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How Bush opened the door for ISIS
William J. Astore
In Iraq, the U.S. is learning the hard way that even sophisticated training is not enough to sustain a foreign army
North America is a crime scene: The untold history of America this Columbus Day
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The founding myth of the United States is a lie. It is time to re-examine our ruthless past -- and present
Guantanamo’s horrifying irony: How Bush’s shadow looms over shutting it down
Simon Maloy
Obama is mulling executive action to close Gitmo -- and he may have to trade one ugly Bush legacy for another
Atheism, Islam and liberalism: This is what we are really fighting about
Andrew O'Hehir
The debate raging in American culture boils down to an even simpler divide than you think
They won, we lost: How corruption became America’s national pastime
Janine Wedel
How the nation's corporate elite "extorts hard working people for their own political and financial gains"
Bill Maher and Sam Harris’ blind spot: American-on-Arab violence, and religious right extremism at home
Kyle Schmidlin
One key point is missing from the "Real Time" debate over Islam: Our own role in killing and displacing Arabs
“He had to literally collect pieces of his men from the ground after an ambush”: Joshua Ferris interviews Paolo Giordano
Joshua Ferris
"The Human Body" is a brilliant new addition to modern war literature. Joshua Ferris gets the story of its creation
Bobby Jindal’s foreign policy farce: Inside a dopey pre-presidential routine
Jim Newell
Louisiana governor is latest presidential possibility to "lay out his foreign policy vision." Hint: it's hawkish
Why Americans are so easily terrorized by ISIS
Tom Engelhardt
Fear-mongering has been the U.S. media soundtrack since 9/11. Like Muzak, it's affected us in ways we don't realize
The “New American Century” is over before it started
Pepe Escobar
While America battles ISIS in the Middle East, a new kind of threat to its global hegemony is emerging in Eurasia
The ballad of Marine Todd, apocryphal right-wing hero
David Roth
The legend of a fed-up marine who knocks out his atheist professor is more than a meme. It's folk literature
U.S. government to American people: Stay away from these countries
Simran Khosla
In total, the State Department has travel warnings in place for 41 nations across the globe
Hypocrite GOPer gets comeuppance: “Our district deserves somebody who’s honest”
Elias Isquith
Lenda Sherrell tells Salon about facing Rep. Scott DesJarlais, the "pro-life" GOPer caught in a tawdry sex scandal
“A very brutal style of warfare”: Terrorism expert explains ISIS — and what you should really know
Elias Isquith
ISIS may be the result of American policy, but it doesn't mean we can make them just go away, an expert tells Salon
Lies the media repeats about Iraq: Phony patriotism, fake Syrian “moderates” and the very real end of empire
Patrick L. Smith
We have made a shocking mess in the Middle East. This new adventure sets America up for incredible decline
Obama’s U.N. speech: We won’t be “an occupying power”
Julie Pace, Josh Lederman
In speech before General Assembly, president says the world is "at a crossroads between war and peace"
Who profits from our new war? Inside NSA and private contractors’ secret plans
Tim Shorrock
A massive war operation is being waged to track and kill ISIS -- and it's a lot more than cruise missiles
Obama’s top 5 “war” euphemisms: Words he’s used to avoid calling latest war a “war”
Luke Brinker
Here's how the president is avoiding the W word. It's a campaign!
The right’s Alinsky problem: Desperate right-wing ploy to make “radicals” of Obama and Clinton
Simon Maloy
Conservatives obsess over a long-dead radical activist's links to Democrats, and lash out when nobody seems to care
Higher ed’s obscene profit scheme: Schools, banks and the government win — you drown in debt
Astra Taylor, Hannah Appel
A lifetime of debt, but lousy job prospects. For-profit colleges are a big waste, but schools sure do cash in
Rand Paul’s essential fraud: Why he can’t be the spokesman for civil liberties or anti-war
Heather Digby Parton
Paul grabs headlines for being an uneven, inconsistent war skeptic -- when there are actual real ones in Congress
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