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The 180-degree reversal of Obama’s State Secrets position
Glenn Greenwald
Democrats long objected to exactly the power that the Obama DOJ yesterday expressly advocated be vested in the new president.
Obama’s Reagan problem
Gary Kamiya
Why did the president make the mistake of thinking he could work with the GOP? His mealy-mouthed support for the Gipper provides a clue.
Obama holds first press conference
Alex Koppelman
The prime time event, intended to bolster public support for the stimulus, offered lots of long answers and few surprises.
Obama fails his first test on civil liberties and accountability — resoundingly and disgracefully
Glenn Greenwald
The Obama DOJ today embraced one of the most abused Bush weapons -- the "state secrets" privilege -- in order to block torture and rendition victims from their day in court.
Israel’s elections and U.S. policy
Glenn Greenwald
Polls show that Israel is likely to elect a right-wing government with an uber-nationalist component. What implications should that have for U.S. policy?
Sex with the Obamas
Tracy Clark-Flory
Women are reportedly fantasizing about the first couple's hot and steamy love life.
Republicans take a swing at Obama
Vincent Rossmeier
The latest message from the House GOP: "What happened to bipartisanship?"
Great achievements in American socialism
Mark Schone
A slide show of two dozen excellent things the federal government bought with your money.
Michael Phelps: Puppy torturer!
Joe Conason
Come on, people, all he did was smoke some weed, like Bill Gates, Barack Obama and countless other overachievers.
Brother, can you spare a bonus?
Mike Madden
Wall Street whines as Obama announces new bailout rules that cap executive pay at $500,000.
Why the Democrats don’t need evangelicals
Vincent Rossmeier
The 2008 election was starkly divided between voters in the most religious states and those in the least, but Barack Obama won anyway.
Republican sound and fury, signifying (almost) nothing
Mike Madden
Senate Republicans trash an economic stimulus bill that many of them will probably vote for very soon.
The “defense cut” falsehood from The Washington Post and Robert Kagan
Glenn Greenwald
Barack Obama proposes to spend $40 billion more on defense spending this year than was spent last year. Why is he being attacked for "cutting the defense budget"?
The leaderless GOP
Joan Walsh
Limbaugh and Palin are in charge, and there's nothing Michael Steele or Mitch McConnell can do about it.
Just how bad off is the Republican Party?
Thomas Schaller
Republicans know what they're against: Barack Obama. They're still figuring out what they're for.
Watching Bill Clinton work his magic at Davos
Joe Conason
His rock-star status among world leaders, at a time when America's reputation is in tatters, shows the former president is a major asset to Barack Obama.
The Daschles: feeding at the Beltway trough
Glenn Greenwald
Even for the most cynical observer of Washington sleaze, Tom and Linda Daschle's exploits are quite striking.
Salon Radio: ACLU’s Ben Wizner on immediate Obama tests
Glenn Greenwald
On Feb. 9, in a lawsuit brought by victims of "rendition," the Obama DOJ must either embrace or reject the Bush administration's reliance on the "state secrets" privilege. What will they do?
“The comeback starts now!”
Mike Madden
Welcome to the Republican National Committee's winter meeting -- and the GOP's alternate reality, where happy days are nearly here again.
Welcome to Elsewhere, USA
Katharine Mieszkowski
We e-mail, we text, we Facebook, we blog. Are we more productive today or just more anxious?
Battling Dick Armey
Joan Walsh
The man famous for calling Barney Frank "Barney Fag" says he'd never marry me. Am I a lucky woman, or what?
Paul Krugman unfairly slaps Obama around
Andrew Leonard
Citing House Republican intransigency on the stimulus plan, the economist says the White House should never have made any concessions at all. But what about the Senate?
Blowing away King Coal
Jeff Biggers
Can a scrawny young wind-power activist topple the biggest, dirtiest industry in West Virginia?
Democrats: The party of business
Joan Walsh
Obama shows his skill at stimulus politics, addressing an admiring crowd of CEOs while the GOP postures and makes itself increasingly irrelevant
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