Did you hear the one about the Ex Democratic Party Chairman and the peace activist walking into the coffee shop? That was Tim Kaine and me on Saturday. He’s the former governor of Virginia, former DNC Chair, and current candidate for the US Senate. He arrived nearly an hour late for his event here in [...]

Women still face a military attitude that up to now has been “Because women aren’t allowed in combat, they can’t have PTSD. It must be depression or women’s issues like PMS.” This Memorial Day it’s worth noting that the US military is a whole lot keener to deploy women than it is to look after them when they’ve done their service. We discuss veterans’ issues in a GRITtv roundtable.

As we remember the service members who have given their lives in all American wars, we discuss what supporting the troops really means.

Tom Morello, of The Nightwatchman, on what recovery’s going to take.

We ask two vets and a pacifist what it means to Support The Troops, and premiere a snip of IRAQ PAPER SCISSORS. Plus a Handstand-A-Thon in Brooklyn , the G.I. Bill of Rights, The Great Derangement, and One Immigrant’s Tale from the Movement Vision Lab.

In his new book, The Great Derangement, Matt chronicles his cross-country travels, and finds that, with distrust of the government at new heights and cynicism about the media and their role even higher, the country is “flipping out.”