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Salon Radio: Lanny Davis on Accountability Now and primary challenges
Glenn Greenwald
The former Clinton aide and close Lieberman ally defends his critique of primary challenges as a means to keep incumbents accountable.
We’re really leaving Iraq
Juan Cole
Some Iraq war critics are fretting about Obama's speech on Friday, and his plan to stay a little longer. But here's why there's no reason for alarm.
Karzai won’t leave
Matthias Gebauer, Shoib Najafizada
Afghan President Hamid Karzai discovered the importance of adhering to his country's constitution at an awfully convenient political moment.
Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican Party
Thomas Schaller
The conservative radio host loves to talk about himself -- and the GOP base loves to listen, as the rapt throng at CPAC Saturday proved. That makes party bosses nervous.
Who’s the most liberal of them all?
Vincent Rossmeier
The National Journal releases its annual ranking of the most liberal and conservative congressmen -- but is it really accurate?
At CPAC, Obama is a Commie foreigner
Alex Koppelman
When one speaker at the conservative conference suggested that the president wasn't born in the U.S., the audience erupted.
The mother of all budgets
Andrew Leonard
The Obama administration's spending blueprint represents the most ambitious government agenda in at least a generation. Buckle your seatbelts -- Washington is about to go nuts.
Karl Rove: Self-deluded or consciously dishonest?
Glenn Greenwald
What mental state allows someone to condemn the very tactics which, as everyone knows, they pioneered and spent years exploiting?
Why a war crimes fact-finding commission could uniquely enable prosecutions
Glenn Greenwald
Senate Democrats insist that the investigations they seek are not intended to spawn prosecutions. But they may not be able to control that.
Bowing down to the Taliban
Susanne Koelbl
Pakistan is capitulating to the Taliban in the Swat Valley, where the Islamists plan to introduce Sharia law.
The “Americans want bipartisanship” myth
Glenn Greenwald
The last two elections and the consensus of polling data demonstrate that what Americans actually want is a significant departure from the rule by Republicans and their policies.
The Citigroup Treasury Kabuki dance
Salon Staff
Both sides must know the end game is nationalization. Right now, they're just trying to make an ugly business look pretty.
Ryan Lizza’s People Magazine love letter to Rahm Emanuel
Glenn Greenwald
The competition to see who will be the Bob Woodward of the Obama administration heats up.
The military’s expanding waistline
Pratap Chatterjee
The U.S. military has become so dependent on outside contractors like KBR that President Obama couldn't sever ties with these corporations even if he wanted to.
Reform healthcare — and leave Social Security alone
Joe Conason
During his fiscal responsibility summit, President Obama must not cave in to the privatizers and slashers.
Fox News “war games” the coming civil war
Glenn Greenwald
With Obama in office for four weeks, Fox convenes military and intelligence officials to analyze -- and call for -- violent upheaval against the tyrannical federal government.
Past the point of no return
David Sirota
With unemployment rising, a healthcare crisis and the planet on the brink of incineration, the stimulus bill is only the first step in fixing the nation's problems.
Wolff: Murdoch probably “livid” over Post chimp cartoon
Alex Koppelman
A biographer of the News Corp. head, who owns the New York Post, thinks the controversial image was deliberately racist, and won't go over well at company headquarters.
Only losers get the foreclosure blues
Andrew Leonard
Chicago traders applaud while a CNBC stock analyst rants about the unfairness of Obama's housing plan. Is this a great country, or what?
Another conservative crusade against a phantom enemy
Alex Koppelman
Forget the Fairness Doctrine -- what about the Freedom of Choice Act that pro-abortion liberals will pass any day now?
Charlie Savage on Obama’s embrace of Bush/Cheney “terrorism policies”
Glenn Greenwald
Is it too early to sound the alarm bells that Obama is moving much faster and more aggressively than many expected to maintain key Bush/Cheney powers?
Obama signs stimulus
Alex Koppelman
The president traveled to a newly pivotal swing state Tuesday in order to celebrate a big political victory.
America’s imperial police force
William Astore
How did the American military become the French Foreign Legion?
Your DNA is a snitch
Peter Dizikes
Today's simple genetic tests can reveal your private nature. Just don't expect it to stay secret.
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