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TPM: “Obama Mimics Bush on State Secrets”
Glenn Greenwald
The controversy over Obama's embrace of radical Bush/Cheney secrecy powers is clearly growing.
Seth Rogen’s date (rape) movie
Tracy Clark-Flory
What is it called when a guy sleeps with a passed-out drunk girl? Comedy, apparently!
Fox managing editor wonders when Obama will go to church
Alex Koppelman
Fox News' Bill Sammon stays on top of a big story: The president's failure to attend Sunday services.
Bow-ow-ow: Obama’s painful missteps
Camille Paglia
Let the new president grow into the job -- but he'd better do it fast! Plus: Readers ask about everything from talk radio, morality and Mary McCarthy, to that big movie about a sinking ship.
Why Wall Street needs a Napoleon to shake it up
Andrew Leonard
Or, how "The Count of Monte Cristo" informs our understanding of the financial crisis.
Poor Sarah Palin
Alex Koppelman
Along with other political luminaries like Jessica Simpson and Kim Kardashian, the Alaska governor is targeted in Eminem's latest music video.
Getting negative on sex positivity
Lily Bixler
A blogger says that the feminist movement isn't "outrageous," but totally bor-ing.
Salon Radio: Binyam Mohamed lawyer Clive Stafford Smith
Glenn Greenwald
A Guantanamo lawyer is blocked from communicating with Obama about his client's torture, and then threatened with prosecution for complaining.
Obama makes surprise visit to Iraq
Alex Koppelman
Closing out his big foreign tour, the president made an unannounced stop in the country Tuesday.
Faux outrage at Fox News
Joan Walsh
While Obama wins over Europe, Hannity, Rove and friends call him anti-American.
Do you remember the great oil shock of 2008?
Andrew Leonard
New research aims to answer an enormously important question: Did the laws of supply and demand cause energy costs to surge, or was it something more nefarious?
Enough about the royal iPod already
Alex Koppelman
The obsession with the very minor details of diplomatic protocol has gone way overboard.
Stop the Internet, I want to get off!
Rebecca Traister
Constant e-mailing, Web surfing and online games were melting my brain. Then I found something that might actually save me from myself.
The schizophrenic Obama
Andrew Leonard
Is the president selling out the working man, or waging class warfare on behalf of the proletariat? Because surely he can't be doing both at the same time?
Dear blog commenters: Why do you hate America?
Alex Koppelman
In the Washington Times, Andrew Breitbart says liberals are mounting a Soviet-style disinformation campaign -- in the comment sections of conservative blogs.
Are some girls wired for anorexia?
Kate Harding
Quit blaming controlling mothers! A new study finds that brain development may make certain kids especially vulnerable to the eating disorder.
I’m a cheater with no impulse control!
Cary Tennis
I feel terrible when I stray, but I can't seem to stop!
If we nationalize health care, more celebrities will die!
Alex Koppelman
Conservatives opposed to health care reform say Natasha Richardson's death was due in part to Canada's system.
Obama’s Afghanistan strategy gets warm reception
Alex Koppelman
So far, most reactions to the president's announcement have been positive -- even Bill Kristol likes it.
Former McCain staffers angry over Palin prayer remark
Alex Koppelman
Aides who traveled with the Alaska governor during the fall campaign are upset after Palin said recently she hadn't wanted to pray with any of them.
An online chat with the president
Alex Koppelman
President Obama is holding a different kind of town hall Thursday morning -- instead of traveling to a swing state, he's going on the Web.
Enough with Meghan McCain already!
Nancy Goldstein
Which part of the young Republican's schtick is "progressive"?
Obama’s smooth call
Thomas Schaller
Compton's race question masked the fact that Obama called on an Ebony reporter.
The Merchants of Wall Street
Andrew Leonard
400 years before credit default swaps strode the earth, Shakespeare nailed the financial crisis.
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