Opinion

Afghanistan

The best-case Afghanistan scenario

Obama's plan may try to force rapid reconciliation among the country's warring factions
Joe Conason
2008 Elections

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
Joan Walsh
Afghanistan

The commendably missing claim from Obama's speech

There was no pretense that human rights is our goal, or the likely outcome, in escalating the war
Glenn Greenwald
Torture

America's regression

It's almost impossible to find a nation with as many torture advocates as the U.S. has.
Glenn Greenwald
Unemployment

Jobs: Going beyond short-term fixes

We need massive, permanent federal investment in infrastructure and public services, not symbolism like a new WPA
Michael Lind
Afghanistan

We've heard this before

The "new" approach to Afghanistan touted by White House officials seems quite old
Glenn Greenwald
Afghanistan

What (sort of) worked in Iraq won't in Afghanistan

Good timing made Bush's surge look successful. Obama will probably enjoy no such luck
Juan Cole
Mike Huckabee

Find God, get out of jail, slaughter again

Why did Mike Huckabee pardon child rapist Maurice Clemmons? Because God told him to
Gene Lyons
Mike Huckabee

Fatally bad judgment

Brutality by another Huck-pardoned criminal suggests the 2012 GOP hopeful listened more to pastors than prosecutors
Joe Conason
Unemployment

Unemployment will stick around -- if we let it

It's going to take more than a White House jobs summit to revive the labor market
Robert Reich

Hot Topics

More in Opinion

Friday, Dec 4, 2009 06:05 PST

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 05:05 PST

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
Wednesday, Dec 2, 2009 11:03 PST

Is the jobs summit just a photo op?

Not if Obama focuses on creating work for the Americans who were left behind even before the recession
By Angela Blackwell
Tuesday, Dec 1, 2009 17:02 PST

Republicans play Scrooge, minus the change of heart

The truth of Christmas -- rejoice and show mercy to the poor -- is tested as we move toward universal healthcare
By Garrison Keillor
Tuesday, Dec 1, 2009 17:02 PST

Yes, it's Obama's war now

An uninspiring speech sells a dubious policy, but progressives who feel betrayed have only themselves to blame
Joan Walsh
Tuesday, Dec 1, 2009 03:31 PST

Has everything changed for women?

I talk to Gail Collins about what Mad Men gets right, black v. white women's rights and whether Palin is a feminist Video
Joan Walsh
Tuesday, Dec 1, 2009 03:02 PST

No one at the wheel in Afghanistan

A fraudulently elected president is presiding over an empty cabinet, while the parliament plays hooky
By Juan Cole
Monday, Nov 30, 2009 06:31 PST

On housing crisis, Wall Street feels no shame

While Americans suffer, glutted banks refuse to renegotiate mortgages or scale back bonuses
By Robert Reich
Monday, Nov 30, 2009 06:31 PST

Bigotry wins in Switzerland

By voting to ban the construction of minarets, Switzerland apes the most extreme intolerance in the Muslim world
By Juan Cole
Monday, Nov 30, 2009 03:31 PST

The face of rotted Washington

Evan Bayh demands more debt-financed war - fought by others - while boasting that he's a stern "deficit hawk."
Glenn Greenwald
Sunday, Nov 29, 2009 02:30 PST

The crazy, irrational beliefs of Muslims

Tom Friedman explains the real problem: stupid Muslims think the U.S. is about war and aggression.
Glenn Greenwald
Friday, Nov 27, 2009 18:01 PST

How dare you criticize wasteful defense spending!

So you think it's only terrorist-appeasing lefties who are down on Pentagon profligacy? Think again
By David Sirota
Friday, Nov 27, 2009 10:28 PST

Is Obama's civil liberties record understandable?

Was it unreasonable to expect him to adhere to his commitments regarding the Constitution?
Glenn Greenwald
Friday, Nov 27, 2009 03:28 PST

A key British official reminds us of the forgotten anthrax attack

A vast array of establishment and expert sources do not believe this episode was really resolved.
Glenn Greenwald
Wednesday, Nov 25, 2009 17:05 PST

Palin, Prejean: Beastly treatment for beauties

The governor turned author must fight what the pageant queen learned: Politics and hotness make strange bedfellows
By Gene Lyons
Wednesday, Nov 25, 2009 09:26 PST

Tough-guy John Bolton, hiding under his bed

As usual, right-wing pseudo-warriors are drowning in extreme cowardice. Video
Glenn Greenwald
Wednesday, Nov 25, 2009 02:26 PST

Phil Carter's resignation from key detainee policy post

Many of the "War on Terror" policies he spent years condemning were ones expressly embraced by Obama.
Glenn Greenwald
Tuesday, Nov 24, 2009 20:25 PST

I'm thankful I'm not President Obama

Backers deride Katrina-style negligence, haters hate him more each day. Can this presidency be saved? Of course
Joan Walsh
Tuesday, Nov 24, 2009 17:25 PST

The dinner of all dinners

On Thanksgiving we gather among our kin who know us a little too well, and put civility to a true test
By Garrison Keillor
Tuesday, Nov 24, 2009 02:25 PST

Greg Craig and Obama's worsening civil liberties record

A new Time account of the fall of Obama's White House counsel sheds much light on rule of law issues. Video
Glenn Greenwald
Monday, Nov 23, 2009 17:05 PST

Can populism be liberal?

The GOP has owned it since Nixon. Democrats would have to return to the New Deal to recapture it
By Michael Lind
Monday, Nov 23, 2009 03:24 PST

The extreme secrecy of the federal courts

Judges are not only permitted, but required, to conceal anything the government declares to be secret.
Glenn Greenwald
Saturday, Nov 21, 2009 02:22 PST

Rule-of-law extremism engulfs primitive Eastern Europe

Why would the new President of Lithuania demand investigations of CIA black sites in her country?
Glenn Greenwald
Friday, Nov 20, 2009 16:21 PST

Intelligentsia against intelligence

How did we end up with know-nothings for wise men?
By David Sirota
Friday, Nov 20, 2009 10:20 PST

A wobbly Democrat's moment of truth

Pressured from both sides, will a poll-wary Sen. Blanche Lincoln help the GOP sink healthcare reform?
By Joe Conason

Joan Walsh