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Obama channels Dr. Stangelove: How the president learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
James Carroll
In 2009, the president promised nuclear disarmament. Five years later, our stockpile remains frightfully intact
Bush’s willful ignorance: Why he wanted to know as little about torture as possible
Elias Isquith
The debate over what Bush knew (and when he knew it) is important — but more for what it says about our own guilt
Sheila Vand: “This is not a movie about being feminist”
Anna Silman
The star of this year's coolest Iranian-vampire-Western on the real message of "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night"
EXCLUSIVE: “Corrupt, toxic and sociopathic”: Glenn Greenwald unloads on torture, CIA and Washington’s rotten soul
Elias Isquith
Glenn Greenwald tells Salon how the torture report exposes true evil — and a nation drowning in hypocrisy
These are lies the New York Times wants you to believe about Russia
Patrick L. Smith
Our sanctions caused Russia's downturn. They protect Big Oil, the well-connected, and make the world more dangerous
“Dead bodies and wasted money”: How I learned firsthand the worst lesson of war
Michael Carson
If you truly want to learn from a war, don’t start one. My unit learned how to survive -- we didn't become smarter
GOP caught in own Benghazi scandal: Why they downplayed objections to House report
Simon Maloy
GOP was furious about the Intelligence Committee’s Benghazi inquiry -- but here's why they kept quiet
The 21 best Reagan protest songs of the ’80s
Kali Holloway
Boss-loving conservatives might want to take a closer listen to the lyrics to "Born in the USA"
Mixed messages: Hillary Clinton slams climate deniers — but still won’t address Keystone XL pipeline
Joanna Rothkopf
The former secretary of state has not given in to mounting pressure to comment on the controversial pipeline
A nation crippled by fear: Why America’s reaction to Ferguson, Tamir Rice and ISIS are all connected
Marcy Wheeler
White people in this country are afraid -- and it's the key to understanding race relations and our foreign policy
The Internet is not enough: Paul Simon’s “Graceland,” Malcolm Gladwell and the importance of real connections
Ethan Zuckerman
Trust Gladwell and "Graceland": True connection and cultural exchange requires "bridge figures" to cement ties
5 dangerous fantasies warping our foreign policy in the Middle East
Andrew Bacevich
Washington assumes the presence of U.S. troops will be a stabilizing force in the region, but why?
“I really fault myself”: Retired Gen. Daniel Bolger on what we got wrong in Iraq
Elias Isquith
Three-star general and author tells Salon what we must learn to avoid making such terrible mistakes again
From Stuff White People Like to #NotYourShield: How irony is killing activism
Arthur Chu
We're so used to skewering dopey progressives who try too hard that we forget what it takes to create real change
This is why conservatives win: George Lakoff explains the importance of framing — and what Democrats need to learn
Paul Rosenberg
Messaging matters, George Lakoff tells Salon, but the key to politics is combining message with a moral grounding
“A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night”: The black-and-white, feminist Iranian vampire western you’ve been waiting for
Andrew O'Hehir
This gorgeous, haunting fable of a handsome boy, a beautiful undead girl and a car is the year's biggest discovery
Media’s awful right-wing fetish: Why pundit calls for Obama centrism are deluded
Joan Walsh
Hyping tension between president and Joe Manchin types, the Centrist Fetishists play Democrats against each other
Why a Republican Congress might actually be the end of the world
Michael Klare
Keystone XL may be dead for now, but it's only one of several measures that would put the planet in grave danger
Fox News misleads about Jon Stewart: Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and the insane new partisanship
Sophia A. McClennen
In new interviews, Stewart explains difference between Hannity and O'Reilly. Fox just misleads about "Daily Show"
Ronald Reagan’s hip-hop nightmare: How an ugly cocaine controversy reignited 30 years later
Matthew Pulver
The hip-hop community is convinced Reagan oversaw a vast trafficking network during the crack epidemic. Is it true?
Jon Stewart’s war on propaganda: Hannity, Cruz sound as dogmatic as fundamentalist Iranians
Sophia A. McClennen
"The Daily Show" and "Rosewater" have this in common: The unblinking courage to call out official state lies
Shame on you, Michael Moore: Why his defense of Bill Maher was unacceptable
Ilirjan Shehu
Last week, Moore said that anger over Bill Maher's Islamophobia was misplaced. Here's why he's very wrong
GOP’s crazy “real men” crew: Why neocon hawks are ready to wreck American foreign policy again
Heather Digby Parton
With a whole new class of hawks recently elected, here's why their colleagues are maniacally licking their chops
From Reagan to Obama: How America has created an infrastructure for permanent war
David Vine
The U.S. has military bases across the Middle East. Is it any wonder we ricochet from one conflict to another?
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