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A rocky first few weeks
Camille Paglia
Obama sputters out of the gate -- but don't fear yet. Plus: Buxom foodies, frocks for the ages, and the eternal appeal of Mary McCarthy and Justin Timberlake.
Blue Dog Shuler: Democratic leaders aren’t being bipartisan
Alex Koppelman
North Carolina Rep. Heath Shuler, who voted against the stimulus, says Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi haven't listened to the bill's opponents.
Republicans take a swing at Obama
Vincent Rossmeier
The latest message from the House GOP: "What happened to bipartisanship?"
Moving the center to the left
David Sirota
Just as Republican congressmen moved President Bush to the right, so Washington's Democrats are now pushing Obama to the left.
Richard Cohen fulfills the role of the American journalist
Glenn Greenwald
Nobody argues more enthusiastically for concealment of government secrets and protection of high-level lawbreakers than our country's media stars.
S.F. liberals to host new Gitmo on Alcatraz?
Alex Koppelman
Republicans, fighting President Obama's order to shutter the prison, are using one suggestion of a substitute location to needle Democrats.
Hoyer: Obama unlikely to investigate torture
Christopher M. Matthews
The House majority leader tells Salon he doesn't think the new administration will engage in much review of its predecessor's actions.
Hillary is back
Rebecca Traister
At the Emily's List gala, Hillary Clinton is her old feminist self once again -- only better.
RNC candidate Dawson: I’ll be Dems’ “worst nightmare”
Alex Koppelman
South Carolina GOP chairman Katon Dawson says he'll "expose" Democrats "for what they're doing to the American public."
Gaza invasion: Powered by the U.S.
Robert Bryce
Taxpayers are spending over $1 billion to send refined fuel to the Israeli military -- at a time when Israel doesn't need it and America does.
Establishment Washington unifies against prosecutions
Glenn Greenwald
What explains the virtual unanimity among political and media elites that Bush officials should be protected from any accountability for crimes they committed?
Conservative Kudlow dishes on Obama dinner
Alex Koppelman
Though the meeting was off the record, the CNBC host offered details of his discussions with the president-elect, and sounded very impressed.
Obama’s early stumbles
Camille Paglia
Readers ask, Camille dishes: On Democratic woes, the Weather Underground, Kanye West, Freud, alleged gay genes and "the long sleep."
America then and now
Glenn Greenwald
It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.
Don’t rile the Gators, Nancy Pelosi!
Andrew Leonard
A Florida Republican asks the speaker to postpone some congressional votes so he can go to the college football championship game.
The DOJ pursues the “real criminal” in the NSA spying scandal
Glenn Greenwald
While the high-level lawbreakers are protected from consequences by our political class, only the courageous whistle-blower is subject to criminal prosecution.
Obama pitches stimulus plan
Salon Staff
Back from vacation in Hawaii, the president-elect sells spending package.
The economy crumbled
Andrew Leonard
It was the worst of times for ordinary Americans. And even worse times for deregulators and supply-siders. The bright side? Their party is over.
More oddities in the U.S. “debate” over Israel/Gaza
Glenn Greenwald
Even for those insisting that Israel's attack on Gaza is both wise and just, what possible interest does the U.S. have in involving itself so directly in this dispute?
Another brutal year for liberty
Glenn Greenwald
The good news is that it's clear what the Obama administration must do to end the decade-long war on the Constitution.
George Washington’s warnings and U.S. policy towards Israel
Glenn Greenwald
Americans overwhelmingly want the U.S. to take no sides in the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Why is that view not just disregarded, but made into a taboo?
Marty Peretz and the American political consensus on Israel
Glenn Greenwald
The New Republic Editor-in-Chief expresses anti-Arab hatred in the starkest terms possible, but are his policy views towards Israel any different from the standard American position?
Cheney says top congressional Democrats complicit in spying
Glenn Greenwald
The vice president claims key Democrats were briefed in detail about the NSA program, actively approved of it and urged that it be kept secret.
Solis gets Labor nod
Thomas Schaller
The California congresswoman adds diversity to cabinet, pleases labor groups.
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