Daniel Ellsberg Articles

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers will be released domestically on DVD by First Run Features. Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith's Academy Award-nominated documentary was the 2009 winner of the National Board of Review Freedom of Expression Award. (Photo: Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon.) The Most Dangerous Man in America will be available nationwide on DVD on July 20. [...]

Howard Zinn, author of the revisionist A People's History of the United States, died of a heart attack in Santa Monica, Calif., on Wednesday. He was 87. The Brooklyn-born writer and teacher — admired by progressives, reviled by reactionaries — had his People's History mentioned by friend and admirer Matt Damon in the 1997 drama Good Will Hunting, for which Damon and Ben Affleck won [...]