Cohen is the author of the new book Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's 50-Year Battle for a More Unjust America Edward Snowden is being called a lot of things right now. A heroic whistle-blower.

Daniel Ellsberg (left) unleashed a political crisis when he distributed the classified Pentagon Papers— extensive documentation on the United States’s extended, often secret involvement in Vietnam—to ...

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When Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times in 1971, the Nixon White House tried to discredit him. Among other things,... 'Life Lessons' From a White House Plumber When ...

Also, though not much isn't already known about what's in the papers, Ellsberg says today's declassification of them is a timely reminder of the... Daniel Ellsberg Expected Life In Prison After ...

A January 1973 photo of Daniel Ellsberg, left, addressing the media outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles during the Pentagon Papers trial. (Jim Trageser) Hunkered over a Xerox machine at an ad ...

On a warm evening almost a decade ago, I sat under the stars with Daniel Ellsberg while he talked about nuclear war with alarming intensity. He was most of the way through writing his last and most ...

Daniel Ellsberg, who died of pancreatic cancer on June 16th at the age of 92, was a patriot. He served in the Marines from 1954-1957 as a company commander and in 1961 went to Vietnam as part of a ...

I have been a history professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst for twenty years. On May 7, I was one of a handful of faculty members arrested for standing in support of hundreds of ...