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A resident spreads his arms in front of riot police and tanks moving into the Shiite Muslim village of Malkiya, Bahrain, southwest of Manama, on Sunday, March 20, 2011.Bahraini authorities are trying to crush a revolt by the nation's majority Shiites for greater political freedoms. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states have sent forces to help Bahrain's Sunni dynasty. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (Associated Press)

DC law firm defends Bahrain on human rights crackdown

Justin Elliott
A top law firm will be paid $550 per hour to help Bahrain respond to allegations it fired trade unionists en masse
FILE - In this May 31, 2011 file photo, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin walks to the door of Trump Tower for a scheduled meeting with Donald Trump in New York. Thousands of Palin's emails from her first two years as governor are being released by the state of Alaska, a disclosure that has taken on national prominence as she flirts with a run for the presidency. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File) (AP)

AMC theaters will show Sarah Palin movie

Emma Mustich
"The Undefeated" will open next month -- and members of the public can vote for screening locations
FILE- In this Feb. 17, 2011 photo, Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin answers questions at a public appearance at a Long Island Association (LIA) meeting and luncheon in Woodbury, N.Y. Palin is scheduled for a court hearing on her request to extend a restraining order against 19-year-old Shawn Christy of McAdoo, Pa., accused of stalking the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, her family and friends. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, file) (AP)

Revelations from the Sarah Palin emails

Salon Staff
Highlights from this afternoon's coverage of today's 24,199-page release
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a news conference at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, June 9, 2011, following the Third Contact Group Meeting on Libya. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool) (AP)

Hillary as World Bank leader?

Natasha Lennard
Spokespeople deny rumors that Clinton will seek organization's presidency. We look at how the top job works
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Newt Gingrich attends the 51st Washington Conference with Laffer Associates in Washington May 13, 2011. Former House Speaker Gingrich declared his 2012 candidacy on Wednesday. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS HEADSHOT) (© Jason Reed / Reuters)

The richly earned humiliation of Newt Gingrich

Steve Kornacki
No one has ever endured such a terrible first month as a presidential candidate -- nor deserved to more
Mildred Loving on Jan. 26, 1965

Gay marriage and Loving v. Virginia

Joan Walsh
An odd couple makes a moving case that Prop. 8, like the ban on interracial marriage, must be overturned
(© Darren Hauck / Reuters)

Public sector pension funds: Not dead yet

Andrew Leonard
A new report suggests government union benefits won't be bankrupting states, after all
Troops of Pakistan army seen at Shaltalo in the Upper Dir region of Pakistan on Monday, June 6, 2011. Pakistani security forces had battles with militants in the Pakistani border town of Shaltalo along the Afghanistan border. Pakistani helicopters and artillery forced back militants who crossed over from Afghanistan and triggered battles that have killed many people, an official said. (AP Photo/Dilawar Jan) (AP)

Pakistan army chief says US aid should be diverted

Associated Press
General said U.S. aid meant for the military's fight against Islamist militants should go to ordinary people
FILE - In this May 16, 2011 file photo, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks during the Kiwanis Club luncheon in Dubuque, Iowa. For Republicans who once supported combating global warming, the race for the presidency is already getting hot. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) (AP)

Muslim supporter to Newt: Knock it off

Justin Elliott
Gingrich confronted over his statements about Shariah law and the "ground zero mosque"
Armed Yemeni tribesmen stand on the back of a vehicle in Taiz, Yemen, Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Hundreds of armed tribesmen have taken control of part of Yemen's second-largest city, Taiz, security officials said Wednesday. The advance on Taiz showed the government's already tenuous control over the country has slipped further since President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded in a rocket attack on his compound in the capital Sanaa on Friday and left for medical care in neighboring Saudi Arabia. Saleh left as his country was edging closer to civil war. (AP Photo/Anees Mahyoub) (AP)

Why is the U.S. striking Yemen?

Natasha Lennard
The New York Times reports that covert American drone strikes targeting al-Qaida in Yemen have resumed

Everything you know about the Civil War is wrong

Joan Walsh
Almost. Historian David Goldfield exposes how evangelical Protestants turned a conflict into a bloody conflagration
People carry the coffin of a rebel fighter killed on the front line against Moammar Gadhafi's forces during his burial next to the Transitional National Council headquarters in rebel stronghold Benghazi, Libya, Saturday, May 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) (AP)

Italy pledges around $600 million to Libyan rebels

Michael Casey
Aid will help pay for "day-to-day needs" of the National Transitional Council
Elle Fanning and Joel Courtney in "Super 8"

“Super 8”: J.J. Abrams’ fake Spielberg movie is real fun

Andrew O'Hehir
J.J. Abrams expertly mimics Spielberg in this loving tribute to '70s cinema and childhood

Do churches have the right to discriminate?

Leslie Fenton
Catholic Charities is suing Illinois for revoking its funding after it refused to serve LGBT families

Social media sites are creating a new dot-com bubble

David Sirota
Speculators are overvaluing companies like LinkedIn and Groupon -- and Wall Street knows it

Is Facebook’s facial recognition tool as creepy as it seems?

Natasha Lennard
The social network has been learning our faces. Rep. Ed Markey joins European regulators in expressing concern

How we ruined the tomato

Adele Melander-Dayton
The plump red fruit has become a symbol of everything that's wrong with modern agriculture. An expert explains why
Newt Gingrich

Newt: For Shariah law before he was against it

Justin Elliott
Not so long ago, the Muslim-baiting presidential hopeful had surprisingly warm relations with the Muslim community
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at a meeting at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq

What withdrawal from Iraq?

Peter Van Buren
The U.S. military may slowly be leaving, but it's being replaced with an ever-growing State Department presence
Anit-government protestors reach to catch a youth, after throwing him in to the air while celebrating President Ali Abdullah Saleh's departure to Saudi Arabia, in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, June 6, 2011. A cease-fire in Yemen's capital was at risk of unraveling Monday as regime supporters opened fire on opposition fighters in renewed clashes that killed at least six. The violence raises fears over the potentially explosive situation after the wounded President Ali Abdullah Saleh left the country, creating a deep power vacuum. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammedi) (AP)

AP sources: Yemen leader hurt worse than thought

Pauline Jelinek, Bradley Klapper
Saleh is receiving treatment in Saudi Arabia for burns covering some 40 percent of his body
Men pray next to portraits of people killed or who disappeared during the rule of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's regime during Friday prayers in Benghazi, Libya, June 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) (AP)

Gadhafi vows to fight to the death

Diaa Hadid
Defiant speech follows NATO's ferocious series of daytime airstrikes on Tripoli
Men carry cucumbers collected for destruction at a greenhouse compound outside Bucharest, Romania, Monday, June 6, 2011. Producers destroyed thousands of tons of cucumbers over the past two days, according to local media, after their production was either turned back from exports or refused for sale by supermarkets in Romania for fear of E. coli bacteria contamination. The current crisis is the deadliest known E. coli outbreak, killing at least 22 people and sickening more than 2,300 across Europe. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) (AP)

E.U. farm chief proposes millions in aid for E. coli

Raf Casert
Outbreak has so far killed 24 people and infected over 2,400
Ralph Reed

The rebirth of grass-roots politics

David Sirota
The NYT piece on Ralph Reed's revival makes an important point: We're seeing a return to old school tactics
Anti-government protestors react during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, May 30, 2011. Yemeni warplanes carried out airstrikes Monday on a southern town seized by hundreds of Islamic militants over the weekend, witnesses said, as the political crisis surrounding the embattled president descended into more bloodshed. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) (AP)

Yemen says govt troops kill 30 Islamic militants

Ahmed Al-haj
A brief statement said the militants were killed Monday night and Tuesday
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