Stories by Clancy Sigal

Clancy Sigal is a novelist and screenwriter in Los Angeles. His latest book, Hemingway Lives!, will be published this spring by OR Books. He can be reached at clancy@jsasoc.com. subscribe to Clancy Sigal's feed

Hello Baseball, Goodbye Brain: Wouldn't It Be Great If We Could Channel Our Sports Passion Toward the Theft Going on in Washington?

Posted on: Apr 10, 2013, Source: AlterNet

Our money is being stolen not at the corporate sports stadium but at the corporate White House.

How Come Nobody Cares About the Fate of Los Angeles?

Posted on: Mar 15, 2013, Source: AlterNet

LA politics are notoriously confusing, but the recent election was stratospherically off the boredom chart.

Are Democrats Bent on Political Suicide?

Posted on: May 18, 2012, Source: CounterPunch

With the Republicans outspending progressives 20-to-one, Obama’s Democratic National Committee stubbornly refuses to invest a penny in the battle to unseat Walker.

War in Afghanistan Is Mutiny by a Different Name

Posted on: Mar 13, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The troops are protesting "by any other means" their entrapment in a no-win landscape where Washington politicians keep a war going beyond the limit of sanity.

The Brave Soldiers Who Show True Honor

Posted on: Mar 1, 2012, Source: AlterNet

We need soldiers that fight for the values that make America truly great.

Can We Win Over Ron Paul Supporters?

Posted on: Sep 18, 2011, Source: Comment Is Free

Not everybody with conservative politics is untalkable to.

Obama's Passive Conservatism Is Making a Lot of People Angry

Posted on: Aug 7, 2011, Source: Comment Is Free

In many ways, Obama's contribution to the left has been to weaken it. Should progressives go elsewhere?

D-Day: The Greatest Generation and Casualties of the Depression

Posted on: Jun 6, 2011, Source: Comment Is Free

D-Day: The Greatest Generation and Casualties of the Great Depression

Posted on: Jun 6, 2011, Source: Comment Is Free

Before the 'greatest generation' ever landed on the Normandy beaches, they had long been casualties of the great Depression.

In a War-Loving Society, Peace Activism Takes a Lot of Guts and Bravery

Posted on: May 29, 2011, Source: AlterNet

As one who served in the military, I used to despise conscientious objectors. Now, I see it takes a special sort of courage to say no to war.

The Slippery Slope of "Humane Intervention": Why Do Liberals Keep Talking Themselves into War?

Posted on: Apr 5, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Once again, many liberals have bought into American power as a force for good. But it's just another ugly, expensive war we now own

Why Is the Media Giving Charlie Sheen So Much Attention?

Posted on: Mar 7, 2011, Source: AlterNet

We Americans do love our bad showbiz boys running amok.

America: Hooked on War and Getting Poorer

Posted on: Jul 15, 2010, Source: The Guardian

With record foreclosures and child poverty at a shameful level, can we really afford to stay in Afghanistan and Iraq for 10 years?

Is Hanks and Spielberg's $150 Million Mini-Series a Recruiting Poster for More War?

Posted on: May 31, 2010, Source: CounterPunch

Can you make an anti-war statement, and pay tribute to the courage of soldiers in the Second World War at the same time?

The Inspiring 'Freedom Movement' That Paved the Way for Obama

Posted on: Apr 16, 2010, Source: The Guardian

The 50th anniversary celebration of SNCC's "Freedom Movement" is a reminder that power yields nothing without demand and the guts to back it up.

The Many Burdens a GI Faces in Afghanistan

Posted on: Apr 7, 2010, Source: The Guardian

The GIs are doing the best they can, in a "job" the politicians command them out of imperial hubris and historical ignorance.

Barack Obama, I Want a Divorce

Posted on: Mar 19, 2010, Source: Comment Is Free

My honeymoon with the Democrats has long since passed. Our relationship has turned sour, and I'm in no mood to marry again.

Where's the Sane, Liberal Anger? Have Progressives Abandoned Emotion to the Right?

Posted on: Mar 3, 2010, Source: The Guardian

While Tea Partiers protest loudly at the mess we're in progressives seem to be stewing in their own sterile politeness.

I Volunteered For Obama in 2008, But His Support of Landmines Is the Last Straw

Posted on: Dec 23, 2009, Source: Comment Is Free

Obama's cruel and pointless refusal to ban child-killing landmines was my personal breaking point against the candidate I worked hard to elect.