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Barack Obama’s premature Nobel peace prize
Andrew Leonard
Yes, the President looks good hanging out with world leaders and his heart is in the right place. Is that enough?
Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize
Glenn Greenwald
A story that at first seems like an Onion gag continues to feel that way upon further reflection.
Eight more years?
Joan Walsh
It's hard not to think of Vietnam as Obama mulls sending more troops to Afghanistan
Girl, you’ll be a bloodthirsty gladiator soon
Steve Almond
Lise Haines talks about her young adult novel, and why the fictional violence isn't so removed from today's culture
The suffocatingly narrow Afghanistan “debate”
Glenn Greenwald
The supposed "costs" of leaving Afghanistan are endlessly highlighted, but the costs from staying are ignored.
Arlington Cemetery unveils a new unknown soldier
Mark Benjamin
The first headstone stamped "Unknown" since 1984 is the result not of war's chaos, but of human error
What else could our bailout money have bought?
Matt Bivens
For $4 trillion, we could've wiped out any number of diseases worldwide
The sources used by the Liberal Media
Glenn Greenwald
The Sunday news shows create intense cognitive dissonance: A debt-crippled nation debating whom to attack next
Who are “the deciders”?
David Sirota
It's upside-down for political leaders to defer to military decisions
Is Obama man or mouse?
Gene Lyons
Asks the Beltway punditocracy, which treats foreign policy like a theater of machismo
Arlington Cemetery: Millions in contracts, no work completed
Mark Benjamin
An official of the graveyard keeps sending work to the same small group of associates, with few results
“Afghanistan is Mr. Obama’s war of choice”
Gregor Peter Schmitz, Gabor Steingart
Foreign relations expert Richard Haass says in an interview that Afghanistan is no longer a necessary war
A glossary of terms in foreign affairs
Glenn Greenwald
Righteous anger over Iran raises some deep confusion about the meaning of technical terms.
Debate over Afghanistan is deja vu all over again
Gabriel Winant
Joe Lieberman hates to say it, but Afghanistan is just like Nazi Germany
David Brooks: our nation’s premier expert warrior
Glenn Greenwald
The NYT columnist's shameful war record should discredit him for life. Why does the opposite happen?
Glenn Beck rises again
Alexander Zaitchik
Getting clean, getting Mormon, getting talk radio -- and going to Yale, with the help of Joe Lieberman. Part 3 of 3
Fighting against ourselves in Afghanistan
Ann Jones
The U.S. trains forces in Afghanistan that then go to work for the Taliban
Once again, Americans are smarter than the media
Joan Walsh
While pundits warn that Obama's TV tour left him "overexposed," polls show Americans like seeing their president
Clinton: The butt of Limbaugh’s bad joke
Tracy Clark-Flory
The radio host turns his bum-obsession to the secretary of state
It takes girls to raise a village
Tracy Clark-Flory
Developing countries lose billions each year by ignoring girls' potential, a report says
U.S. heading for failure in Afghanistan?
Alex Koppelman
The top commander in the country says he needs more forces, and fast -- the leak puts the administration in a bind
Detainee abuse continues at Bagram
Matthias Gebauer, Britta Sandberg, John Goetz
Afghanistan's Bagram prison may be worse than Guantanamo. Why does President Obama tolerate it?
Our war-loving Foreign Policy Community hasn’t gone anywhere
Glenn Greenwald
The belief that Iraq taught America's "experts" a lesson about anything is wrong.
What to talk about instead of talking about race
Darren Hutchinson
The media would rather debate whether right-wing Obama critics are racist than rebut their lies about his policies
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