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Superman's new look.

DC starts from scratch with Superman

Drew Grant
A reinvented Superman loses Lois Lane, but might rediscover the American way
Pakistani protesters burn a representation of an American flag during a rally to condemn U. S. drone attacks targeting al-Qaida and Taliban militants' hideout in Pakistani tribal belt of Waziristan along the Afghanistan border, on Thursday, July 7, 2011 in Mutan, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer) (AP)

US more unpopular in the Arab world than under Bush

Glenn Greenwald
A new poll confirms prior ones: anti-American sentiment is now at dangerously - even unprecedentedly - high levels

We’re stuck in Bush’s America

Tom Engelhardt
W. and Cheney have faded from public view, but Obama continues to carry out their destructive war on terror
An unarmed U.S. "Shadow" drone is launched in this undated photograph, released on January 5, 2011

Will drones change how we see war?

Barbara Ehrenreich
As machines take the place of humans on the battlefield, our relationship to combat is shifting
The empty chair of Syria's ambassador to Austria Bassam al-Sabbagh at the start of International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA's board of governors meeting at the International Center, in Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, June 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak) (AP)

AP Exclusive: Security Council to talk Syria nukes

George Jahn
The U.N. Security Council plans to meet next week to discuss what to do about Syria's refusal to cooperate
Jeffrey Goldberg

Whatever happened to that war with Iran?

Justin Elliott
Last year, Jeffrey Goldberg sounded the alarm about an Israeli attack on Iran by July 2011. What happened?
FILE - In this June 27, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the White House in Washington. Call him the Digital Candidate: President Barack Obama has asked supporters to use Facebook to declare “I’m in” for his re-election campaign and has begun using Twitter to communicate with his nearly 9 million followers. If Obama broke new ground using email, text messages and the Web to reach voters in 2008, Obama version 2.0 aims to harness the expansive roles that the Internet and social media are playing now in voters’ lives. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) (AP)

To defend President Obama, Harold Koh criticizes candidate Obama

Glenn Greenwald
A one-minute video from the administration's spokesman on the war captures the heart of the current presidency
Fereidoun Abbasi Davani, Iran's Vice President and Head of Atomic Energy Organization, smiles during at the Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety at the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, in Vienna, Austria, on Monday, June 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak) (AP)

Russia: Iran’s nuclear plant to start up in August

Associated Press
Moscow and Tehran signed a $1 billion contract to build the 1,000-megawatt Bushehr plant in 1995
An injured Afghan man, a victim of a blast lies in a hospital bed in Kunduz city in the northern province of Kunduz, Afghanistan, Saturday, June 25, 2011. A bicycle rigged with explosives ripped through a bazaar in the Khanabad district of Kunduz province on Friday, killing at least 10 people, including a police officer. At least 24 people were wounded in the attack, according to an Interior Ministry statement. (AP Photo/Balal) (AP)

Car bomber kills 35 at Afghan clinic

Rahim Faiez, Solomon Moore
Militant in SUV claims dozens of lives, injures more in suicide attack
In this photo released by the official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, places his hand on his heart as a gesture of respect to the lawmakers, foreground, as some of them clench their fists while chanting slogans, at the start of their meeting, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 29, 2011. A picture of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini hangs at rear. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader) EDITORIAL USE ONLY NO SALES (AP)

Iran’s supreme leader accuses U.S. of terrorism

Ali Akbar Dareini
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rails against American military force in Middle East

Peter Falk, TV’s rumpled Columbo, has died

ANTHONY McCARTNEY
Falk, 83, died Thursday in his Beverly Hills home, according to a statement released Friday
James Risen and President Barack Obama

Climate of Fear: Jim Risen v. the Obama administration

Glenn Greenwald
NYT reporter Jim Risen says Obama's actions "will have a chilling effect on freedom of the press in the U.S."
Bahraini Shiite Muslims chant slogans to free prisoners during a sermon Friday, June 10, 2011, in Diraz, Bahrain, when Sheik Issa Qassem, Bahrain's top Shiite cleric, said Bahrain should free political prisoners and that the nation's reputation is being damaged by prosecuting doctors, teachers, youths, women, clerics and other professionals arrested during the crackdown on anti-government protesters. Many Shiite Muslim clerics, including Sheik Ali Salman, leader of the largest opposition party, attended midday prayers in Diraz, an unusual move to show their solidarity with Qassem. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (AP)

Bahrain’s crackdown: Out of the streets into the courts

Natasha Lennard
Eight activists are given life sentences and hundreds more face trial and torture
FILE - In this Friday, June 3, 2011 file photo, Bahraini women shout "God is greater" in the streets of the Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Sanabis in Manama, Bahrain, shortly after riot police dispersed anti-government protesters who began a march after the funeral of a woman they claim died of tear gas inhalation the day before. The Shiite groups that speak on behalf of protesters, who took to the streets four months ago to demand greater rights, have shown no rush to embrace the appeals for dialogue by the Sunni monarchs they accuse of creating a two-tier society in the strategic Gulf kingdom. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File) (AP)

Bahrain sentences 8 Shiite activists to life

Associated Press
Court decision could spark another round of unrest after months of lockdown-level security
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The right really, really wants Obama to be Jimmy Carter

Steve Kornacki
Why is it that every address Obama delivers is the second coming of the "malaise" speech?
Juan Cole's Salon contributor caricature

A Juan Cole reading list, 2005 to 2006

Natasha Lennard
A collection of the Michigan professor's Salon pieces from the time he was reportedly under the CIA's watch

Iran bans necklaces and “glamorous haircuts” for men

Natasha Lennard
Thousands of trained forces are sent onto Tehran's streets to enforce a strict dress code, even for men
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, speaks during an interview with The Associate Press in his office at the Pentagon Monday, June 13, 2011 in Washington.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP)

Gates says NATO alliance in danger of breaking

Robert Burns
Retiring defense secretary says strategic alliance's future is "dim, if not dismal"
A Syrian refugee woman brings laundry to an irrigation canal in a camp, in Boynuyogun, Turkey, Tuesday, June 14, 2011. According to the Turkish Prime Minister's office the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey stands at more than 8.500 people.As the government expands its crackdown on dissent, activists report tanks entering the northern town of Maaret al-Numan on Tuesday and other villages near Jisr al-Shughour.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) (AP)

Tanks, troops move to snuff out Syria resistance

Selcan Hacaoglu, Elizabeth A. Kennedy
Embattled president has abandoned most pretenses of reform, is sealing off strategic areas in the north and east

Neocon flack: Weiner may have converted to Islam

Justin Elliott
A neoconservative public relations operative argues the Jewish congressman may have converted to Islam

How the hot dog became the most American food

Felisa Rogers
Served everywhere from Coney Island to the FDR White House, the wiener has come to symbolize our way of life
Muammar Qaddafi, the Libyan chief of state, attends the 12th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Feb. 2, 2009. Qaddafi was elected chairman of the organization. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jesse B. Awalt/Released) (Cjtf-hoa/pao)

In a pure coincidence, Gaddafi impeded U.S. oil interests before the war

Glenn Greenwald
WikiLeaks cables reveal the dictator was increasingly devoted to the "Libyanization" of the country's resources
Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum speaks during a Presidential Lecture Series sponsored by The Family Leader, Monday, May 2, 2011, at Pella Christian High School in Pella, Iowa. Santorum is making his 13th visit to Iowa, the most of any Republican weighing a 2012 bid. Iowa's presidential precinct caucuses are expected to begin the GOP nominating sequence in February. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) (AP)

Santorum says he’s getting into presidential race

Philip Elliott, Kevin Begos
Former Pennsylvania senator will formally announce his intentions later today
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Why sanctions against Iran won’t work

Reza Marashi
It might help to understand how Iran's leaders perceive threats from America and its Western allies
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