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Osama bin Laden got what he wanted: 9/11 and the birth of the national security state
Tom Engelhardt
Since the World Trade Center bombings, our democracy has come undone. The terrorists accomplished their mission
What Hillary Clinton wants you to forget: Her disastrous record as a war hawk
Jack Mirkinson
Clinton gave her support to the Iran deal yesterday, but she also talked like someone ready to start dropping bombs
The image that shocked our collective conscience: A child refugee’s death & the West’s moral responsibility
Jack Mirkinson
It shouldn't have taken the drowning of child to lay bare the depth of the refugee crisis. For too many, it did
Tom Cotton’s endless war: What his ongoing crusade against the Iran deal says about the GOP
Gary Legum
Visiting Israel this week, the freshman senator showed he'll take politics beyond the water's edge -- again
A predictable warmonger: Dick Cheney name-checks Hitler & launches credibility-free attack on Iran deal
Simon Maloy
Dick and Liz Cheney oppose diplomacy with Iran because of "American Exceptionalism," Hitler, Nazis, blah blah blah
Getting the story meant risking sexual assault — I did it anyway
Tara Isabella Burton
It was foolhardy of me to get into a stranger's car, knowing what would happen. So why did I go?
A burka in a Christian town: How Fox News and right-wing media turned a lesson in tolerance into an excuse for hate
Linda K. Wertheimer
A teacher's "dress-up" exercise divided a Texas town. Then Fox News and WorldNetDaily arrived to make it worse
It can definitely happen here: Trump’s proto-fascist vision of America and Europe’s wrenching migrant crisis
Andrew O'Hehir
Trump's Jorge Ramos comedy was darker than it looked -- and Europe's deepening crisis is closer than we think
What some of the richest people in America say about the poor when they think no one is listening
Tana Ganeva
A Facebook page for tony Manhattan residents is a cesspool of racist vitriol and complaints about the homeless
Ken Burns: Donald Trump’s birtherism — a “politer way of saying the ‘N-word'” — proves America isn’t remotely “post-racial”
Scott Eric Kaufman
He also disappointed Confederate flag apologists, listing the Civil War's 3 causes as "slavery, slavery, slavery"
Noam Chomsky: America is the gravest danger to world peace
Noam Chomsky
The famous scholar and political activist talks Iran, the Middle East and the bellicosity of the Republican Party
Thomas Jefferson’s urgent lesson for America: The less force we wield, the more powerful we become
William J. Astore
The U.S. military hasn't had a meaningful victory since 1945. We'd be wise to heed the words of our founding father
The CIA’s grotesque secret: How it’s partnering with human rights abusers — and sparking blowback
Sarah Margon
Shadowy intelligence operations show need for real accountability. Luckily, there's a model to achieve just that
Huckabee, Trump and the “life matters” lie: Every “life is precious” — except a woman’s or a girl’s
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Huckabee won't support abortion for 11-year-old rape victims—and Trump thinks women must be on death's door first
“If we did not protest, no one would punish those men”: A brutal murder, a sham trial, and justice denied in Kabul
Elizabeth Schaeffer Brown, Jason Brooks Brown
After the killing of Farakhunda, women marched to the Afghan Supreme Court. Now, "We only feel secure in our homes"
Donald Trump’s biggest crime is his honesty: How he exposes the sickening rot at the core of the GOP
Patrick L. Smith
Republicans have spent decades dressing up fear as courage, pretending at seriousness while advancing hysteria
America welcomes permanent war: Vietnam and the demise of the anti-war movement
Tom Engelhardt
A generation ago, protests helped bring an end to an unjust war. Now we turn a blind eye to extrajudicial murder
“Sometimes the kid dies, sometimes the cop dies”: The insane rationalizations of America’s militarized police
Heather Digby Parton
One year after Ferguson, and with cops cracking down yet again, it is shocking how little has changed
America occupies the planet: The grim realities of our endless War on Terror
Chalmers Johnson
The Pentagon owns or rents over 700 bases in 130 countries -- and that doesn't include the *6,000* we have at home
The austerity crisis America ignores: Puerto Rico is having its Greek moment—but nobody seems to care
Robert Hennelly
Puerto Rico faces default, and its creditors are demanding crippling austerity. Obama must step in
How to build a nuclear bomb: We’ve demonized books, but are we any safer?
Ann Larabee
Can we stop explosives guides from landing in violent hands? And if so, at what cost to free expression?
America’s white masculinity complex and the myth of the “senseless” mass shooting
Nico Lang
The media pegs men like John Russell Houser as "killers without a cause." The truth is more unnerving
Delusions of a madman: Lindsey Graham proclaims he’s already won his war with Iran
Simon Maloy
Future president Lindsey Graham declares victory in the war with Iran he's probably (definitely) going to start
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