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By Howie Lisnoff

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I write from the point of view of the liberal/left. As a journalist over many decades, I’ve written about issues that the mass media doesn’t, or won’t, address.

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Episode Date
“Stop in the name of love…”*
Apr 04, 2026
No Kings: No Dice
Mar 29, 2026
When It Became Time to Give Up Motorcycles
Mar 27, 2026
For The Love of a Chicken Dinner: Writing on the Left for a Better World
Mar 21, 2026
He’s No Chauncey Gardner
Mar 12, 2026
In a Violent Time
Mar 11, 2026
Feeling Good About War
Mar 01, 2026
Callousness
Feb 28, 2026
Was It Anyone’s Duty to Rescue Lauren Chapin?
Feb 27, 2026
On Gathering Kindling
Feb 26, 2026
Racing the Storm
Feb 24, 2026
Olympic Gold
Feb 23, 2026
The Oldest Second-Class Scout in History
Feb 22, 2026
Miseducated
Feb 20, 2026
Trashing the Environment
Feb 19, 2026
An Organized Left No Longer Exists
Feb 18, 2026
Is the Net Worth of Celebrities and Famous Athletes Obscene?
Feb 15, 2026
You’ll Know When You’re a Threat
Feb 14, 2026
An Untimely Death
Feb 12, 2026
What’s Happened in Vietnam?
Feb 11, 2026
Phil Ochs
Feb 07, 2026
The Longest Bar Mitzvah Celebration in World History
Feb 04, 2026
Let Down by the Left
Feb 04, 2026
A World-Class Athlete
Feb 01, 2026
Who’s Playing in the Super Bowl?
Feb 01, 2026
“Power Concedes Nothing…”
Jan 31, 2026
Activism and Protest Lite: The Environment
Jan 30, 2026
Hooters, an Old Cemetery, and a Monastery
Jan 29, 2026
Fake News in a Cockamamie World
Jan 28, 2026
An Incomplete Education
Jan 14, 2026
Wearing a George W. Bush Rubber Mask
Jan 12, 2026
The Duckbill Platypus Van Influencers
Jan 11, 2026
A Shitshow Every Day
Jan 09, 2026
The Vietnam Draft Revisited With Trump’s Class of Ships
Dec 26, 2025
Living Amid the Lap of Luxury
Dec 24, 2025
“Light One Candle"
Dec 12, 2025
From a Small New England Town to the Dictates of Empire
Dec 04, 2025
Strategic Hamlets 2.0
Nov 26, 2025
1950s-1960s
Nov 11, 2025
The Woman Standing Near the Strip Mall and a Critical Mass
Nov 09, 2025
A Narcissistic Clown
Nov 08, 2025
Environmental Ruin
Oct 29, 2025
The Lawn Workers Next Door
Oct 27, 2025
The First Stone
Oct 26, 2025
Impressions of a Local No Kings Rally
Oct 19, 2025
Gaza, Celebrities, and Presidential Elections
Oct 18, 2025
“There’s a man with a gun over there..."
Oct 11, 2025
Pure Evil
Oct 07, 2025
Sexual Assaults in JROTC and the Larger Military
Sep 29, 2025
“Tough It Out"
Sep 25, 2025
Under Times Square
Sep 23, 2025
All the News That’s Not Fit to Print
Sep 22, 2025
William Was Prescient
Sep 21, 2025
The Writing Shtick
Sep 19, 2025
Writing and Robert Redford
Sep 17, 2025
“Killed him a bear..."
Sep 16, 2025
Once There Was Hope
Sep 15, 2025
Living in the Land of Trump
Sep 13, 2025
For the Love of Guns
Sep 11, 2025
A Minute or More in the Sun
Sep 10, 2025
The Atomized Society
Sep 08, 2025
Why Protest Doesn’t Matter Anymore
Sep 06, 2025
Their Best Shot
Sep 04, 2025
Unions on Labor Day
Sep 01, 2025
Ending up in Deep Shit
Aug 31, 2025
All of the Rearguard Battles
Aug 30, 2025
We Heard You Were Changing Hairstylists
Aug 27, 2025
The Flag
Aug 26, 2025
Why I Stopped Wearing a Watch
Aug 25, 2025
Who Rules the Law?
Aug 24, 2025
“Ripple” and a Romance Novel From the 1960s
Aug 24, 2025
It’s Worse Than Rotten in Denmark
Aug 23, 2025
“Howie, you must be out of your tree!"
Aug 21, 2025
Peace in Ukraine: Humanitarian Relief and Peace in Gaza
Aug 17, 2025
What’s in It for Me? Celebrities and Power
Aug 16, 2025
Howie, We May Want You
Aug 13, 2025
Boots on the Ground in D.C.
Aug 12, 2025
Trump, Netanyahu, and Kennedy: They’re for the Birds and Worse!
Aug 11, 2025
“If elections changed anything..."
Aug 10, 2025
“Signature Moments"
Aug 09, 2025
Google’s Algorithms?
Aug 08, 2025
Back to School
Aug 07, 2025
A World I Don’t Recognize
Aug 06, 2025
By the Numbers: Bad Discharges*
Aug 05, 2025
The Blank Page
Aug 03, 2025
Nuclear Confrontation
Aug 02, 2025
August 1st
Aug 01, 2025
Genocide
Jul 31, 2025
Gun Violence
Jul 30, 2025
Why Do We Hate So Much?
Jul 29, 2025
Counting the Aggression on the Garden State Parkway
Jul 27, 2025
It’s All Greek to Me
Jul 23, 2025
A Native Son Returns Home
Jul 22, 2025
Now and Then: What We Focus On
Jul 19, 2025
Bottoms Up
Jul 14, 2025
The Enraged Society
Jul 13, 2025
One Man Got It Wrong
Jul 11, 2025
The Scent of Tanning Oil
Jul 07, 2025
Old Glory Club
Jul 06, 2025
The Fourth
Jul 04, 2025
Cruelty, Inc.
Jul 03, 2025
"That the one road we traveled would ever shatter and split”*
Jul 02, 2025
The Week That Ushered in a Dictatorship in the US
Jun 30, 2025
A Note About the Peace Flag Video
Jun 26, 2025
A Nation of Immigrants and My Grandparents by Howard Lisnoff
Jun 25, 2025
“If voting meant anything, they’d make it illegal."
Jun 23, 2025
Standing Out for Peace
Jun 20, 2025
My Friend Judy
May 19, 2025
The Democrats, Stupidity, and the Election System Gave Us Trump
May 17, 2025
ICE Raid in the Best Small Town in the US Part II audio with entire article.
May 15, 2025
Ice Raid in the Best Small Town in the US Entire Article With Part I Audio
May 14, 2025
Separating Families
May 02, 2025
Part 2 of First They Tortured Him, Then, He Died
Apr 26, 2025
First They Tortured Him, Then, He Died
Apr 25, 2025
“I declare the war is over...”*
Apr 24, 2025
“You don’t know how good you have it.” Confessions of a Near Shit
Apr 21, 2025
“You don’t know how good you have it.” Confessions of a Near Shit
Apr 21, 2025
"It Happens Every Spring”*
Apr 16, 2025
The Descent Into Hell Didn’t Happen by Accident
Apr 14, 2025
Old Left: New Left
Apr 10, 2025
The Last New Leftist’s Substack
Apr 09, 2025
An Inauspicious Life
Apr 05, 2025
Columbia University Once a Bellwether of Protest
Mar 28, 2025
Trump: Peacemaker?
Mar 21, 2025
The Harlem Valley Rail Trail
Mar 18, 2025
Kent State to Pro-Palestinian Protest
Mar 12, 2025
A Liberal Veneer
Feb 20, 2025
The Duopoly Out of Central Casting
Feb 15, 2025
They’re Still Killed by US Munitions
Feb 06, 2025
Keep Your Head Down
Jan 30, 2025
I’m Very Worried About a Second Trump Administration
Jan 22, 2025
Don’t Appear Weak!
Jan 15, 2025
Jimmy Carter: Amnesty and Draft Registration
Jan 03, 2025
A Little Learning Is Not Such a Dangerous Thing
Dec 27, 2024
The Love of Violence: The First Commandment Matters No More
Dec 21, 2024
A Nation of Immigrants
Dec 10, 2024
Can You Get Anything You Want? So Long, Alice Brock
Nov 28, 2024
It Went So Very Bad: Is There a Way Out?
Nov 22, 2024
Gina Raimondo 2.0
Nov 15, 2024
It Has Happened Here
Nov 09, 2024
We’re in Some Deep Shit
Nov 02, 2024
A Better World
Oct 30, 2024
Protest and Conformity
Oct 25, 2024
“A Great Man"
Oct 11, 2024
Marching Down to Armageddon
Oct 04, 2024
Ruining My Religion
Sep 27, 2024
"Déjà vu all over again”*
Sep 14, 2024
A Conversation With a Columbia University Undergraduate
Sep 06, 2024
The Presidential Election Farce
Aug 30, 2024
A New Kind of McCarthyism
Aug 23, 2024
The Feeding Frenzy of Consumerism and Environmental Destruction
Aug 19, 2024
Criticism of Gaza Genocide is off of the Table
Aug 12, 2024
Individual Responsibility in War: William Calley, Jr. and the Vietnam War
Aug 01, 2024
Homeless Behind the Big Box Stores
Jul 29, 2024
The People Who Gave Gifts
Jul 28, 2024
War is Good, Kamala Harris is Better Than Sliced Bread: The Beat Goes On and On
Jul 27, 2024
A Bully Returns
Jul 25, 2024
Two American Families and a War Criminal in Congress
Jul 24, 2024
Who Steps Into Joe Biden’s Neoliberal* Shoes?
Jul 22, 2024
No Choice?
Jul 20, 2024
The Curtain is Coming Down
Jul 17, 2024
Courting Disaster
Jul 16, 2024
Frighteningly American as Apple Pie
Jul 15, 2024
Bernie Sanders: Surely You Jest!
Jul 14, 2024
P.F. Flyers in the Shopping Cart of Time
Jul 13, 2024
Civilians in War
Jul 12, 2024
The Democratic Leadership Must Think We’re Morons
Jul 11, 2024
The Sales Clerk’s Missing Teeth: Dental Care in the US
Jul 10, 2024
Kamala Harris for President?
Jul 09, 2024
The Loneliness of the Shopping Mall
Jul 07, 2024
Joe Biden: First “Black Woman” to Serve in the White House
Jul 06, 2024
Trump v. Biden: Can This Be True?
Jul 04, 2024
Helping Others as a Gig
Jul 03, 2024
It’s All Smoke and Mirrors
Jul 02, 2024
Rock and Roll Music
Jul 01, 2024
The Not So Greatest Show on Earth
Jun 29, 2024
The Slow-Motion Train Wreck of the Empire
Jun 28, 2024
Charlie
Jun 26, 2024
It’s Not Sexy Anymore
Jun 25, 2024
What Does Protest Accomplish Now?
Jun 24, 2024
Et tu, Eleanor?
Jun 23, 2024
Disappeared Dreams
Jun 21, 2024
My Hope for the Graduates
Jun 20, 2024
What Have They Done to Greenwich Village, Ma?*
Jun 19, 2024
The Loss of Civility
Jun 17, 2024
“All the News That’s Fit to Print”*
Jun 14, 2024
“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”*
Jun 13, 2024
My Choice of Heroes
Jun 12, 2024
Uncle Dave and the Cemetery at Oradell
Jun 11, 2024
Leave-Taking
Jun 10, 2024
Commenting at The New York Times and the Israel-Gaza War
Jun 09, 2024
My Letter From Donald Trump and the Gaza Rampage
Jun 07, 2024
Motorcycle Madness
Jun 06, 2024
“Too Personal a Tale”* Graduation Day Revisited
Jun 05, 2024
To Learn, or Not to Learn: The Community College Experience
Jun 04, 2024
You Can’t Pull Over to the Side of the Sky
Jun 03, 2024
You Can’t Go Home Again
Jun 01, 2024
Will Trump Push Us Over an Abyss?
May 31, 2024
June: A Brush Cut, Sandlot Baseball, and the World at My Feet
May 30, 2024
Supporting Genocide
May 29, 2024
The Ideals Slipped Away
May 28, 2024
My Father-In-Law Bill and Just Cause or Just War
May 26, 2024
Can Art House Cinema Predict or Reflect Reality?
May 25, 2024
Standing at the Precipice
May 24, 2024
“You step out of line, the man [sic] come and take you away”*
May 23, 2024
Why the Surprise at Police Violence?
May 22, 2024
Suppose They Committed a Genocide and Almost Nobody Cared
May 20, 2024
When It’s Time to Say Goodbye to Logo T-shirts
May 19, 2024
The Silence of the Bourgeoisie and Gestapo Tactics Again
May 19, 2024
The Last Leftist Dinosaurs Wandering the Earth
May 18, 2024
The Motel by the Side of the Road
May 16, 2024
I’ll Drink to That: My Party School
May 15, 2024
From Flip Phones to Trump
May 14, 2024
Ordinary People and Those Who Plan and Enjoy Murder
May 13, 2024
Homelessness Then and Now
May 12, 2024
1968-2024
May 10, 2024
Troop 3 Phenix
May 08, 2024
Biden’s "Ferocious Surge" of Antisemitism
May 08, 2024
Repressing Free Speech and Protest
May 07, 2024
Be Silent: Consume
May 05, 2024
Jackboot on Protest
May 04, 2024
When the Police Hunt Down the First Amendment and Bash Protesters
May 02, 2024
It Went So Wrong
May 01, 2024
“What Did You Learn in School Today..."
Apr 30, 2024
Intolerance in the Berkshires of Massachusetts
Apr 29, 2024
Biden at Morehouse
Apr 27, 2024
Antisemitism, Gaza, and the Passover Holiday
Apr 23, 2024
It’s Either Democracy or Empire
Apr 20, 2024
Julian Assange and the Dirty Secrets of Empire
Apr 18, 2024
No Choice: The 2024 Election
Apr 16, 2024
“Eve of Destruction"
Apr 15, 2024
Violence During Sex: A Degraded Social/Interpersonal Landscape
Apr 13, 2024
Russia, China, and Those at Risk in the US
Apr 12, 2024
The Killing of Other People’s Children in War
Apr 10, 2024
The Atomized and Isolated Society
Apr 08, 2024
Antisemitism and Other Forms of Hate in the US
Apr 07, 2024
Was 50+ Years in Democratic Party Politics a Waste?
Apr 05, 2024
Biden and Trump: It’s Not What You Might Think
Apr 04, 2024
“No matter what you start with [sic] it ends up being so much less."
Apr 03, 2024