Gulf of Tonkin incident (1964)

If the U.S. government is going to wage unending war, it should at least get the public on its side.

In 1964, Commonweal supported the Vietnam War. In 1966, the magazine condemned it in blunt, theological terms. What changed?

Before going to the press, Ellsberg spent a year and a half quietly leaking the Pentagon Papers to leading antiwar lawmakers. They all declined to speak out.

Craig McNamara’s family did not talk about the Vietnam War. He spent his life asking questions about it.

Leslie Gelb supervised the team that compiled the Pentagon Papers. He explains what Steven Spielberg's new film gets wrong.

The man who leaked the Pentagon Papers is back with a new book, The Doomsday Machine.

A warning from September 2001 about government overreach in the name of national security.