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Journalist Seymour Hersh attends Al Jazeera Forum "Media and the Middle East - Beyond the Headlines" in Doha April 1, 2007. REUTERS/Fadi Al-Assaad (QATAR) (Fadi Al-assaad)

The WH/Politico attack on Seymour Hersh

Glenn Greenwald
Two administration officials bash the Pulitzer Prize winner over Iran while hiding their identity
Kelsey Grammar, Katherine Harris and George P. Bush

Additional 2012 Republican dream candidates

Alex Pareene
Who needs Mitch Daniels? We've got the would-be presidents the GOP should really be recruiting
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Sen. Benjamin Cardin’s impressive feat

Glenn Greenwald
The Maryland Democrat reaches new heights of hypocrisy and nationalistic projection even for D.C.
Joe Lieberman

Joe Lieberman’s “strong,” “serious” legacy

Alex Pareene
The independent warmonger trains a new generation
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 24, 2011. Vice President Joe Biden, left, and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, right, listen. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (Susan Walsh)

Netanyahu gets more standing ovations than Obama

Justin Elliott
An annotated guide to the 29 standing ovations during Benjamin Netanyahu's hard-line speech to Congress
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, left, is welcomed by Chinese President Hu Jintao for a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Friday, May 20, 2011.

Has America miscalculated in Pakistan?

Dilip Hiro
Should its relationship with the U.S. collapse, Islamabad has another patron to fall back on: China
Director Lars Von Trier poses for photos during an interview in Mougins, southern France, Friday, May 20, 2011. On Thursday, May 19, 2011 the Danish filmmaker was booted out of the Cannes Film Festival for a bizarre, rambling news conference in which he said he sympathizes with Adolph Hitler. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) (AP)

Iran slams Cannes for Von Trier Nazi ban

Associated Press
Iranian deputy culture minister Javad Shamaqdari blasts Cannes for banishing filmmaker after Nazi rant
Clockwise from left: Niall Ferguson, Glenn Beck, Jonah Goldberg and Ann Coulter

Niall Ferguson and the brain-dead American right

Michael Lind
The British historian owes his celebrity here to the absence of authentic American conservative intellectuals
President Barack Obama

One big bust of a speech

Justin Elliott
President Obama's speech responding to the Arab spring doesn't add up to much
Tim Pawlenty and Mitt Romney

The GOP’s vibrant, robust debate on the U.S.-Israel relationship

Justin Elliott
The Republican candidates line up to make formulaic pledges of support for Israel
Syrian citizens who fled from violence from the western Syrian villages along the Lebanese-Syrian border, protest as they shout slogans against Bashar Assad and his regime, in the Wadi Khaled area, about one kilometer (0.6 miles) from the Lebanon-Syria border, north Lebanon, on Monday May 16, 2011. Carrying mattresses and bags of clothing, Syrians fleeing their homeland described a "catastrophic" scene Monday in a besieged border town that has been largely sealed off as the army tries to crush a two-month uprising. (AP Photo) (AP)

Syrian leader defiant as U.S. sanctions bite deep

Zeina Karam
President Bashar Assad claims the country's "crisis" is drawing to a close
FILE - This undated file photo shows Dorothy Parvaz, a former Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter and now Al-Jazeera journalist. The pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera said Wednesday, May 11, 2011 that Syrian officials report that one of the network's journalists, Dorothy Parvaz, was sent to Iran following her detention last month in Damascus. (AP Photo/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo, File) (AP)

Journalist detained in Syria released by Iran

Adam Schreck
Dorothy Parvaz arrived safely at Al Jazeera's home base of Qatar on Wednesday
Newt Gingrich and Ronald Reagan

No, Newt, your campaign’s not just like Reagan’s

Steve Kornacki
The most epically disastrous presidential campaign rollout in history continues
Chris Christie and Jon Huntsman

Five signs your Republican governor wants to be president

Alex Pareene
Did he suddenly express doubts about evolution or develop an interest in bombing foreign countries? Watch out
FILE - In this Dec. 24, 1998 file photo, Muslim militant and al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden speaks to a selected group of reporters in mountains of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. The Americans who raided bin Laden's lair met far less resistance than the Obama administration described in the aftermath, according to its latest account. The commandos encountered gunshots from only one man, whom they quickly killed, before sweeping the house and shooting others, who were unarmed, a senior defense official said. (AP Photo/Rahimullah Yousafzai, File) (AP)

The bin Laden dividend

Glenn Greenwald
Bin Laden's death prompts hopes of wars ending and civil liberties returning. Here's why you shouldn't bet on it
In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and acquired Saturday April 23, 2011, by The AP, Syrian anti-government protesters carry the coffin of an activist who was killed on Friday during his funeral procession in Quaboun near Damascus, Syria, Saturday, April 23, 2011. Syrian security forces fired on tens of thousands of mourners during funeral processions Saturday, killing several people following the deadliest day of the uprising against authoritarian President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo) (Str)

The massacre you’ve been ignoring

Justin Elliott
With the Western media focused on bin Laden, the situation in Syria has been deteriorating
John Bolton

John Bolton: I care about things besides bombing Iran

Alex Pareene
Politico enables the far-fetched presidential fantasies of a very silly Bush relic
President Barack Obama greets guests in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 2, 2011, following a ceremony where he awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously to U.S. Army Private First Class Anthony T. KahoÍohanohano and U.S. Army Private First Class Henry Svehla for conspicuous gallantry during the Korean War. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (Associated Press)

Who’s soft on terror now?

Gene Lyons
As a symbol, bin Laden maintained a stranglehold on the American psyche. As a man, he was increasingly irrelevant
People in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad celebrate Osama bin Laden's killing May 2, 2011.

Bin Laden was not a “Muslim leader”

David Sirota
The Washington Post -- and many Americans -- may doubt Obama's words, but poll numbers prove their truth
Jimmy Carter in his famous "moral equivalent of war" fireside chat in 1977.

Not so fast! Obama still hasn’t shaken the Carter syndrome

Andrew Leonard
Memo to the president: In 1980, the economic disasters were at least as damaging as the foreign policy debacles

The decade of bin Laden politics

Steve Kornacki
George W. Bush responded to 9/11 with a binge of hubris that shaped American politics for years to come
(AP/Rodrigo Abd)

Why this won’t end World War IV

Michael Lind
Will neocons abandon their rhetoric now? No, because Osama was never the enemy
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What Osama’s death looked like at ground zero

Matt Zoller Seitz
I rode the subway in to experience the madness for myself -- the crowds, the tweeting and the conspiracy theories
In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and acquired by the AP, Syrians gather after Friday prayers during an anti-government protest in the coastal city of Banias, Syria, Friday, April 29, 2011. Thousands of Syrian protesters chanting "We are not afraid!" were met with bullets and tear gas Friday as security forces opened fire, killing more than 40 people. Many of the dead were villagers who tried to break a military blockade in the city at the heart of the six-week uprising, witnesses said. (AP Photo) (AP)

Syrian troops kill 4 at mosque in restive city

Diaa Hadid, Bassem Mroue
More members of Assad regime resign in protest against crackdown
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