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Worst déjà vu ever: Why taxpayers could be bailing out Wall Street again!

David Dayen
If a cyberattack were to target the nation’s financial centers, guess who may be on the hook to cover their losses
(AP/Jaber al-Helo)

ISIS is America’s grotesque Middle Eastern legacy

Tom Engelhardt
The origins of the Sunni jihadist group can all be traced to the fallout of our ill-conceived Global War on Terror
In this Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014 photo, a juvenile lobster is returned to the water by scientist Diane Cowan during a survey of the lobster population on the shore of Friendship Long Island, Maine. Scientists say the Gulf of Maine is warming faster than more than 99 percent of the world’s oceans. The temperature rise is prompting fears about the future of one of the Atlantic's most unusual ecosystems and the industries it supports. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) (AP)

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A mother and child lie on the bed in the bomb shelter in Petrovskiy district, in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Monday Sept. 1, 2014. The Petrovskiy district of Donetsk is currently a frontline and one of the districts which has suffered the most from the artillery fights between Ukrainian army and Pro-Pussian rebels. (AP Photo/Mstislav Chernov) (AP)

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FILE - This July 15, 2013 file photo shows a sign for Wall Street outside the New York Stock Exchange, in New York. European and Asian stock markets were subdued Friday, Aug. 29, 2014, after data showed Japan's economy is struggling to recover from a sales tax hike and that inflation in the eurozone slipped again, a sign the recovery remains weak. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) (AP)

US stocks edge higher in early trading

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Vladimir Putin goes rogue: Ukraine, NATO, nuclear weapons — and a very dangerous new reality

Jeffrey Tayler
Post-Cold War era's over. Dealing with Putin means learning to talk to him, and respecting some legitimate concerns
A casket containing the body of Michael Brown is wheeled out Monday, Aug. 25, 2014, at Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis. Hundreds of people gathered to say goodbye to Brown, who was shot and killed by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer on Aug. 9. (AP Photo/New York Times, Richard Perry, Pool) (AP)

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Jesse accepts the award for Video of the Year from Jimmy Fallon on behalf of Miley Cyrus at the MTV Video Music Awards, Aug. 24, 2014. (AP/Chris Pizzello)

Miley Cyrus’ homelessness call-to-arms proves she’s the next Madonna

Daniel D'Addario
Only a true star can keep our attention as well as Miley did, with a stunt both goofily earnest and canny
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Police wearing riot gear stand at a post as they wait for a crowd to disperse Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. (AP/Jeff Roberson)

They are no longer police: Why Ferguson reminds us that America is not exceptional

Josh Appelbaum
The police are no longer here to protect us. They are a hyper-militarized militia that provokes and antagonizes
A man bends down in prayer as police try to disperse a small group of protesters Monday, Aug. 18, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. The Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown by police has touched off rancorous protests in Ferguson, a St. Louis suburb where police have used riot gear and tear gas. Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the National Guard to help restore order Monday, while lifting a midnight-to-5 a.m. curfew that had been in place for two days. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) (AP)

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Paul Krugman (AP/Lai Seng Sin)

Paul Krugman on the “scary prospects” of more war

Elias Isquith
The Times columnist worries that, despite globalization making it irrational, countries may increasingly go to war
Police wait to advance after tear gas was used to disperse a crowd Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014, druing a protest for Michael Brown, who was killed by a police officer last Saturday in Ferguson, Mo. As night fell Sunday in Ferguson, another peaceful protest quickly deteriorated after marchers pushed toward one end of a street. Police attempted to push them back by firing tear gas and shouting over a bullhorn that the protest was no longer peaceful. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) (AP)

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Pro-Russian rebels ride on a truck in the town of Krasnodon, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014. A column of several dozen heavy vehicles, including tanks and at least one rocket launcher, rolled through rebel-held territory on Sunday.(AP Photo/Sergei Grits) (AP)

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Pope Francis is greeted by the faithful upon his arrival for the Mass of Assumption of Mary at a stadium in Daejeon, south of Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, Pool) (Lee Jin-man)

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Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community look for clothes to wear among items provided by a charity organization at the Nowruz camp, in Derike, Syria, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. In the camps here, Iraqi refugees have new heroes: Syrian Kurdish fighters who battled militants to carve an escape route to tens of thousands trapped on a mountaintop. While the U.S. and Iraqi militaries dropped food and water to the starving members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority, the Kurds took it on themselves to rescue them, a sign of how Syria’s Kurds, like Iraq’s, are using the region’s conflicts to establish their own rule. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed) (AP)

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Report: Obama had strong words for GOP critic of Syria policy

Elias Isquith
The Daily Beast claims the president told an angry Republican senator that his argument was ... not great

The planet’s 10 most (and least) peaceful countries

Allegra Kirkland
A new report from the Institute for Economics and Peace ranks 162 nations by violence and political instability
(Reuters/Jason Reed)

Hillary’s break from Obama: Here’s what it really means (hint: She’s still a hawk)

Jim Newell
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama still have different approaches to foreign policy. Sound the alarms!
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Hillary Clinton blames rise of ISIS on Obama “failure” to intervene in Syria civil war

Elias Isquith
The likely future presidential candidate also argues criticism of Israeli actions in Gaza stem from anti-Semitism
FILE - This July 23, 2014, file photo shows Vice President Joe Biden as he speaks on voting rights at the NAACP annual convention in Las Vegas. The Associated Press has tracked the movements and machinations of more than a dozen prospective presidential candidates including Vice President Biden. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) (AP)

See how they run: The 2016 presidential checklist

Calvin Woodward
Southern Sudanese boys take shelter from afternoon rains that disrupted rehearsal for independence day celebrations in the capital city of Juba on Monday, July 4, 2011. (AP/Pete Muller)

Global aid operations are just one catastrophe away from total collapse

Nick Turse
America’s African experiment in nation building has its limits, and we're this close to flying over the edge
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The shocking discovery about evangelical Christianity that I made after becoming a father

Bill Moeller
I used to be a staunch evangelical. Then I adopted a child and realized how much I had suffered
A NATO soldier opens fire in an apparent warning shot in the vicinity of journalists near the main gate of Camp Qargha, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. Earlier in the day, a man dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire on foreign troops at the military base, killing a U.S. two-star general and wounding others, among them a German brigadier general and a number of Americans troops, authorities said. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini) (AP)

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