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GOP Sen. Mark Kirk comes unhinged over Iran agreement, name-checks Hitler
Luke Brinker
The Republican goes full wingnut after framework for an historic nuclear deal is announced
The American empire is over: Afghanistan, China and our new bystander status
Dilip Hiro
After a decade plus of war, the U.S. can only watch as China brokers Afghan peace. Here's where we went so wrong
The right’s Bergdahl calamity: How Bill O’Reilly & Rush Limbaugh discard America’s norms
Heather Digby Parton
Once upon a time, prisoners of war weren't treated like terrorists, and people got their day in court. That's over
Conservatives’ history problem: Why they’re doomed by their own “Golden Age”
Michael Lind
Compare the heydays of progressives and conservatives -- and it's clear which one fared better for Americans
America is still fighting the Cold War: Why its military “strategy” is hopeless
William Hartung
Current levels of Pentagon spending simply aren't sustainable. The time is now to abandon our global war on terror
The right’s hot Bergdahl rage: Why a former prisoner drives conservatives batty
Elias Isquith
This week's news of the former POW's charges inspired a future history lesson on the far right's violent tendencies
Fox News would have hated Ronald Reagan: These conservative icons would be RINOs to the party of Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton
Alex Henderson
The wingnuts rule the party, and they're even wackier than pols who seemed like far-right crazies not that long ago
Jesus would hate you all — and you didn’t build that: The truth about the ultra-rich and their New York Times apologists
Paul Rosenberg
Conservatives are fighting a war on poverty, which really means a war on poor people -- and a defense of the rich
Bowe Bergdahl will be charged with desertion and misbehavior, official says
Lolita C. Baldor
Army sergeant held captive in Afghanistan for five years set to be court martialed
America’s ISIS next door: Mexico, billion-dollar cartels and the colossal failure of the war on drugs
Rebecca Gordon
They behead people by the hundreds. And like ISIL, Mexican gangs are flourishing as a result of failed U.S. policy
“Crack cocaine for the Pentagon”: Meet the secret slush fund that’s getting hawks high
David Dayen
While the right cuts tons of basic services, here's the secret slush fund the military doesn't want you to discover
John Oliver’s British accent is breaking YouTube’s closed captioning, apparently
Colin Gorenstein
Is it really that hard to understand, though?
ISIS: Making sense of the spectacular brutality and viral engagement fueling the new state of terror
Laura Miller
Experts explain how botched American policies helped create a movement that revolutionized Islamist extremism
It’s not unpatriotic to say the Pledge in Arabic
Mary Elizabeth Williams
A controversy erupts over a school's Foreign Language Week
Laura Ingraham’s vile “skinhead” analogy: Saying the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic is just like being a neo-Nazi
Joanna Rothkopf
"Most people who love this country love it enough to speak the language"
Thomas Friedman asks if US should arm ISIS to fix problems created by policies he supported
Luke Brinker
When it comes to what the US should do in the Middle East, it's a matter of Friedman vs. Friedman
American patriotism is for suckers: Dwight Eisenhower, George W. Bush and the end of Manifest Destiny
Nan Levinson
Ike famously warned us about our military-industrial complex. Sixty years later, his nightmare is coming true
“Criminal mutiny”: Bill Maher and Sean Penn slam Republicans for Iran letter
Joanna Rothkopf
Arianna Huffington, Sharyl Attkisson and Tom Rogan also appeared on Friday's "Real Time with Bill Maher"
“A new degree of pettiness”: Why is the U.S. really sanctioning Venezuela?
Marcy Wheeler
While the administration claims Venezuela poses a dire threat to our security, the facts show a different reality
GOP’s “Iran letter” excuse: We were just being “cheeky”
Jim Newell
Nothing's funnier than trying to blow up high-stakes multilateral diplomatic talks during crunch time!
America’s broken brain trust: Why public intellectuals are hastening our empire’s demise
Andrew Bacevich
Give the op-eds and Sunday shows to high school social studies teachers. America's chattering class is useless
“Decker”: Adult Swim’s delightfully lowbrow, low-budget “American Sniper” parody returns
Gavin Tomson
The deliberately cheap-looking show lampoons the glorification of war by pushing it to ridiculous extremes
2016’s untold story: How the election could bring a new wave of progressive warriors
Luke Brinker
While the presidential contest consumes much of our attention, down-ballot races could power a liberal revival
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