Tran Tong Duyet credits the senator with helping improve relations between the two countries after the war.

Troubling questions hover over then-Lt. Cmdr. McCain’s actions in a catastrophic 1967 fire aboard the aircraft carrier Forrestal and the period immediately afterward. His later accounts of events that followed the accident also raise issues.

In a conversation with the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges wonders if the era of great journalism that Hersh embodies has passed.

A new exhibit at the Los Angeles Public Library celebrates the young men who refused to fight in the Vietnam War.

Monstrous U.S. war crimes since the early 1950s have gone down George Orwell's "memory hole." Now, we have no concept of empathy—or reality.

Less is not more with Ben Carson leading the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The U.S. has become a country that supports torture, so the fight to stop the godmother of the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" program may be futile.

The neoconservative crusade to capture the mind of the United States did not end with the Cold War but instead entered a new and more dangerous phase.

A male-female imbalance of 70 million has upset big parts of society in the two countries, and the problem probably won’t improve for a long time.