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We’ve corporatized the planet: The unseemly secret about America’s foreign policy
Patrick L. Smith
In Ukraine, however, these efforts seem to have failed. Here's why that's a good thing
The “New American Century” is over before it started
Pepe Escobar
While America battles ISIS in the Middle East, a new kind of threat to its global hegemony is emerging in Eurasia
The sex scandal that wrecked American politics
Laura Miller
The birth of gotcha journalism and empty-suit candidates can be traced back to Gary Hart's ill-fated boat trip
Why the GOP hates U.S. history: Inconvenient truths that freak out American conservatives
Sean McElwee
The right is losing its mind over new testing standards that aren't "patriotic" enough. Time for a history lesson!
From 9/11 to ISIS: The massive failure of U.S. intelligence
Tom Engelhardt
Taxpayers are pouring $68 billion annually into 17 intelligence outfits. Why do they seem to offer anything but?
8 disturbing ways the Kochs have amassed their fortune
Terrell Jermaine Starr
The billionaire industrialists are living proof that oligarchs aren't exclusive to developing nations
U.S. government to American people: Stay away from these countries
Simran Khosla
In total, the State Department has travel warnings in place for 41 nations across the globe
Obama’s U.N. speech: We won’t be “an occupying power”
Julie Pace, Josh Lederman
In speech before General Assembly, president says the world is "at a crossroads between war and peace"
Apocalypse then and now: Why Iraq is America’s greatest quagmire
Peter Van Buren
Washington has again plunged into the swamp that is the Sunni-Shia conflict. History suggests we may never escape
The Dick Cheney view of presidential power is winning
Joan Walsh
Feckless Congress campaigns instead of voting on Syrian airstrikes, while McCain and Graham want to move on Assad
The right’s Alinsky problem: Desperate right-wing ploy to make “radicals” of Obama and Clinton
Simon Maloy
Conservatives obsess over a long-dead radical activist's links to Democrats, and lash out when nobody seems to care
“My boys”: The Syrian street kids who found me
Emily Jane O'Dell
I was a professor far from home. They were refugees. With a camera, we saw the world through each other's eyes
We really must remember the epic failures of George W. Bush
Paul Rosenberg
The New York Times wants us to forget how we got here. The real problem is that Barack Obama stopped reminding us
Why America will never win the war on terror
Tom Engelhardt
The U.S. military is neither a nation nor an army builder. It bodes ill for our future efforts in the Middle East
“Dude, you get to blow up stuff”: The moral awakening of a Navy man
Keith Gentry
We had become so desensitized to death we laughed at violent YouTube videos. I wanted more than blind patriotism
Rich neocon’s twisted scheme: Meet the private equity hawk cheering for Ukraine
Sam Knight
How a super-wealthy friend of Ted Cruz acts as a window to the State Department's morbid cheerleading in Ukraine
Obama channels Reagan: Why his ISIS strategy is doomed from the start
Stephan Richter, Richard Phillips
The Gipper's muscular foreign policy did nothing to prevent terrorist attacks. Obama's falling into the same trap
Watergate’s most lasting sin: Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, and the pardon that made us all cynics
Rick Perlstein
Ford let Nixon off 40 years ago today. That launched Iran-Contra, "too big to fail" -- and proved power trumps law
A reminder from the World Health Organization: LGBT people are not “sick”
Jenny Kutner
A recently released international report aims to challenge policies that treat homosexuality as a disease
What atheists like Bill Maher have in common with medieval Christian crusaders
CJ Werleman
The "Real Time" host and his fellow new atheists are using ISIS as yet another opportunity to beat up on Muslims
If Thomas Friedman is the voice of reason on ISIS, then things have gotten out of hand
Jim Newell
Hawks sure are making it sound easy to comprehensively "crush" ISIS. Even Tom Friedman (!) is sick of hearing it
Vladimir Putin goes rogue: Ukraine, NATO, nuclear weapons — and a very dangerous new reality
Jeffrey Tayler
Post-Cold War era's over. Dealing with Putin means learning to talk to him, and respecting some legitimate concerns
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