Opinion

Sarah Palin

Palin, Prejean: Beastly treatment for beauties

The governor turned author must fight what the pageant queen learned: Politics and hotness make strange bedfellows
Gene Lyons

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
Torture

Rule-of-law extremism engulfs weird Eastern Europe

Why would the new President of Lithuania demand investigations of CIA black sites in her country?
Glenn Greenwald
Barack Obama

Phil Carter's resignation from key detainee post

Many of the "War on Terror" policies he spent years condemning were ones expressly embraced by Obama.
Glenn Greenwald
Barack Obama

Greg Craig and Obama's 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
Media Criticism

Intelligentsia against intelligence

How did we end up with know-nothings for wise men?
David Sirota
Thanksgiving

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
Garrison Keillor
Populism

Can populism be liberal?

The GOP has owned it since Nixon. Democrats would have to return to the New Deal to recapture it
Michael Lind
Healthcare Reform

A wobbly Democrat's moment of truth

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

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

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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
Friday, Nov 20, 2009 04:21 PST

The Washington establishment suffers a serious defeat

Approval of the Paul/Grayson bill to audit the Fed is both rare and important in several ways
Glenn Greenwald
Thursday, Nov 19, 2009 23:20 PST

More GOP lies about healthcare reform

Republicans who know better falsely claim that the panel recommending fewer mammograms is a Dem plan for rationing
Joan Walsh
Thursday, Nov 19, 2009 10:20 PST

The public option ain't what it used to be

There's almost nothing left to give away in a healthcare compromise
By Robert Reich
Thursday, Nov 19, 2009 05:20 PST

The administration guts its own argument for 9/11 trials

If some detainees get military commissions or indefinite detention, how can 9/11 trials be justified?
Glenn Greenwald
Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009 17:19 PST

Palin-Beck 2012? Sarah says maybe

She'll never be U.S. president, but her star power ought to scare the hell out of her charisma-free GOP rivals Video
Joan Walsh
Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009 16:19 PST

The war industry's drums are beating

The pressure is on President Obama to act quickly in Afghanistan. But why?
By Gene Lyons
Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009 08:19 PST

The great jobs-stocks disconnect

The stock market is getting stronger because unemployment is getting worse
By Robert Reich
Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009 00:19 PST

The Weekly Standard's ACLU smear indicts only itself

Neoconservative contempt for the Constitution is not only un-American; it is al-Qaida's greatest ally
Glenn Greenwald
Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009 16:18 PST

How do you solve a problem like Jon Meacham?

Hell freezes over: I agree with Sarah Palin. Newsweek's out of context short-shorts cover was sexist
Joan Walsh
Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009 16:18 PST

Staking out my aesthetic

Still lifes of flowers? Why bother. The true calling of an artist is to paint the naked female form
By Garrison Keillor
Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009 08:18 PST

Obama, China and wishful thinking on jobs

The U.S. and China can both produce more than their consumers can buy, and both want to keep it that way
By Robert Reich
Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009 03:18 PST

CNN on our new "huge, huge bomb" to use against Iran

What could possibly lead Iran to want to hide their nuclear facilities?
Glenn Greenwald
Monday, Nov 16, 2009 16:17 PST

The Pledge of Allegiance is un-American

Shouldn't the government pledge allegiance to the people rather than the other way around?
By Michael Lind
Monday, Nov 16, 2009 15:17 PST

I have Palin fatigue already

Her rehab tour is about Sarah Palin Inc. not 2012, but her appeal reflects an anti-elite anger Dems can't ignore
Joan Walsh
Monday, Nov 16, 2009 07:17 PST

The new Palin campaign commences

Her publicity blitz begins today -- and all the slings and arrows will only make her stronger
By Max Blumenthal
Monday, Nov 16, 2009 03:17 PST

Ex-Islamic radicals on what motivates -- and impedes -- extremism

Why are such glaring truths about the effects of our policies continuously ignored?
Glenn Greenwald
Saturday, Nov 14, 2009 02:15 PST

The Right's textbook "surrender to terrorists"

"We're too scared to have real trials in our country" is a level of cowardice unmatched in the world.
Glenn Greenwald
Saturday, Nov 14, 2009 01:15 PST

The new WH counsel and "Scooter Libby justice"

Robert Bauer's passionate call for a pardon of his fellow Washington lawyer sheds light on his thinking.
Glenn Greenwald
Friday, Nov 13, 2009 16:14 PST

The real deficit hawks

Critics decry the healthcare bill as fiscally irresponsible. Where's the outrage over the defense budget?
By David Sirota
Friday, Nov 13, 2009 10:14 PST

An open letter to Harry Reid on healthcare costs

If we can't get costs under control, we've blown it
By Robert Reich
Friday, Nov 13, 2009 04:14 PST

Detainees to get the "state-always-wins" system of "justice"

Obama's announcement to try 9/11 defendants would be commendable if it applied to all, rather than some, detainees.
Glenn Greenwald
Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 16:13 PST

Lou Dobbs for president!

The former CNN host sounds like he's running for office -- and if so, he's a GOP nightmare
By Joe Conason
Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 07:13 PST

Marine assaults priest, claims gay, Arab panic

Attacker's lawyer actually tries for a Muslim, gay harassment defense
By Darren Hutchinson
Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 04:13 PST

The sleazy advocacy of a leading "liberal hawk"

Peter Galbraith's vast, undisclosed financial interests in the policies he spent years advocating as an "expert."
Glenn Greenwald

Joan Walsh