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Obamanomics one year out
Robert Reich
Sagging demand and soaring deficits have the right wing going nuts and the president against the wall
The GOP’s bad old ideas
Michael Lind
Bomb Iran and privatize Social Security. Really? That's all you've got?
Does the Taliban want to talk peace with the U.S.?
Joe Conason
A team of ex-Taliban officials is quietly promoting negotiations -- and say their old comrades would dump al- Qaida
Cash only for spies
Mike Madden
Spotted at the CIA gift shop: an unusual warning for undercover officers
On the claimed “war exception” to the Constitution
Glenn Greenwald
An Obama official acknowledges the targeting of American citizens for assassination -- with no judicial oversight
House Republican asks for probe of Navy whistle-blower’s firing
Mark Benjamin
Walter Jones wants to know why a Camp Lejeune psychiatrist was fired -- and why his personnel records were doctored
3 US soldiers die in blast near Pakistan school
Sherin Zada, Munir Ahmad
Roadside bomb kills 3 U.S. soldiers and flattens school in northwest Pakistan
What won’t the GOP do to block Obama on security?
Joan Walsh
On the campaign trail John McCain supported closing Guantanamo, but he's opposing Obama's plan to do it
A step toward repealing gay military ban
Anne Gearan, Anne Flaherty
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Pentagon officials will announce review of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
Best of Sundance: Year of the woman
Andrew O'Hehir
Female directors dominate Redford's winter showcase -- and my list of the 2010 fest's best films
Obama unveils $3.83 trillion budget
Martin Crutsinger
Proposal would jack up the deficit while going after unemployment
“There has to be peace now”
Susanne Koelbl, Ralf Neukirch
In an interview, Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he's ready to talk with the Taliban
Navy supervisor doctored whistle-blower’s records
Mark Benjamin
Fired after criticizing subpar care for Marines, a psychiatrist finds his good personnel reviews turned to bad
Bin Laden blames U.S. for Salinger’s death
Con Chapman
Suddenly, the al-Qaida leader has an opinion about everything!
At Afghan conference, Clinton seeks penalties for Iran
Matthew Lee
In London, the U.S. secretary of state pushes for new U.N. sanctions against Iran
U.S. troops kill Afghan cleric
Kim Gamel, Amir Shah
Despite recent efforts to decrease civilian casualties, American forces kill cleric driving with his son
Speech was short on foreign policy thinking
Juan Cole
The president didn't have much of substance to say on the region that will give him his worst crises
“I have never been more hopeful about America’s future”
Salon Staff
Complete transcript of President Obama's State of the Union speech
Presidential assassinations of U.S. citizens
Glenn Greenwald
It was controversial when Bush imprisoned foreign nationals without charges; what about killing U.S. citizens?
The sanctity of military spending
Glenn Greenwald
As Washington prepares to demand sacrifice from everyone, the National Security State is exempt as always
Sundance: An Ozark noir; Pat Tillman revealed
Andrew O'Hehir
A dynamite backwoods crime thriller; Pat Tillman's life and death; Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley make a monster
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