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The masks are coming off

Ever since the atomic bombings of Japanese cities in August 1945, the world has been living on borrowed time. To facilitate these nuclear war preparations, the major nuclear powers have withdrawn from key nuclear arms control and disarmament treaties

Readers Comments: GOP Budget ‘Total Betrayal’ of Working Class; Immigration and Health in Rural America; Story behind removal of Univ of Virginia president - eliminate DEI as fight against anti-Semitism; David Schwartzman-RIP; Announcements; more...

Special: A primer on Lebanon

Citizens of the world, what do you think? Are more powerful nuclear forces necessary for national security? What about arms races, competing to maintain superiority over other nations? Peace Declaration marking 79 years since the bombing of Hiroshima

The time has arrived to consider bolstering international institutions that can build a more peaceful world. The current presidential campaign provides an appropriate place for raising this issue. We have a personal stake in ensuring human survival.

Reader Comments: 2024 Elections: Democratic Convention, Harris, Walz, Uncommitted Movement; Israel Killing Hamas Leaders Who Want Ceasefire; Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Biden Issues a Stinging Dissent to SCOTUS; Lots of Cartoons; more....

Reader Comments: Ohio Voted!; Hiroshima - Nagasaki - Never Again!; VFX Workers Unionizing at Marvel Studios; How policy has shaped racial economic disparities; Film Discussion on Sacco and Vanzetti; New Film: King Coal; Cartoons; more; ....

Lots of Reader Comments: Kenosha Killer; White Supremacists Attack on Democracy; How Textbooks Taught White Supremacy; Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan, Red Army Did; The Harder They Fall; New resource on Black films; Howard Zinn; Announcements; more ....