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I have had it with cynical faux-realists attacking Bernie Sanders idealists
Cat J. Zavis
It's timid and fearful to limit ourselves to incremental change -- and it only makes the powerful more powerful
Donald Trump’s surreal anti-Fox spectacle: Well that was certainly… weird?
Gary Legum
Trump made good on his threat to Boycott last night's GOP debate. Here's how it turned out
Endless war will destroy us all: The U.S. military is the imperial hammer that sees every problem as a nail
Ben Norton
A new war in Libya would be just as disastrous, and won't sate the military-industrial complex's ravenous appetite
6 national security questions we should be asking our presidential candidates
Andrew J. Bacevich
How many nuclear weapons does America actually need? And why are we still fighting a fruitless War on Terror?
My heartbreaking journey to Gitmo: A widow, a military prison & the enigma of human compassion
Falguni A. Sheth
While reporting on abuses at Gitmo, I got the worst news of my life. Then I was shown kindness that others were not
The atrocities will continue: No matter who wins the presidency, the Middle East loses
Tom Engelhardt
Hillary, Trump, it makes no substantive difference. America has already committed itself to a doomed War on Terror
The Iraq War’s tragic epilogue: Why America will never truly be able to leave
Nick Turse
Punishing airstrikes have driven ISIL forces back -- for now -- but there may not be an Iraqi state left to protect
Sarah Palin’s delusional blame game: Obama isn’t responsible for her son’s domestic violence charge
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Palin implies that her son Track, arrested for assaulting his girlfriend this week, has PTSD from combat
Military veterans take Sarah Palin to task for blaming son’s domestic violence arrest on PTSD
Sophia Tesfaye
"Underneath her nonsense lies a very dangerous allegation — that all veterans are ticking time bombs"
Michael Moore: Dear President Obama, please visit Flint
Michael Moore
"The people of Flint are crying out to you for help." An open letter to the president ahead of his trip to Detroit
Debunking the case against Sanders: Bernie’s liberal critics, like Jonathan Chait, resort to fatalism and blind trust in the status quo
Ben Norton
The attacks centrist pundits lob at Sanders are just a thinly disguised defense of the existing power structure
Bernie Sanders is no socialist: Socialism is his brand, but he’s a Democrat in every way but name
Harry Jaffe
I wrote Bernie's biography so I know: On capitalism, on Israel, on foreign policy, on Nader, he's quite traditional
The Pentagon is out of ideas: America’s ISIS strategy is doomed from the start
David Vine
Thirty-six years into the great base build up across the Middle East, we're still waiting for tangible results
Requiem for a middleweight: Barack Obama’s witty, eloquent and upbeat speech — about failure
Andrew O'Hehir
Obama's oddly sunny SOTU took on the GOP blowhards and bigots -- but under the rhetoric lay an admission of failure
The harsh truth about El Chapo’s arrest: Everything is still horrible, no matter what
Daniel Denvir
As long as the disastrous War on Drugs persists, disaster will always follow in its wake
Emails expose close ties between Hillary Clinton and accused war criminal Henry Kissinger
Ben Norton, Jared Flanery
Kissinger met regularly with Secretary Clinton, and applauded her hawkish foreign policy in a handwritten message
Bloodshed in Yemen continues: 3rd Doctors Without Borders hospital bombed in Saudi-led, U.S.-backed war
Ben Norton
The attack comes after the U.S.-armed coalition bombed weddings, civilian neighborhoods, refugee camps and more
America has grown cowardly: ISIS is no threat to our existence whatsoever
Tom Engelhardt
ISIL is no joke, but its potential for destruction pales in comparison to the danger once posed by the Soviet Union
Hubris takes them all down: This is why every president makes the same dumb mistakes
Mike Lofgren
We fight on both sides of wars. We think we can identify good terrorists and moderate rebels. We are always wrong
R.I.P, the list pop song: Missing the lost art of rock ‘n’ roll lyrical overload
Marc Spitz
From The Nails' "88 Lines About 44 Women" to R.E.M.'s big hit, they don't write them like this anymore
He cries for Americans alone: Our wars and violence destroy families — those kids deserve Obama’s tears too
Ben Norton
The U.S. is responsible for countless deaths around the world, yet the president doesn't weep for those victims
He’s made the Middle East worse: Let’s be honest, Obama bears as much responsibility for this mess as predecessors who shaped them
Patrick L. Smith
Decades of poorly concocted policies with Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and others haunt us -- and worsen every day
Keep your man-child antiheroes: The new crush-worthy guy is the quietly competent, grown-up man
Paula Young Lee
There's a bit of wishful thinking in these pop culture sensations, too—that white men can calmly fight a good fight
Saudi Arabia funds and exports Islamic extremism: The truth behind the toxic U.S. relationship with the theocratic monarchy
Ben Norton
The little-told history of the U.S.-Saudi "special relationship" is a story of blood, oil & violent fundamentalism
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