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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

“My boys”: The Syrian street kids who found me

Emily Jane O'Dell
I was a professor far from home. They were refugees. With a camera, we saw the world through each other's eyes

Obama, the slide back to Iraq and the power of the “Deep State”

Andrew O'Hehir
Critics like Michael Moore are partly right -- but Obama's doomed presidency is more momentous than they think

This is how ISIS wins: Repeating the Bush/Cheney/Rove approach just won’t work

Paul Rosenberg
The way to battle ISIS long-term is to understand its appeal and retain our humanity. Take Sun Tzu's word for it!

We really must remember the epic failures of George W. Bush

Paul Rosenberg
The New York Times wants us to forget how we got here. The real problem is that Barack Obama stopped reminding us

The deadly truth about vaccine denialism

Cliff Weathers
"People assume this will never happen to them until it happens to them"

Why America will never win the war on terror

Tom Engelhardt
The U.S. military is neither a nation nor an army builder. It bodes ill for our future efforts in the Middle East

A suggestion for the House Benghazi committee: Let’s talk about private military contractors

Mitchell Zuckoff
Here's a topic Benghazi hearings should cover: Military contractors' enormous role, and their shameful treatment

Administration says Syrian rebels it wants to arm to fight ISIS are not secretly allied with ISIS

Elias Isquith
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest pushes back on the latest argument from intevention skeptics

Scott Walker’s sinister “voter ID” lifeline: How a new ruling could save his hide

Brad Friedman
Voter suppression laws get huge boost from right-wing judges in WI and NC, where hundreds recently disenfranchised

One 3-letter word has the White House spooked: Why it’s so cagey about saying “war”

Simon Maloy
The administration is unclear whether we're "at war" with ISIS, and America is unclear on what it wants from "war"

“Dude, you get to blow up stuff”: The moral awakening of a Navy man

Keith Gentry
We had become so desensitized to death we laughed at violent YouTube videos. I wanted more than blind patriotism

Obama channels Reagan: Why his ISIS strategy is doomed from the start

Stephan Richter, Richard Phillips
The Gipper's muscular foreign policy did nothing to prevent terrorist attacks. Obama's falling into the same trap

Power shift expected in Swedish election

Karl Ritter

Pentagon report slams humanitarian aid missions in Africa

Nick Turse
U.S. military officials are unable to win over Africans vulnerable to violent extremism, claims watchdog agency

Ted Rall’s “uncomfortable truths”: How exiting Afghanistan risks “tremendous national trauma”

Elias Isquith
The celebrated cartoonist, journalist and war correspondent tells Salon about his travels and epic new book

AP: More than 5,000 dead in C. African Republic

Krista Larson

Malala Yousafzai’s attackers have been arrested

Munir Ahmed
The Pakistani army has apprehended 10 militants linked to the 2012 attack that nearly killed the teen activist

Obama’s ISIS speech: Our ugly national security politics, laid bare

Elias Isquith
As the president described his plan to drop more bombs in the Middle East, conservatives bayed for total war
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