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Get the names right
King Kaufman
NBC's lazy approach to pronunciation isn't limited to non-American athletes. The Peacock even butchers "Beijing."
Salon Radio: Jane Hamsher
Glenn Greenwald
What are the short-term and longer-term plans for Accountability Now and Strange Bedfellows?
Update: Cyberattacks against Georgia
Evan Ratliff
Many experts think that the Russian government may not be directly involved.
McCain sends pals to war
Mike Madden
Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham are off to save Georgia, on John McCain's orders.
Putin’s war enablers: Bush and Cheney
Juan Cole
Russia's escalating war on Georgia reveals the consequences of the Bush administration's long assault on the international rule of law.
The strange smile of George W. Bush
Gary Kamiya
Bush looked weirder than he ever has during his Bob Costas interview -- but he made more sense. Too bad it's too late.
How did Team USA gymnastics get so good?
Jennifer Sey
What happened since the mid-1970s that turned the women's gymnastics program into the tour de force it has become? The Karolyis happened.
Chaos in the Caucasus
Nathalie Gorman
An expert on Russian politics talks about what's behind the military assault on Georgia, and how the U.S. and Europe failed to prevent it.
Cyberwar rages on in Georgia
Evan Ratliff
Government sites under attack from Russian hackers move to U.S.-based servers, including Atlanta's Tulip Systems.
How cancer survivors think about the Edwards scandal
Joan Walsh
I can't judge Elizabeth Edwards' decision to campaign passionately for her husband after reading this post.
“There was so much blood spilled”
John Hudson
A Russian invasion has left besieged Georgians angry at their government -- and at the Bush administration -- for failing to defend them.
Putin’s dangerous power politics
Jörg Himmelreich
As the Russian prime minister escalates a "hot war" in the Caucasus, will Europe and the U.S. intervene?
Salon Radio: Professor Charles King on Russia/Georgia
Glenn Greenwald
A leading expert on the former Soviet republics disputes the dominant American media narrative of this conflict.
War erupts in the Caucasus
Der Spiegel staff
As Russian planes and tanks clash with Georgian forces, Washington has even more to worry about in a crucial oil region.
Special delivery: Sexual harassment stork!
Tracy Clark-Flory
A Russian judge explains where babies come from.
Empires on the rise
Andrew Leonard
China and India battle for a London-based energy company pumping oil in Siberia and Kazakhstan. That's globalization, folks.
The man who shook the Kremlin
Alexander Nazaryan
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died this week, was instrumental in bringing the Soviet Union to its knees, and he never wavered from his belief in a writer's moral responsibility to truth and beauty.
Why Exxon desperately wants more offshore drilling
Andrew Leonard
Despite record profits, again, Exxon's production of crude oil is down, again. But no worries: Senate Republicans are on the job.
Why Bush folded on Iran
Juan Cole
Reality, of the military and petroleum-based variety, forced the administration to change course. Now Bush sounds like Obama.
The Washington Post editorial page’s latest rule of law sermon
Glenn Greenwald
Those who have sanctioned some of the most extreme acts of illegality and human rights abuses continue to condemn other countries for less egregious acts.
The parade of “shrill, unserious extremists” on display at today’s impeachment hearings
Glenn Greenwald
In the Beltway world, those who believe in open government and accountability for lawbreaking by political leaders are demonized and marginalized.
“This city knows the dream of freedom”
Salon Staff
In Berlin, Barack Obama recounts the epic struggle of the Cold War and calls for Europe and America to join in tearing down the "new walls" dividing the world.
Tom Friedman doesn’t understand why America is unpopular in the world
Glenn Greenwald
The same foreign policy expert who justified the attack on Iraq with "Suck. On. This" scornfully dismisses worldwide discontent with the U.S.
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