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Let’s talk about tasers
America's torture problem is bigger than waterboarding or Gitmo or the CIA
Tortured logic
Attorney General Holder is going to prosecute those who tortured -- but only if they didn't do it right
Blog News
Glenn Greenwald
We've arranged a team of guest-bloggers that will provide much provocative and fulfilling commentary.
Obama’s press conference: Reviews are in
Vincent Rossmeier
"Cerebral," "small," "impressive," "too tidy" -- we survey the pundits
The Holder trial balloon: Abu Ghraib redux
Glenn Greenwald
Arguably, prosecuting low-level torturers while shielding powerful policy makers would be worse than doing nothing.
What if the Uighurs were Christian rather than Muslim?
Glenn Greenwald
Violent clashes in China underscore an ugly reality of the War on Terror.
Obama contemplates Executive Order for detention without charges
Glenn Greenwald
TPM calls it "the latest installment in the Obama administration's tendency to mimic the Bushies" in War on Terror.
A right-wing writer on how to be a real man
Glenn Greenwald
The mentality behind our wars and related policies is as grotesque and twisted as ever.
Facts and myths about Obama’s preventive detention proposal
Glenn Greenwald
Is a system of indefinite detention with no charges a standard or radical idea?
Wild Dick Cheney at the Neocon Corral
Joan Walsh
The way the media cover the ex-veep, you'd never know his torture views were rejected by his colleagues and party
Obama’s civil liberties speech
Glenn Greenwald
As usual, Obama effectively defended various ideals while advocating policies that contradict them
Playing the Pelosi card
Gene Lyons
What? CIA operatives concealed the truth about torture from a San Francisco liberal? No!
The day the bloggers won
Eric Boehlert
With no traditional-media allies or lobbying money, the netroots was able to alter the debate about wiretapping in the 2008 campaign. Leading the charge: Salon's Glenn Greenwald.
Salon Radio: Eric Boehlert’s new book about political blogs
Glenn Greenwald
How has the advent of blogs changed politics and journalism?
Obama’s kinder, gentler military commissions
Glenn Greenwald
Bush critics vehemently objected to the idea of commissions generally. Will they continue to do so now that Obama supports them?
The massive expansion of America’s “Hard Left”
Glenn Greenwald
Establishment pundits depict every idea they dislike as "partisan" because that's the only way they can understand the world.
The NYT’s definition of blinding American exceptionalism
Glenn Greenwald
How we talk about the actions of other countries reveals the extent to which we exempt ourselves from our ostensible standards.
SCOTUS pick politics: Bring the crazy!
Joan Walsh
White men are a little overanxious about Obama's next move, as I experienced on "Hardball."
Obama’s 100-day report card
Mark Schone, Vincent Rossmeier, Gabriel Winant
Bloggers, activists, economists and writers grade the president's performance so far. Featuring Sen. Russ Feingold, Dan Savage, Markos, Michael Pollan, Gloria Feldt and many others.
David Broder and media culpability for Bush crimes
Glenn Greenwald
Unanimous opposition among establishment journalists to investigations is unsurprising given their role in what happened.
Meet the Press and the media’s distortions of the prosecutions debate
Glenn Greenwald
It's conventional Beltway wisdom that most Americans oppose investigations, and that wisdom is completely wrong.
An emerging progressive consensus on Obama’s executive power and secrecy abuses
Glenn Greenwald
The harshest denunciations of the Obama DOJ are coming from those who progressives held up as the most reliable and trustworthy authorities.
Comparing the U.S. to Russia and Argentina
Glenn Greenwald
A long-time official with Salomon and the IMF warns that we are replicating the same dynamic that caused collapse in other countries.
Howard Kurtz: government and media need a “cease-fire” now and then
Glenn Greenwald
The "media critic" of The Washington Post and CNN actually believes that the press and politicians are deeply adversarial.
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