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Politics (page 1988)

Navy SEALs in Afghanistan with an MH-47 Chinook in the background.

Michelle Rhee and Scott Walker, together at last

William Temple

Jonathan Easley

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A man holds a sign at a tax day rally by Tea Party activists in the New York City suburb of New City, New York, April 15, 2010. April 15 is the deadline for filing tax returns in the U.S. REUTERS/Mike Segar (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS) (Reuters)

Michael Winship

Donald Trump speaks to a crowd of 600 people during a gathering of Republican women's groups, Thursday, April 28, 2011, in Las Vegas. Trump's flirtation with a White House bid continued Thursday night with a lavish reception at the Treasure Island casino in Las Vegas.(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) (AP)

Jerome Corsi

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Possible 2012 presidential hopeful, former Republican U.S. Sen., Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania speaks during a dinner sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, Friday, April 29, 2011 in Manchester , N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole) (AP)

The problem with being a loser

U.S. Navy SEALs conduct immediate action drills during predeployment training at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi Oct. 25, 2010. Navy SEALs are the maritime component of U.S. Special Operations Command and are trained to conduct a variety of operations from the sea, air and land. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John Scorza/Released) (Mass Communication Specialist 2n)

FILE -This undated file photo, shows Osama bin Laden. Americans are expected to get a glimpse of Osama bin Laden's daily life with the disclosure of home videos showing him strolling around his secret compound, along with propaganda tapes that have never been made public (AP Photo/File) (AP)

Bin Laden's fear-mongering value still lives

Glenn Greenwald

A strike against the "socialist" label

Jonathan Easley

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Fort Sumter

Glenn W. LaFantasie

In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and acquired Saturday April 23, 2011, by The AP, Syrian anti-government protesters carry the coffin of an activist who was killed on Friday during his funeral procession in Quaboun near Damascus, Syria, Saturday, April 23, 2011. Syrian security forces fired on tens of thousands of mourners during funeral processions Saturday, killing several people following the deadliest day of the uprising against authoritarian President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo) (Str)

U.S. tries to assassinate U.S. citizen

Glenn Greenwald

John Yoo on Eliot Spitzer's CNN show, "In the Arena."

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David Brooks

Center: John Chasnoff of ACLU and Gail Wechsler of Jewish Community Relations Council of STL

John Bolton

Bolton: I care about things besides bombing Iran

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In this April 25, 2011 photo, a "We're Hiring!" sign is shown at Office Depot in Mountain View, Calif. More people sought unemployment benefits last week, the second rise in three weeks, a sign the job market's recovery is slow and uneven.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) (AP)

Unemployment is up -- and that's good news

Natasha Lennard

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio gestures while speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 8, 2011, to respond to criticism by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. on the budget impasse. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

What the 2012 race will really be about

FILE - In this Dec. 24, 1998 file photo, Muslim militant and al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden speaks to a selected group of reporters in mountains of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. The Americans who raided bin Laden's lair met far less resistance than the Obama administration described in the aftermath, according to its latest account. The commandos encountered gunshots from only one man, whom they quickly killed, before sweeping the house and shooting others, who were unarmed, a senior defense official said. (AP Photo/Rahimullah Yousafzai, File) (AP)

The dangerous precedent of the bin Laden killing

Glenn Greenwald

President Barack Obama and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka

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