Wartime songs, or "ditties" (an old-fashioned term for poems with catchy tunes), create camaraderie among troops yearning for places, people, and things they've left behind. These tunes live long ...

Alex Garland’s incendiary “Civil War” is now in theaters, and it’s sure to get people talking. The film imagines a near-future where America is engaged in another Civil War, this time with multiple ...

Not every great protest song is in your face or direct about its message. Some songwriters take a more poetic approach to singing anti-war songs. Let’s take a look at four tracks that are very much ...