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Breaking the Iraq stalemate
Gary Kamiya
Once a mighty war god, Bush has run out of tricks, troops and time. Will Americans finally rise up to stop his endless war?
Joe Biden: Face global warming or global conflict
Amanda Griscom Little
The presidential candidate says failing to address climate change would lead to new wars and a changed U.S. military.
The “Return on Success” and the “consequences of failure”
Tim Grieve
The president explains his strategy for Iraq.
Selective defenders of free expression
Glenn Greenwald
Safeguarding anti-Muslim expression while suppressing and censoring anti-Christian expression.
One-sided rules of political debate
Glenn Greenwald
The "controversy" over the MoveOn ad is petty and vapid but nonetheless revealing of the double standards governing our political debates.
How secure are you?
Camille Paglia
Petraeus' empty words and the real terror threat. Plus: Larry Craig's libidinal misstep is grounded in modern male sexuality.
Hagel: “Where is this going?”
Salon Staff
Maverick Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel asks some tough questions of Gen. Petraeus during Tuesday's hearing about the war in Iraq.
Lieberman to Petraeus: Your critics should be cheering
Tim Grieve
Just don't hold him to his drawdown plan.
Brit Hume and the Bush administration take propaganda to a new level
Glenn Greenwald
Gen. Petraeus gives an exclusive "interview" that was scripted by the U.S. military and designed to bolster every claim of the Bush administration.
The real lessons of 9/11
Gary Kamiya
The attacks exposed grave weaknesses in our nation's defenses, our national institutions and ultimately our national character.
Fox News’ hourlong Petraeus and Crocker commercial
Alex Koppelman
The network, long derided as a Republican mouthpiece, did nothing to dispel that image with Brit Hume's post-hearing interview.
Various items
Glenn Greenwald
Giuliani's blatant lying on video. What real political adversarial journalism looks like. Bin Laden appears: Time to panic.
Killing her softly with his song
Walter Shapiro
Barack Obama wants to transform politics. But can he defeat Hillary Clinton by casting her as the divider and himself as the uniter?
What you missed while watching “Rescue Me”
Michael Scherer
Salon watches another GOP debate so you don't have to: Fox News men get plucky! Dems take heat for Larry Craig! McCain surges at Romney! And much more.
How to win in Iraq: Arm everybody!
Joan Walsh
If you support every side in a multiethnic civil war, you can't help coming out a winner.
How Bush betrays Reagan
Gary Kamiya
Bush idolizes the Great Communicator. But Reagan's successes came because he didn't follow his conservative ideology.
Warrantless surveillance and the new Coretta Scott King disclosures
Glenn Greenwald
The FBI's past warrantless surveillance abuses demonstrate the severe dangers of the FISA bill just passed by the Democratic Congress.
Bush’s Napoleon complex
Juan Cole
The president's appeals to democracy, liberty and security to justify the carnage in Iraq recall Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian conquest.
The war against Iraq’s prime minister
Juan Cole
Sens. Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin are calling for Nouri al-Maliki's ouster as a way of attacking Bush's Iraq policy. But do they understand the consequences?
The president’s escalating war rhetoric on Iran
Glenn Greenwald
As its provocations toward Iran increase, what could stop the Bush administration from commencing an attack on that country?
Carl Levin reveals the Democrats’ Iraq “strategy”
Glenn Greenwald
The senator's proclamations that the surge is working make clear that Congress will do nothing to end the war and much to ensure its continuation.
Seizing American supremacy
Dilip Hiro
Throughout history, rising powers have overtaken superpowers. The United States will not prove an exception.
Why is the Democratic Congress so unpopular?
Glenn Greenwald
It is the Democrats' failure to provide meaningful opposition to Bush (thanks to their "Blue Dogs," consultants and TNR-types) that is the principal cause of their unpopularity.
Are Democrats really so lame?
Joan Walsh
Republicans are on the ropes, but yet another mainstream media star says it's Democrats who are in trouble, thanks to Bush-hating bloggers and billionaires. Here we go again.
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