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FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2010, file photo, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks in Washington. The jockeying to find a nominee to challenge President Barack Obama is a crowded, unsettled affair, but one thing's clear: It will be more conservative, to tp bottom, than was the Republican Primary four years ago, and several before that. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) (AP)

Is Mike Huckabee bored by foreign policy?

Justin Elliott
The potential 2012 hopeful says of the war in Afghanistan: "I don't know" what to do
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange listens as his lawyer Mark Stephens speaks outside Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in London, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Assange's lawyer and a Swedish legal expert on Tuesday accused Swedish prosecutors of irregularities and illegality in the way they built a sex crimes case against the WikiLeaks founder. Assange was in a London courtroom for a second day Tuesday, fighting extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over claims of rape and sexual molestation made by two Swedish women. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) (AP)

Assange faces extradition for sex crimes

Cassandra Vinograd
A British judge ruled that the Wikileaks founder can be extradited to Sweden. Assange's lawyer will appeal
Former presidents Buchanan and Bush

Who’s the worst president of them all?

Glenn W. LaFantasie
When it comes to who least deserves to be honored today, it's a close call between the 43rd and 15th presidents
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This week in winning hearts and minds

Glenn Greenwald
Four incidents from the last week alone highlight why there is intense anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world
In this Feb. 11, 2011 photo released by CBS, "60 Minutes" correspondent Lara Logan is shown covering the reaction in in Cairo's Tahrir Square the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down. CBS News says Logan was attacked Friday, and suffered a brutal beating and sexual assault before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She is recovering in a U.S. hospital. Logan, CBS News' chief foreign affairs correspondent, is one of at least 140 correspondents who have been injured or killed since Jan. 30 while covering the unrest in Egypt, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. (AP Photo/CBS News) (AP)

Female foreign correspondents’ code of silence, finally broken

Kim Barker
The assault of CBS reporter Lara Logan has brought public attention to the plight of female foreign correspondents

Glenn Beck accuses Planned Parenthood of assisting in sex trafficking

Peter Finocchiaro
The Fox News host spent an entire hour attacking the non-profit, says the organization abets in sex trafficking
Hamid Karzai

U.S. sanctions target Afghan money laundering

Deb Riechmann
Karzai government's ability to win public support has been hindered by accusations of bribery and suspicious loans
Lara Logan

The right makes hay with Lara Logan attack

Joan Walsh
Nir Rosen apologized for his tweets and lost his job, but righty bloggers keep using Logan's tragedy politically

How 480 characters unraveled my career

Nir Rosen
My tweets about Lara Logan cost me my job and humiliated my family. Here's what I meant to say
Afghan police men shout at photographers to prevent them approaching the entrance of damaged building of shopping complex after a suicide bomber detonated a cache of explosives inside the building in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb, 14, 2011. An explosion rocked a shopping and hotel complex on Monday, killing at least two people, officials said, in the second attack in less than a month inside the heavily secured Afghan capital. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) (AP)

The easy way to cut $100 billion

Tom Engelhardt
Serious about fixing our budget woes? Then it's time to defund the unwinnable disaster in Afghanistan
U. S. Senator John Kerry, left, meets Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011. Kerry's meeting with Pakistani officials is an indication that the American politician may have a rocky time convincing Pakistan to free a U. S. consulate employee Raymond Davis, allegedly involved in shooting of two Pakistanis.(AP Photo/B.K.Bangash) (AP)

Sen. Kerry upbeat after talks on Pakistan detention

Heidi Vogt, Munir Ahmed
Kerry met with Pakistani leaders to prevent a "diplomatic meltdown" over controversial detention of American worker
From left, Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen; Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Pentagon Comptroller Robert F. Hale, and others, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011, before the HouseArmed Services Committee hearing on the Defense Department's budget. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

Obama victory as House votes down expensive jet fighter engine

Andrew Taylor
The House of Representatives voted down an expensive next-generation military jet engine in floor vote today

I’m an AOL chatroom junkie

Gael McCarte
It's been 10 years, and I'm more addicted to my online community of politicos than ever
The American University of Iraq. Inset: Lynn Cheney.

The empire strikes again

Russ Baker, Kristina Borjesson
Sex, oil, chaos and corruption at the American University of Iraq
Copies of President Obama's 2012 budget are delivered to the Senate Budget Committee, Monday, Feb. 14, 2011, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

Deficit makes up biggest share of economy since 1945

Jeannine Aversa, Christopher S. Rugaber
President Obama's $1.6 trillion deficit has some economists worried about a spike in interests rates down the road

10 memorable scenes from Afghanistan

James Lee
Slide show: James Lee has captured extraordinary images from the war-torn country. Here are some favorites
FILE - This undated file photo obtained by The Associated Press shows Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private suspected of being the source of some of the unauthorized classified information disclosed on the WikiLeaks website. In a statement Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011, WikiLeaks said U.S. investigators had gone to the San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. to demand the private messages, contact information and other personal details of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Manning and other supporters. (AP Photo, File) (AP)

Why Bradley Manning is a patriot, not a criminal

Chase Madar
An opening statement for the defense of Pfc. Manning
FILE- In this file photo dated Friday Jan. 28, 2011, provided by Greenpeace, showing Daniel Domscheit-Berg during a news conference in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Domscheit-Berg is about to publish a book it is announced Monday Feb. 7, 2011, giving his insider account about secret spilling website WikiLeaks, entitled "Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website". Daniel Domscheit-Berg is the former spokesman for WikiLeaks, but left the site dramatically in September 2010 because of a differences of opinion with founder Julian Assange. (AP Photo/Greenpeace, Markus Forte, file) NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDIT, EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

Assange portrayed as “emperor” in insider book

Kirsten Grieshaber
Former Wikileaks insider describes his disillusionment, accuses Julian Assange of hypocrisy

At CIA, grave mistakes, then promotions

Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman
Wrongful CIA renditions and other fatal mistakes haven't kept careerists from climbing up in the agency hierarchy
Anti-government protesters demonstrate in Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Protesters appear to have settled in for a long standoff, turning Tahrir Square into a makeshift village with tens of thousands coming every day, with some sleeping in tents made of blankets and plastic sheeting. The arabic on the sign reads "The rage brings the light of freedom". (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill) (AP)

Egyptian opposition defiant over VP’s warning

Maggie Michael
Suleiman's warning has protesters increasingly suspicious about his U.S.-backed reform efforts
Afghans at the scene of an explosion in downtown of Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Afghan police say a bomb has exploded in a crowded intersection in downtown Kabul but there were no reports that anyone was killed. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

Hamid Karzai: NATO reconstruction bases must go

Adam Schreck
Afghan president says international development projects undermine his government's ability to gain greater control
Jimmy Carter

How Reaganism actually started with Carter

Michael Lind
Think Reagan was the first modern president to preach low taxes, free markets and morality?
Thousands of anti-government protesters gather in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. The protests, which saw tens of thousands of people massing daily in downtown Cairo for demonstrations that at times turned violent, have raised questions about the impact on the economy. More than 160,000 foreign tourists fled the country in a matter of days last week, in an exodus sure to hammer the vital tourism sector. (AP Photo/Manoocher Deghati) (AP)

Pox Americana

Tom Engelhardt
Why we shouldn't date the end of the Cold War to 1991 in Eastern Europe, but to 2011 in the Middle East
George W. Bush

Bush cancels Europe trip amid calls for his arrest

Justin Elliott
Amnesty International and other groups asked Swiss authorities to investigate the former president for torture
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