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Pregnant British woman faces execution
Kate Harding
Laotian authorities claim the upcoming trial of 20-year-old Samantha Orobator will be fair, but that would be a departure from everything else about her case.
You can spare a dime to save a kid
Frances Kissling
Instead of buying yachts and gilded trash cans, Wall Street's bailout kings could have spent some of their excess cash alleviating poverty. But what about you and me?
Stop worrying about your children!
Katharine Mieszkowski
Kids today are just as safe as they were in the '70s, says "Free-Range Kids" author Lenore Skenazy, and what's really distressing is an alarmist culture that refuses to let them grow up.
UAE “torture” scandal and cover-up sparks outrage in the U.S.
Glenn Greenwald
How primitive and uncivilized must a country be to allow its leading officials to inflict torture with no accountability?
Rorschach “Rachel”
Andrew O'Hehir
An Israeli film explores the ambiguous death of Rachel Corrie, peacenik angel to some and "terrorist-loving swine" to others.
The need of the most powerful to turn themselves into victims
Glenn Greenwald
Whatever motivated the prosecution of two AIPAC officials, unfair oppression of that group in the U.S. wasn't it.
What the White House knew about Souter
Mike Madden
Justice David Souter's upcoming departure wasn't entirely a secret in Washington. The administration had already started planning for a Supreme Court vacancy before the news broke.
China: What world recession?
Andrew Leonard
Forecasts for economic growth in the Middle Kingdom are getting some big revisions upward. That global meltdown? Just a speed bump.
Getting all Hugo Chavez on the hedge funds
Andrew Leonard
Wall Street investors are moaning and whining about President Obama's attack on speculators. For supposed smart guys, they're not too hip to what's happening.
The Supreme Court pick of Obama’s dreams
Joe Conason
Sonia Sotomayor, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals judge who comes from working-class Puerto Rican roots, is everything the president could desire.
“X-Men Origins: Wolverine”
Stephanie Zacharek
Hugh Jackman bares his claws, and his buff chest, as a mutant superhero in the first of the big summer action films.
A sob story from the vultures who forced Chrysler into bankruptcy
Andrew Leonard
Hedge fund operators are claiming the government offered them a raw deal. But we should spare no tears for people who specialize in rending the rotting flesh of companies in trouble.
Michele Bachmann strikes again
Alex Koppelman
The Minnesota congresswoman managed to get an anti-ACORN amendment past the committee chair, Rep. Barney Frank, and he's not happy about it.
Miss Anti-Gay Marriage
Tracy Clark-Flory
The National Organization for Marriage uses pageant loser Carrie Prejean in its new ad.
The political benefit of taking on the hedge funds
Alex Koppelman
President Obama is likely to take some heat for so directly criticizing some of Chrysler's lenders, but it's likely that his stance will ultimately help him.
Obama: Chrysler’s bankruptcy forced by hedge fund speculators
Andrew Leonard
"I don't stand with them," the president says of the lenders who refused a deal. "I stand with Chrysler's employees, management and suppliers."
The great foreskin debate
Joy Press
To snip or not to snip? That was the question facing new parent Danae Elon, who didn't just wrestle with the controversies of circumcision -- she made a documentary about it.
Top Senate Democrat: bankers “own” the U.S. Congress
Glenn Greenwald
Dick Durbin's confession ought to be major news, yet it won't be. Why not?
Steele faces rebellion inside RNC
Alex Koppelman
A group of former heavyweights inside the party committee is looking to take away some of the chairman's spending power.
Can Americans fire Wall Street CEOs?
Robert Reich
The immediate challenge in the banking crisis is to sort out public from private responsibilities and to create clearer lines of accountability.
Obama and race: Silence is golden
Gary Kamiya
The president has dramatically improved race relations -- by not talking about race.
Forget swine flu! What about abortion?
Katharine Mieszkowski
Sarah Palin's supporters fight Obama's nomination for secretary of health and human services.
“Choose life” license plates speeding to court
Tracy Clark-Flory
Should the DMV get to ban certain political slogans?
Will I ever get over this?
Cary Tennis
After 10 years I'm still as anguished as the day his car pulled away from the curb.
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