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Will U.S. drone program turn the country into a pariah?
Jean MacKenzie
Chided by rights groups for the UAV bombings' civilian casualties, the US is losing its moral high ground
It’s OK to sit out a war now and then
Andrew Bacevich
The New York Times is always worrying about the "new isolationism"
Obama calls trusted fixer to help health care site
Darlene Superville
Jeffrey Zients has a record of getting this president out of difficult situations
In Nevada middle school shooting, teacher died protecting students
Natasha Lennard
An 8th-grade student at Sparks Middle School opened fire in a classroom, killing a math teacher then himself
NBC’s Richard Engel misleading take on Muslim violence
Zaid Jilani
His report on Muslims killing Muslims was just thinly masked Orientalism
U.S. drone strikes may constitute war crimes
Natasha Lennard
Amnesty, Human Rights Watch highlight civilian deaths in Yemen, Pakistan, question legal framework for drone kills
15 urgent fixes for America’s failing state
Stephan Richter
The very notion used to beg disbelief -- until the U.S. began flirting with default. Here's the way forward
The world’s greatest imaginary animals
Timothy McGrath
Just about every country has one. Welcome to the weird world of "cryptids"
Sam Harris slurs Malala: Famed atheist wrongly co-opts teenager’s views
Murtaza Hussain
With disregard for Malala's faith and actual opinions, the atheist thinker uses her to continue his anti-Muslim war
U.N. tells U.S. to release drone assassination data
Alice Ross
"The single greatest obstacle to an evaluation of the civilian impact of drone strikes is lack of transparency"
“The Fifth Estate”: WikiLeaks as failed bromance
Andrew O'Hehir
Benedict Cumberbatch makes a compelling Julian Assange, but the real WikiLeaks drama gets swamped in triviality
Obama: Dictator and hostage
Natasha Lennard
At once we have an executive "held up" by Congress -- but with unfettered authority over surveillance and drone war
Boehner’s “a disaster,” Cruz an “intelligent fool,” and heroin should be legal: Barney Frank talks to Salon
Josh Eidelson
Former congressman Barney Frank slams ex-colleagues, questions banks' clout, and predicts how the shutdown will end
Malala calls Obama out on drones
Katie McDonough
The administration's use of drones is "fueling terrorism" and killing innocent people, says the 16-year-old actvist
Greed destroyed us all: George W. Bush and the real story of the Great Recession
Richard S. Grossman
Faulty monetary policy and insufficient regulation helped — but old-fashioned avarice really tanked the economy
David Finkel: I like to embed in the story
Alex Halperin
The Pulitzer Prize winner talks to Salon about his new book and the hard lives of soldiers coming home from war
“Captain Phillips,” the shutdown and American nationalism in decline
Andrew O'Hehir
Is Tom Hanks' "Captain Phillips" a paean to red-state nationalism -- or just a casualty of our crazy politics?
War and surveillance have acquired their own etiquette
Tom Engelhardt
A new spin on the advice column
Anniversary of an endless war
Natasha Lennard
It's been 12 years since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, but anniversaries make little sense when wars are boundless
America is facing a hunger crisis
Richard Schiffman
Poverty rates have not gone down and hunger in our country may be at its highest levels since the Great Depression
Tales of a female hitchhiker
Toby Israel
I faced danger at times, but when I hopped into strangers' cars, I was surprised by something else completely
Phony balance, manufactured conflict: The media just confuses the truth
Thomas Patterson
By feasting on controversy and focusing on the trivial, the media misinforms us about policy and misserves us all
The War on Terror, starring an American journalist
David Mizner
For all its merits, the victims shown in "Dirty Wars" never become more than victims. Jeremy Scahill is the star
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