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Dems’ Ebola freak-out: Why the party’s defensive crouch feels a lot like 2004

Luke Brinker
Democrats are surrendering to the GOP's politics of fear. Why it's both bad politics and bad policy

Must-see morning clip: John Oliver blasts U.S. for deplorable treatment of troop-saving interpreters

Sarah Gray
"Ask any veteran and they will tell you that translators risked their own lives working for us"

“I’m not going away”: James Risen unloads to Salon about his government foes

Elias Isquith
In historic legal fight to protect sources, embattled reporter James Risen tells Salon how he plans to fight back

“Game of Thrones” should watch its back: Why this work of nonfiction is as riveting as the fantasy

Laura Miller
The author of a page-turning new history of the Wars of the Roses talks Westeros, child kings, and George RR Martin

More dumb foreign policy conventional wisdom: Even CIA admits arming rebels isn’t working

Elias Isquith
A newly disclosed CIA report reveals the stubbornness — and stupidity — of our international policy consensus

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

10 Things to Know for Today

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
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