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“There are indeed consequences”: The case against Gen. David Petraeus
Jesselyn Radack
The Espionage Act is a bad law -- but here's why the former CIA director needs to be prosecuted for violating it
Margaret Cho’s squeamish Globes cameo: Why her North Korean bit was so weird to watch
Sonia Saraiya
The Golden Globes are usually Hollywood's chance to pat themselves on the back. Then Margaret Cho goose-stepped in
The polar vortex doesn’t mean the Earth isn’t warming
Brian Kahn
Important reminder: Our current cold spell is one week of weather affecting a very tiny fraction of the planet
Leo Tolstoy’s theory of everything
Irina Paperno
Before writing some of the greatest novels in history, Tolstoy asked some of philosophy's hardest questions
“We dare you to stop us”: Inside Big Oil’s sinister plan to derail the anti-carbon movement
Michael T. Klare
Rather than retreating, Exxon and other companies are going on the offensive as mankind hangs in the balance
The Charlie Hebdo hypocrites: Meet the free-expression absolutists who aren’t so absolute outside of the Muslim world
Jim Sleeper
In China, Singapore and elsewhere, would-be warriors seldom defend "our" values against equally decisive attacks
“Leviathan”: A tragic, ironic masterpiece from Putin’s Russia
Andrew O'Hehir
Breathtaking Arctic scenery, political corruption, sex and vodka -- "Leviathan" is the year's best foreign film
“Unburnable”: To avoid catastrophic climate change, most of the world’s fossil fuels must remain in the ground
Lindsay Abrams
A new study is one of the strongest arguments yet against the Keystone XL pipeline
Elizabeth Warren’s surprising compliment: Why comparisons to Ted Cruz are good
Heather Digby Parton
It's reasonable to recoil when DC gasbags compare Elizabeth Warren to Ted Cruz. But here's its less-obvious upside
Religion’s sinister fairy tale: Extremists, the religious right, Reza Aslan and the fight for reason
Jeffrey Tayler
We must no longer ignore the propagation of apocalyptic fables that large numbers of people take seriously
“The result … of a political failure”: Historian Adam Tooze on why the lessons of WWI still resonate today
Elias Isquith
Celebrated Yale historian tells Salon why the world that made the Great War is hauntingly much like our own
Beyond the foreign policy lies: Our compliant media and the truth about American exceptionalism
Patrick L. Smith
A new year begins, and America must resolve to do different & better. Here's a roadmap. It starts with clear eyes
Go West, young Han: How China and the new Silk Road threaten American imperialism
Pepe Escobar
High-speed railways are revolutionizing trade in Eurasia -- and could upset the global balance of power
Andrew O’Hehir’s top 10 movies of 2014
Andrew O'Hehir
Don't believe the haters! From a Texas family epic to class war on a train, it was an amazing year at the movies
World War I’s forgotten Christmas anniversary
Adam Hochschild
Dec. 25 marks the 100th anniversary of the Christmas Truce. Why is it only a footnote in our history books?
“The Nutcracker’s” disturbing origin story: Why this was once the world’s creepiest ballet
Ellen O'Connell
From pedophilic godfathers to gruesome seven-headed mice, the first versions of the classic ballet were — different
Paging Keri Russell: Russia, Cuba and the truth about Putin the U.S. media doesn’t want you to know
Patrick L. Smith
We are making mayhem in Russia, and reality is almost the opposite of what is being described in the press
Erick Erickson: President Obama “hates America”
Luke Brinker
The right-wing pundit wonders why Obama ruined a perfect country
“Conquest is for losers”: Paul Krugman on why nobody wins in modern warfare
Luke Brinker
As the Iraq and the crisis engulfing Putin's Russia show, warmongering is a lose-lose proposition
No, Putin doesn’t know how to fix Russia’s economy
Dan Peleschuk
In his latest marathon news conference, the Russian president again blames the West for his country's troubles
Falling oil prices worry Algeria
Karim Kebir, Paul Schemm
“The last nail in his coffin”: How America deluded itself about Cuba for 50 years
Simon Maloy
President Obama wants to abandon over half a century of bad Cuba policy -- but here's who's standing in the way
“Macho posturing, it turns out, makes for bad economies”: Paul Krugman slams Vladimir Putin
Luke Brinker
Russia's economic crisis shatters the myth of Putin as a strong, all-knowing leader
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