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Rep. Emanuel Cleaver: Ferguson looks like Iraq
Ian Blair
Military fatigues, heavily armored tanks, sniper rifles? Cleaver also called the local police "monumentally inept"
Ferguson’s weaponized cops and America’s long, ugly history of police violence
Andrew O'Hehir
Two dark forces collided in Ferguson: The militarization of America's cops and a long tradition of racist violence
7 astounding facts about the mind-blowing cost of war
Lynn Stuart Parramore
From World War II to the "war on terror," the tremendous cost of fighting is nothing short of catastrophic
Warrior cops on steroids: How post-9/11 hysteria created a policing monster
Heather Digby Parton
Since 9/11 we've spent huge sums to outfit local authorities with military gear. It's un-American -- and here's why
GOP’s one sacred principle: A spending philosophy of lies and troop worship
David Dayen
Remember all the talk about no new laws that weren't paid for? We've just learned there's a huge, glaring exception
The planet’s 10 most (and least) peaceful countries
Allegra Kirkland
A new report from the Institute for Economics and Peace ranks 162 nations by violence and political instability
Fox News has a new Cliven Bundy — and again, the right’s new hero has some explaining to do
John Avignone
Conservative media has a new cause célèbre, a former Marine on trial in Mexico. His story has an awful lot of holes
Hillary’s break from Obama: Here’s what it really means (hint: She’s still a hawk)
Jim Newell
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama still have different approaches to foreign policy. Sound the alarms!
See how they run: The 2016 presidential checklist
Calvin Woodward
Global aid operations are just one catastrophe away from total collapse
Nick Turse
America’s African experiment in nation building has its limits, and we're this close to flying over the edge
Politico has figured out Barack Obama’s big problem — and it’s golf
Jim Newell
Barack Obama enjoys playing golf! Here's why that totally unusual hobby perfectly explains the man's presidency
General killed in Afghan attack was engineer
Robert Burns
Israel has broken my heart: I’m a rabbi in mourning for a Judaism being murdered by Israel
Michael Lerner
I've always been proud of Israel, but the brutal Gaza assault requires Jews worldwide to be honest, not nationalist
7 insane problems outlined in the new Afghan reconstruction report
Jean MacKenzie
Corruption permeates almost ever facet of the Afghan government and may pose a bigger threat than the Taliban
Stephen Colbert needs a drink: “Things might actually be as bad as we make them sound on cable news”
Sarah Gray
Colbert is hitting the hard stuff to report on the, well, hard stuff
How to survive in post-constitutional America
Peter Van Buren
What happens when the executive branch can play judge, jury and executioner in the war on terror?
“The Kill Team”: When U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan became trophy hunters
Andrew O'Hehir
A wrenching documentary explores the Army's gruesome murders of Afghan civilians, and one soldier who spoke out
VIP boxes and seven-figure advances: How fiction gets the publishing industry laughably wrong
Laura Miller
The book business is not an easy setting to dramatize. But that sure hasn't stopped thriller writers from trying
The doomsday doctrine: How George W. Bush sent the world down the path of destruction
Jonathan Schell
After 9/11, people rightly said the world had changed forever. Now the future of the planet depends on fixing it
Dinesh D’Souza’s laughable embarrassment: A review of “America: Imagine the World Without Her”
Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig
From atrociously bad argumentation to humiliating propaganda, here's just how crazy Dinesh D'Souza's new movie is
How to survive an American century: From JFK to the apocalypse
Tom Engelhardt
Seventy years of lessons on the contradictions and dangers of global superpower-dom
Battleground voters’ rage: In which any endorsement will only backfire
Jim Newell
Battleground voters are skeptical of Congress and most politicians. And no endorsement's going to change that
“Tomlinson Hill”: A white man from Texas unearths his family’s shockingly racist past
Laura Miller
The story of two families, one black, one white -- with a painful shared history
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