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The people who claim “the surge is working”
Glenn Greenwald
The statements and behavior of surge proponents over the past four years ought to disqualify them from public respectability.
The Fix
Scott Lamb
On the Peter Braunstein case. Reviewing Prince's Las Vegas show. Plus: Alanis Morissette covers Fergie.
“The Feminine Mistake”
Joan Walsh
In her new book, boomer Leslie Bennetts warns younger women of the perils of dumping fulfilling careers. I agree, but why are women always told they're doing something wrong?
Welcome to the neighborhood, Politico!
Joan Walsh
The new Web publishing venture has gotten pummeled this week for mistakes as well as political bias. Should Salon be throwing stones?
Wait until they hear about those parking tickets
Tim Grieve
The Wall Street Journal digs deep on Obama.
House nears approval of withdrawal plan
Tim Grieve
Liberal holdouts conclude that the speaker's plan is better than no plan.
Congressional Republicans suddenly discover the need for oversight
Glenn Greenwald
Driven by the public disclosure of but a fraction of the surveillance abuses they have enabled, Congressional Republicans pretend to discover the virtues of oversight.
The prosecutor purge: A case study in damage control
Tim Grieve
The Justice Department's efforts haven't worked so well, but it's not for lack of trying.
Thank you, Howard Kurtz
Joan Walsh
A column crediting Talking Points Memo for great work on the U.S. attorneys story finally gets Salon's Walter Reed scoops mentioned in the Washington Post.
Plame: I was covert until they outed me
Tim Grieve
The former CIA operative says the actions of Rove, Libby and Armitage made it impossible for her to do her job.
Hillary vs. Obama: It’s a drawl!
Camille Paglia
Barack Obama commands respect while Hillary Clinton overacts. Plus: John Edwards' disappearing act, Mary Shelley debunked, and Ann Coulter's gender weirdness.
The New York Times and Al Gore’s science
Andrew Leonard
Climate change bloggers go on the warpath against a NYT article reporting that scientists are taking issue with "An Inconvenient Truth."
Hillary Clinton woos women
Page Rockwell
News stories tell us again and again -- and again -- that Clinton can't count on the female vote. Why does this message bear so much repetition?
Street writing man
Ben Cosgrove
His nouns were concrete. His verbs were active. He listened to his subjects. Before "Paris Trout," Pete Dexter was the newspaperman's newspaperman.
Washington Post: “Accountability” is dangerous
Tim Grieve
A warning for Democrats who might make too much of Scooter Libby, Walter Reed and the politicization of justice.
A plastic surgeon for your private bits
Catherine Price
A Washington, D.C., doctor takes on plastic surgery's "final frontier."
India’s “missing girls”
Tracy Clark-Flory
The Washington Times looks at the country's spate of sex-selective abortions and female infanticide.
Hairy-legged feminists storm the U.N.!
Carol Lloyd
Conservative columnists warn of the dangers of the 51st Commission on the Status of Women.
A hallmark of idiocy
Glenn Greenwald
Those who think they are making a substantive point by citing randomly chosen blog comments reveal themselves to be bereft of substance.
Big, black and … comical?
Tracy Clark-Flory
Eddie Murphy's new comedy stars a ribs-loving, man-chasing overweight black woman.
Frank Gaffney’s WMDs
Glenn Greenwald
There is literally no limit on the truth-denying capacity of Bush followers.
Why I had to quit the John Edwards campaign
Amanda Marcotte
During my brief tenure as blogmaster for a Democratic presidential contender, I experienced the right-wing smear machine firsthand
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