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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
More powerful than a locomotive...but how about a head of state?

Superman no longer identifies as American

Drew Grant
When the man of steel renounces his U.S. citizenship, what does that say about our country?
Egyptians shout anti-Mubarak slogans as they demonstrate in front of the hospital where former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 82, is being hospitalized in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Wednesday, April 13, 2011. Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak was put under detention in his hospital room Wednesday for investigation on accusations of corruption, abuse of power and killings of protesters in a dramatic step Wednesday that brought celebrations from the movement that drove him from office. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (AP)

Strong anti-American sentiment in Egypt

Glenn Greenwald
A new poll reveals the dangers of U.S. policy in that region, and the lack of change in perception
Threatened and fallen dictator friends of the United States. Clockwise from upper left: Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, Bahrain's Hamad bin Isa Khalifa, Tunisia's Ben Ali and Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh

Washington in a bind as local despots fall

Alfred McCoy, Brett Reilly
An empire built on autocrats, aristocrats, and uniformed thugs begins to totter
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Newly leaked documents show the ongoing travesty of Guantanamo

Glenn Greenwald
A massive WikiLeaks disclosure sheds new light on the lack of credible evidence against detainees
In this photo taken Sept. 2, 2010, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley speaks to reporters at the State Department in Washington. Crowley has resigned after causing a stir by describing the Army's treatment of the suspected WikiLeaks leaker, Pfc. Bradley Manning, as "ridiculous" and "stupid." In a statement Sunday, March 13, 2011, Crowley took responsibility for the remarks and submitted his resignation to Clinton. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (Charles Dharapak)

The vindication of P.J. Crowley

Justin Elliott
The former State Department spokesman talks to Salon about the latest on Bradley Manning and Obama's foreign policy
Syrian anti-government protesters march during a demonstration following Friday prayers near Damascus, Syria, Friday, April 22, 2011. Security forces fired live bullets and tear gas Friday at tens of thousands of people shouting for freedom and democracy in several areas across the country. (AP Photo) (AP)

27 people killed as Syrian security fires on protest

Bassem Mroue
Syria's protest movement faces increased challenges in one of the bloodiest attacks on protesters yet
President Barack Obama meets with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (Associated Press)

Is the world too big to fail?

Noam Chomsky
As its global dominance wanes, America battles democracy, both at home and abroad
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Beltway austerity values

Glenn Greenwald
The Washington Post wants more money for more wars, while reducing healthcare benefits for those who fight them
FILE - On this April 6, 2011, file photo, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., speaks at an Americans for Prosperity "Cut Spending Now," rally on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Barack Obama has launched his re-election bid in a low-key manner, but the Republican Party’s search for a challenger seems stranger by the day. In Iowa at least, there’s also widespread talk about Bachmann, who would be the first president elected directly from the House since James Garfield. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) (AP)

Sleepwalking into the imperial dark

Tom Engelhardt
America today: What it feels like when a superpower runs off the tracks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center right, and Defense Minster Ehud Barak, center left, visit the Iron Dome missile defense system, background, deployed in Ashkelon, southern Israel, Sunday, April 10, 2011. A senior member of Gaza's ruling Hamas movement on Sunday made a rare appeal to the Israeli public to halt escalating cross-border fighting, telling an Israeli radio station in fluent Hebrew that Hamas is ready to stop its rocket fire if Israel ends its attacks on Gaza. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) (AP)

Three myths of Israel’s insecurity

Ira Chernus
It's time to debunk the idea that the Jewish state's existence is under constant threat
In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and acquired by the AP, Syrian women attend an anti-government protest in Banias, Syria, Saturday, April 16, 2011. President Bashar Assad was expected to appear in a televised speech, witnesses said. The speech will be Assad's second public appearance since the country's protest movement began a month ago. (AP Photo) (AP)

Three killed at funeral for slain Syrian protester

Zeina Karam
Attack comes day after embattled president promised reform
Former president Thomas Jefferson and President Barack Obama

Our original Libyan misadventure

Eric Scigliano
What President Obama should know about Thomas Jefferson's decision to confront a troublesome tyrant in Tripoli
President Barack Obama shakes hands with military officers after he spoke about Libya at the National Defense University in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (Charles Dharapak)

The secret militarism of Obama’s defense spending cuts

David Sirota
The Pentagon would take on an even greater share of spending. Is this what Americans really want?

Donald Trump’s “Today” interview: What you didn’t see

Drew Grant
Meredith Vieira does battle with the "Apprentice" star's hair in this unaired NBC footage
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Barack Obama and John F. Kennedy

Bad influences: JFK, Ike and Obama

Michael Lind
The war in Libya is a reminder of how the current president embodies the worst traits of two of his predecessors
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Primitive Muslims’ unique love of violence

Glenn Greenwald
The same people who cheered on the attack on Iraq lament the barbarism of Islam
President Barack Obama delivers his address at the National Defense University in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2011, to give an update on Libya. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (AP)

Obama’s new view of his own war powers

Glenn Greenwald
The administration's theory of executive authority contradicts what Obama once said but replicates the Bush DOJ
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