreciates “The New Russia,” a political autobiography by Mikhail Gorbachev....
Reclaiming McGovern: A Legacy on the Left
Tom Gallagher reviews Thomas J. Knock’s “The Rise of a Priarie Statesman.”...
Bern, Baby, Bern
Bernie Sanders delegate Tom Gallagher takes an inside look at his candidate’s campaign manifesto....
Teaching in a Tough School
Ed Boland’s year of teaching in a tough school in New York City....
Koch World
Jane Mayer’s "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right" is almost too good for its own good....
A “Just and Liberal” Vision of War
Grandin wants us to think about "the outsized role" Kissinger "had in creating the world we live in today, which accepts endless war as a matter of course."...
War and Girlhood
“The war in Zagreb began over a pack of cigarettes.”...
Rethinking the Geopolitics of Energy
Jones sees the current situation as an "order without parallel in human history."...
Michael Hastings Skewers Them From the Grave (with a Scoop of Gawker)
Point of view will always be there consciously or unconsciously — but if it’s there unconsciously, it gets feral and doesn’t serve your work....
Capital Comes Knocking at the Schoolhouse Door
Is the United States’ public education crisis an example of a society in crisis overall?...
The Demilitarized Soldier: Andrew Bacevich, American Foreign Policy and Breach of Trust
A demilitarized soldier brings some honesty to a foreign policy addicted to war. Special art/multimedia needs:...
Those Still Going on About Ralph Nader Electing Bush in 2000 Should Desist
If Ralph Nader owes us an apology for making Bush president, does John Kerry owe us one too?...
Around the World: Jeremy Scahill’s “Dirty Wars,” Latin America’s Alfredo Jaar, and Istanbul’s Museum of Innocence
In this month's edition of "Around the World," Tom Gallagher examines Jeremy Scahill's book and just-released documentary film Dirty Wars: a ...
Battlefield Earth: An Endless "War on Terror" Spinning Out of Control
A destructive and endless "War on Terror" is spinning out of control....
A Nation Unhinged: The Grim Realities of “The Real American War”
A history of the Vietnam War that finds the My Lai massacre more the rule than the exception, Nick Turse’s new book is almost guaranteed to drop your jaw....
Wanted: 2016 Presidential Candidates
Does the American Left take itself seriously enough to get involved in the 2016 presidential election?...
Single Payer Health Insurance Bill Orphaned in California
The state of California's single payer movement...
Waiting For Chavez: The Farm Workers Union and the Future of Labor Organizing
IN TRAMPLING OUT THE VINTAGE, Frank Bardacke has written the kind of history the professionals call “magisterial,” but ...
The Voice of the End of December: On Leonard Cohen’s Life and Music
BY 1967, IT HAD ALREADY BEEN 11 years since Leonard Cohen published his first volume of poetry. He had also written ...
Endless War: Rachel Maddow and America’s Power Addiction
AS ANYONE WHO’S TRIED to do antiwar work over the last few years knows, not only can the President ...
The Intelligent Sports Fan’s Guide to Socialism
INSTEAD OF YELLING, “Kill the umpire,” as they supposedly did at nineteenth century baseball games, Dave Zirin’s ...
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