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Here’s the full text of President Obama’s 2014 State of the Union address
Elias Isquith
President urges Congress to make 2014 "a year of action"
Carl Hiaasen on Jennifer Weiner: “I see the point she is trying to make, but the empirical evidence suggests otherwise”
Daniel D'Addario
The author talks to Salon about his new nonfiction collection, and whether gender has influenced his career
Noam Chomsky is right: It’s the so-called serious who devastate the planet and cause the wars
Greg Grandin
Fear the sober voices on the New York Times Op-Ed page and in the think tanks -- they're more dangerous than hawks
A soldier’s exorcism: “He could feel hot Jesus blood coming down over his face”
Jennifer Percy
Caleb lost eight friends in Iraq. When he returned home, they haunted him -- as did a demon he called the Destroyer
5 years after Obama’s first drone strike, US still avoiding responsibility for civilian caualties
Kevin Douglas Grant
At least 273 civilians have been killed by drones, yet the families of those lost still have no legal recourse
Still with the Russians? “Jack Ryan” channels Reagan-era paranoia
Daniel Carlson
The first post-9/11 "Ryan" flick skirts the "War on Terror" and keeps us fighting an old reliable Cold War enemy
Right-wing winter: Why conservative movies clean up in January
Noah Gittell
While liberals catch up on Oscar hopefuls, movies like "Lone Survivor" rake in conservative dollars
“Lone Survivor”: A fact check
Jean MacKenzie
The book upon which the Mark Wahlberg blockbuster is based betrays confusion about America's role in Afghanistan
Scahill on Oscar nod: We promised to bring drone victims’ stories to the world
Natasha Lennard
The "Dirty Wars" journalist and his director react to their Oscar nomination
America’s secret military is a massive ticking time bomb
Nick Turse
U.S. special forces are deployed in 134 countries around the world — providing 134 separate chances for disaster
Glenn Beck attacks film critic who didn’t like “Lone Survivor” — and so do the trolls
Daniel D'Addario
Beck's fans threaten a critic who called Mark Wahlberg vehicle anti-Muslim and jingoistic
“Lone Survivor”: A pro-war propaganda surprise hit
Andrew O'Hehir
Mark Wahlberg kills Taliban by the dozens in Hollywood's first 2014 smash, a shameless war-porn spectacle
GOP hypocrites neglect poor — while drafting secret pro-military loophole
David Dayen
Buried deep into the budget bill being voted on today is a provision that tells you everything about our government
The next attack: “An explosive-stuffed model airplane guided by GPS”
Patrick Coffey
America has smart bombs and drones. Others could create something as deadly with a remote-controlled car and camera
4 biggest threats to global peace: Guess who’s No. 1?
Sarah Wolfe
Nope, it's not China, Iran or Israel: The U.S. is the country viewed most negatively, according to a global survey
Most important political news this week: New report kills GOP’s radical agenda
Brian Beutler
Christie and the bridge is big. But Obamacare driving down healthcare inflation is even bigger. Here's why
The rise of the military’s secret military
Nick Turse
They're called Special Operation Forces — and they're everywhere
Robert Gates in new memoir: Obama doubted Afghanistan surge would work
Elias Isquith
The former secretary of defense describes an ambivalent president and a clueless vice president
The shadow government’s secret religion
Tom Engelhardt
Why the national security state that emerged after 9/11 is a warrior religion dedicated to perpetual conflict
From Nixon to Paul Ryan: How right-wing radicals deceive America
Paul Rosenberg
By shifting the spectrum of debate, here's how America's rightward march has been normalized throughout history
10 striking images of graffiti in Kandahar
Nash Riggins
On cement blockades throughout Kandahar, members of the military defy orders to make art
Susan Sontag was right: War photography can anesthetize
CHLOE PANTAZI
A troubling new exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art throws into question the medium's very purpose
Three detainees to be deferred from Gitmo to Slovakia
Associated Press
Uighar detainees, determined some time ago to have no terror ties, had been held for 12 years at Gitmo
The year in misery: 2013
Natasha Lennard
Totalized surveillance, civilian drone deaths, war crimes, racist policing and more. Happy Holidays, America!
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