1968 articles

  • Smerconish: Is it ‘1968

    With anti-war protests and riot cops on college campuses, and the Democratic Convention taking place in Chicago, CNN’s Michael Smerconish asks, is America headed toward a sequel of 1968? And will it imperil Biden’s re-election chances?

  • 1968 redux

    A wave of pro-Palestinian protests has been sweeping American college campuses, prompting academic administrators and political leaders to push back and invoke their powers – including calling in the police – to curtail the demonstrations.

  • If This Is 1968 Over Again, More Popular Upheaval Is On The Way

    Mass graves, the criminalization of dissent, systematic slaughter glorified as self-defense, resisting students making history. Yes, the current nightmare does seem reminiscent of 1968, the year kaleidoscopic change burst forth seemingly everywhere at once. On January 31, the beginning of Tet, eighty-thousand Vietnamese troops issued Washington a formal eviction notice, attacking all the major cities More