Howard Lisnoff

Howard Lisnoff is a freelance writer. He is the author of Against the Wall: Memoir of a Vietnam-Era War Resister (2017).

The Government is Torturing Chelsea Manning! Does Anyone Give a Damn?

Self-Enlightenment v. Social Change

Keep Your Head Down; Keep Your Passport Current

Militarism Has Become Enormously Popular and Nearly Universally Accepted

The One Thing That US Leaders Seem to Do Well is Lie

Elizabeth Warren: Savior of a Fallen System?

The High Crimes of Selling Churros and Loosies in NYC

David Harris, Presente!

The Dubious Case of Washing Machines and Student Performance

Wealth and All That Glitters

“We Came, We saw, He Died:” Once Young in a Land of Endless Wars

More Incitement to Violence by Trump’s Fellow Travelers

Public School Uniforms: Symbol of the Times 

Amid all of the War and Mayhem… Sam’s Story

Underground Notes From a 2016 Sandernista

Losing My Religion

As Schools Open

The Horsemen of the Apocalypse Fuel the Fires of Hate and Destruction

To Protect and Serve

The Proud Boys Take Over the Streets of Portland, Oregon

At the End of the Barrel of a Gun

Two Foxes and a Hen: Sexual Assault in the Military

A Dark Corner of Hell

What Has Happened to the U.S. Since the Kids Left Woodstock?

Everybody Must Get Stoned

The D.O.A. Peace Movement Ain’t Marching Much Anymore, But We Did

They’re Still Dying at an Early Age

“Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran”

Try Not to Look Away

The False Prophets Cometh

We Need to Beat Our Own Swords Into Plowshares and Honor the Kent State Martyrs, the Wounded, and Their Families

“One, Two, Three Strikes, You’re Out…”

When War Crimes are Pardoned

They’re Just About Ready to Destroy Roe v. Wade

In Your Face Income Inequality

The Day People Disappeared and a New Strategy for Stealing Votes

Mental Health in the Time of Existential Threats

Loose Bullets and Loose Cannons

The Political Left is Bigger Than Imagined: Ask the Feds

Woodstock at 50

“Say It Ain’t So, Joe:” the Latest Neoliberal from the War and Wall Street Party

Want Your Kids to Make it Big in the World of Elite Education in the U.S.?

Trump’s Plot Against America: It Can Happen Here

Follow the Money to the Border Wall

Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Anti-immigrant Hate

The Mother of All Bombs: U.S. Foreign Policy

The Long Goodbye of Antiwar Protest 

Another Slugger from Louisville: Muhammad Ali

The Faux Political System by the Numbers

Nineteen Sixty-Nine: A Look Back at Protest