Opinion

2009: The year in crazy!

Help Salon count down the 10 nuttiest newsmakers in the last 12 months, and pick our No. 1
Joan Walsh
Afghanistan

War and public opinion

Fighting wars without public support or for undisclosed reasons is profoundly undemocratic
Glenn Greenwald
Terrorism

The alleged growing domestic Muslim threat

Why, after a decade, would American Muslims suddenly become radicalized?
Glenn Greenwald
Guantanamo

Welcome to GITMO North

What's the point of moving the essential elements of this detention camp to Illinois?
Glenn Greenwald

Secret war purposes and justifications

Are the real reasons for fighting in Afghanistan being concealed by the administration?
Glenn Greenwald
Bank bailouts

Moral hazards for Democrats

It's bad business for Obama's party to reward him for rewarding Wall Street shills
David Sirota

Salon Radio: Critical state secrets hearing today

A court reviews the Bush/Obama theory that secret presidential lawbreaking is immunized from judicial review. Audio
U.S. House of Representatives

Dear nobodies

A congressman writes to his constituents: "Thank God for gerrymandering"
Michael Lind
Acorn

Videos were propaganda

A report hammers the organization's leadership but points out duplicity in the famous tapes
Joe Conason
Energy

China wins struggle for Pipelinestan

While the U.S. is stuck in Afghanistan, China sneaks off quietly with the resource prize
Juan Cole

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Monday, Dec 14, 2009 02:15 EST

Getting real tough with the bankers

One Wall Street executive mocks Obama's meeting as a "P.R. stunt"
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Friday, Dec 11, 2009 22:13 EST

Major victory for ACORN and the Constitution

A federal judge strikes down Congress' unconstitutional de-funding of the unpopular group.
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Friday, Dec 11, 2009 03:12 EST

The strange consensus on Obama's Nobel address

Why did so many liberals and conservatives both find so much to cheer in the president's foreign policy speech?
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Thursday, Dec 10, 2009 05:11 EST

Meet your new health insurance company overlords

After reform, insurers won't have to worry about competition
By Robert Reich
Thursday, Dec 10, 2009 03:11 EST

Top 5 ways Obama can redeem his Nobel

The president got his prize as an encouragement. Here's how he can rise to the occasion
By Juan Cole
Thursday, Dec 10, 2009 01:11 EST

Supporting the ACLU

The financial crisis threatens to curtail vital Constitutional and civil liberties defenses.
Glenn Greenwald
Wednesday, Dec 9, 2009 14:11 EST

Obama gets real in Afghanistan

For all the ambiguity of his new policy, he is admitting that U.S. power has limits and priorities
By Gene Lyons
Wednesday, Dec 9, 2009 08:10 EST

Why don't the powerful get grilled like this?

Rachel Maddow destroys anti-gay "researcher" Richard Cohen, but he was an easy target Video
Glenn Greenwald
Wednesday, Dec 9, 2009 03:10 EST

President's jobs initiative doesn't measure up

The president is trying to avoid criticism on spending with a small jobs plan, just when we need a big one
By Robert Reich
Wednesday, Dec 9, 2009 02:10 EST

Tony Blair's taxi-derived "45-minute" WMD claim

A British investigation reveals embarrassing details of just how knowingly false was the pre-Iraq hysteria.
Glenn Greenwald
Tuesday, Dec 8, 2009 14:09 EST

'Tis the season to be grumpy

If you're tired of enforced joyfulness, go to New York: Christmas has some opposition there
By Garrison Keillor
Tuesday, Dec 8, 2009 07:09 EST

My friend the president

The deep anger some Obama supporters display toward criticism of their leader is both familiar and disturbing Video
Glenn Greenwald
Tuesday, Dec 8, 2009 02:09 EST

Student protests swarm Iran

Demonstrations span geographic, ethnic divides Video
By Juan Cole
Monday, Dec 7, 2009 17:08 EST

Is the public option worth fighting for?

Some liberals are saying no, if they can get a compromise to lower healthcare costs and expand Medicare instead
Joan Walsh
Monday, Dec 7, 2009 14:05 EST

Shocking news: The world is stable!

China dominance? U.S. decline and fall? Believe it when you see it
By Michael Lind
Monday, Dec 7, 2009 04:08 EST

Editorial: They don't come greener than Obama

European critics are calling Barack Obama a traitor on climate change, but he's America's greenest president ever
By Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff
Monday, Dec 7, 2009 03:08 EST

Why the climate talks will be a disaster

Politics-as-usual won't solve our most pressing problem, no matter what Obama brings to the table
By Bill McKibben
Monday, Dec 7, 2009 00:08 EST

A new report questions "suicides" at Guantanamo

Why is the Obama DOJ attempting to block judicial review of three highly suspicious deaths?
Glenn Greenwald
Friday, Dec 4, 2009 07:05 EST

The best-case Afghanistan scenario

Obama's plan may try to force rapid reconciliation among the country's warring factions
By Joe Conason
Friday, Dec 4, 2009 03:05 EST

Pakistan, Taliban say bin Laden may be in Afghanistan

Where should the U.S. even be looking for the terrorist leader? Video
By Juan Cole
Friday, Dec 4, 2009 02:05 EST

Do Obama officials know what his Afghanistan plan is?

Why are key aides contradicting each other on a central point? Plus: My TV debate with Christopher Hitchens Video
Glenn Greenwald
Thursday, Dec 3, 2009 06:04 EST

America's regression

It's almost impossible to find a nation with as many torture advocates as the U.S. has.
Glenn Greenwald
Thursday, Dec 3, 2009 03:04 EST

Without smart investments, high unemployment will be permanent

It's going to take more than a White House jobs summit to revive the labor market
By Robert Reich
Wednesday, Dec 2, 2009 14:03 EST

Find God, get out of jail, slaughter again

Why did Mike Huckabee pardon child rapist Maurice Clemmons? Because God told him to
By Gene Lyons
Wednesday, Dec 2, 2009 13:03 EST

The poster boy for progressive self-delusion

Read Hayden's 2008 Obama endorsement to remember the way the left sold our centrist president to itself
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