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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
Stop calling them “Vanilla ISIS”: Mocking the Bundys and Oregon extremists pretends that violence isn’t an American tradition
Arthur Chu
The Bundys should not be belittled or dismissed. Violent white men with guns are as American as apple pie
A year of war: 10 destructive armed conflicts the U.S. fueled in 2015, explained
Ben Norton
A look at the role of the U.S. in a dismal year marked by war and violence
Donald Trump has made us all a**holes: How 2016 has coarsened us all into Fox News jerks
Sophia A. McClennen
Trump is polarizing, yes, but the real problem is that he's making us all obnoxious. Don't let the terrorist win
The New Wave of Islamophobia: Being Sikh or Muslim in the age of Donald Trump
Amardeep Singh
Politicians like Trump have emboldened those hostile toward minorities — we need real leaders to confront it
Our George Orwell/Noam Chomsky paradox: Let’s decipher the doublethink media and government peddles about U.S. foreign policy
Dana E. Abizaid
Our policies and actions routinely go against our oft-stated ideals. Here's how to examine the lies and spin
“Delusional and reflexive invocations of American exceptionalism”: What the GOP field won’t admit about our history may make everything worse
Robin Lindley
By continuing to deny the real lessons and history of Vietnam and Iraq, we are set up to repeat tragedies again
Hillary Clinton is more right wing than you think: For progressives, a vote for her over Bernie Sanders is a waste
H.A. Goodman
On many contentious issues, Hillary Clinton has acted more like a Republican than a progressive
America’s secret war on ISIL: The African military operation you’ll never hear about
Nick Turse
The U.S. Air Force recently "neutralized" 69 enemy combatants -- and has taken meticulous steps to cover its tracks
Is Hillary Clinton a neoconservative hawk? What Iraq and Libya decisions tell us about her foreign policy
Paul Rosenberg
Hillary got Iraq vote wrong, and Libya and Syria too. If she were setting the policies, what would they look like?
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