https://znetwork.org/author/nanlevinson/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:42:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/nanlevinson/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/whos-responsible-when-a-military-order-is-illegal/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/whos-responsible-when-a-military-order-is-illegal/#respond Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:09:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292455 Any story about resistance within the military must begin by recognizing that it’s not an easy thing to do. Apparently, that’s true even for a much-decorated retired Navy commander, former astronaut, and sitting United States senator. I’m talking about Arizona Senator Mark Kelly. He was one of six Democratic legislators, all military veterans or former intelligence [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/whos-responsible-when-a-military-order-is-illegal/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/alliance-defiance-noncompliance/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/alliance-defiance-noncompliance/#respond Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289235 On July 17th, I joined a group of Vermonters for a Good Trouble Lives On action in a village near where we were staying that month. Over the past 161 straight days, a small but determined contingent of mostly White, mostly grey-haired, mostly too-polite-to-make-much-trouble residents had been gathering at noon to protest Donald Trump’s policies on a little [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/alliance-defiance-noncompliance/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-democracy-of-voices-if-we-can-keep-it/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-democracy-of-voices-if-we-can-keep-it/#respond Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1275346 I thought I was done with free speech. For nearly two decades, I reported on it for the international magazine Index on Censorship. I wrote a book, Outspoken: Free Speech Stories, about controversies over it. I even sang “I Like to Be in America” at the top of my lungs at an around-the-clock banned-book event organized by the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-democracy-of-voices-if-we-can-keep-it/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-too-much-is-not-enough/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-too-much-is-not-enough/#respond Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1269389 It began with Aaron Bushnell and a visceral response of mine: Why would anyone do such a thing? Bushnell was the 25-year-old active-duty airman who set himself ablaze on February 25th in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., to protest that country’s brutal war in Gaza. The first question was tough enough, but [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-too-much-is-not-enough/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-there-a-journalism-that-doesnt-love-a-war/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-there-a-journalism-that-doesnt-love-a-war/#respond Sun, 10 Mar 2024 13:18:59 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1263386 War, what is it good for? Well, the media for starters. Shortly after the Biden administration responded to the killing of three American soldiers in a drone attack on a base in Jordan by bombing 85 Iran-connected targets in Iraq and Syria, the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) asked in a headline: “Is the press dragging America to war [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-there-a-journalism-that-doesnt-love-a-war/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/power-protest-and-all-thats-news/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/power-protest-and-all-thats-news/#respond Tue, 12 Dec 2023 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1259231 What a world! For eight weeks now, events in Israel and Gaza have been the story of the hour, day, week. And what exactly are we to make of that?  Let’s start with the obvious: American media coverage of the horrors there has been nonstop since the Hamas slaughter of October 7th. In fact, it’s knocked [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/power-protest-and-all-thats-news/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hunting-the-military-extremist/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hunting-the-military-extremist/#respond Mon, 17 Jul 2023 13:44:55 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1249550 In April, when Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman with a top-secret clearance, was arrested for posting a trove of classified documents about the Russia-Ukraine war online, the question most often asked was: How did such a young, inexperienced, low-level technician have access to such sensitive material? What I wanted to know was: [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hunting-the-military-extremist/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/give-peace-a-chance/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/give-peace-a-chance/#respond Fri, 20 Jan 2023 16:31:08 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1237410 I like to sing and what I like best is to do so at the top of my lungs when I’m all alone. Last summer, taking a walk through the corn fields in New York’s Hudson River Valley with no one around but the barn swallows, I found myself belting out a medley of tunes [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/give-peace-a-chance/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ukraine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ukraine/#respond Wed, 18 May 2022 11:40:18 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1058334 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ukraine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-antiwar-movement-that-wasnt-enough/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-antiwar-movement-that-wasnt-enough/#respond Mon, 07 Feb 2022 12:57:29 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1054718 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-antiwar-movement-that-wasnt-enough/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-far-right-in-uniform/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-far-right-in-uniform/#respond Wed, 07 Apr 2021 09:02:38 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1045381 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-far-right-in-uniform/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/veterans-go-to-washington/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/veterans-go-to-washington/#respond Mon, 13 Jul 2020 09:02:36 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1036300 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/veterans-go-to-washington/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/veterans-lead-fight-against-sexual-assault-in-the-military/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/veterans-lead-fight-against-sexual-assault-in-the-military/#respond Sat, 02 Jul 2016 09:01:14 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=988046 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/veterans-lead-fight-against-sexual-assault-in-the-military/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-big-dick-school-of-american-patriotism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-big-dick-school-of-american-patriotism/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2015 09:01:46 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=971058 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-big-dick-school-of-american-patriotism/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mad-bad-sad-by-nan-levinson/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mad-bad-sad-by-nan-levinson/#respond Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:27:45 +0000 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mad-bad-sad-by-nan-levinson/feed/ 0