Tag: Barack Obama

Ear to the Ground: Congress Might Actually Make a Payroll Tax Deal Soon

Ear to the Ground: Independent Voters Swing to Obama

Reports: Contraception and the Cost of Culture Wars

Ear to the Ground: 10 States Get a Pass on ‘No Child Left Behind’

Reports: Elections Are for Suckers

Reports: America’s Pro-Choice Majority Speaks Out

Arts and Culture: And Now, This Presidential Appraisal From Scarlett Johansson

A/V Booth: Report Contradicts Obama on Drone Casualties

A/V Booth: Bill Moyers Makes Newt Gingrich Look Like an Idiot

Reports: Romney’s 1 Percent Nation Under God

Ear to the Ground: Catholic Churches Bring Birth Control Debate Into Sunday Services

Reports: Corporations Have No Use for Borders

Ear to the Ground: Hillary Clinton Says She Won’t Re-Up as Secretary of State

Cartoons: Running Mate

Cartoons: State of the Union

Reports: Obama’s Faux Populism Sounds Like Bill Clinton

Cartoons: Job Restriction

Reports: Obama’s Late Payment to Mortgage-Fraud Victims

Ear to the Ground: We Now Return to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming

Reports: Thank You for Standing Up

Cartoons: El Presidente

Reports: What Newt Learned From Nixon

Reports: Ron Paul and Our Selective Definition of Bigotry

A/V Booth: Obama Plays Defense With First Commercial

Reports: The Day the Internet Roared

Reports: Election Will Decide Which New Wars Will Be Waged

Reports: Why I’m Suing Barack Obama

Reports: Newt’s Venom Is Mitt’s Medicine

Reports: Moving Obama to Europe

Reports: The FLOTUS and the Twitterverse

Reports: There’s Hope for Republicans Yet

Reports: Guantanamo at 10: The Prisoner and the Prosecutor

Ear to the Ground: A Decade of Guantanamo

Reports: Karzai’s Bagram Demands Add Stress to U.S. Policy

Cartoons: It’s What’s on the Inside That Counts

A/V Booth: Did Mitt Romney Really Say He Likes Firing People?

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s New Chief of Staff Hails From Wall Street

Arts and Culture: Snoop Dogg Has Some Ideas About Legalizing Marijuana

Reports: America’s 5 Political Parties

Ear to the Ground: Romney: Obama’s a ‘Job Killer’

Ear to the Ground: Obama Signals a Shift in U.S. Military Strategy

Reports: Arms Dealer Obama Will Win by Default

Reports: Republicans Divided, Citizens United

Ear to the Ground: Obama Aims for Romney’s Weak Spots

Cartoons: Are You Experienced?

Reports: Extravagant Hopes of 2008 Haunt Obama in 2012

Reports: Could Ron Paul Be the Next Ralph Nader?

Ear to the Ground: Obama and Gay Rights: 2012 Edition

Cartoons: From Barack

Reports: Obama: The Conservative in 2012

Reports: Bradley Manning and the Fog of War

Reports: History Tells Us Not to Dismiss a Democratic Challenge to Obama

Reports: Do We Want Mitt Romney Answering the ‘3 A.M.’ Call?

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Leaving Iraq, for Better or Worse

A/V Booth: ‘Democracy Now!’: The Costs of the Iraq War

Ear to the Ground: Human Rights Watch Says Obama Will Go Down in History—and Not in a Good Way

Reports: Making Repression Our Business: The Pentagon’s Secret Training Missions in the Middle East

Reports: Climate Apartheid

Reports: Republican Reality Show Gets Weirder and Weirder

Reports: Government-Sponsored Sinner

Reports: Obama’s New Square Deal

Ear to the Ground: Pearl Harbor, 70 Years Later

Cartoons: The 2012 Presidential Dejection

Reports: Listen to the People, Not the Polluters

Ear to the Ground: Don’t Laud the Jobless Drop

Cartoons: Romney Ad

Reports: Why Does Obama Suddenly Want a War With China?

Ear to the Ground: Team Romney Spins Obama’s Words in First Ad

Reports: The Republicans Aren’t Funny, They’re Scary

Cartoons: Obama Turkey Pardon

Ear to the Ground: America Is Special, Vote for Me

Arts and Culture: Vatican Isn’t Buying What Benetton’s Selling With Pope-Imam Ad

A/V Booth: Robert Reich and Robert Scheer at Occupy L.A. Teach-In

Reports: Keystone XL: Ring Around the Rose Garden

Ear to the Ground: White House Tweaks Daley’s Job Description

Ear to the Ground: Sarkozy to Obama: Netanyahu Is a ‘Liar’

Reports: Too Big to Jail

Reports: Mitt Romney’s Big Bad Ideas for the Middle East

Ear to the Ground: Halloween and Radio Unreality

Reports: 3 Signs Anti-Wall Streeters Are Succeeding

Cartoons: Mission ... Accomplished

A/V Booth: The Language of Flowers: Herman Cain Campaign Edition

Reports: The Arab Spring Gets Messy, and Even Messier for the U.S.

A/V Booth: President Obama: ‘America’s War in Iraq Will Be Over’ by Year-End

Reports: No Hope for the Jobless if a Republican Wins

Cartoons: Err Obamacare

Arts and Culture: Team Obama’s Creative Crowd-Sourcing Fail

Reports: Paging Dr. Paul: The Sickness Is in the System

Reports: The Arc of the Moral Universe, From Memphis to Wall Street

Reports: Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party Movements More Alike Than Not

Ear to the Ground: Hillary Clinton Shoots Down 2016 Rumors

Reports: A Movement Too Big to Fail

Ear to the Ground: Obama Sending U.S. Troops to Uganda

Reports: If a Republican Were President

Reports: A New Bush Era or a Push Era?

Ear to the Ground: Wall Street Occupiers Make Gains

Arts and Culture: What Does It Mean to Be Black?

Reports: The Chinafication of America

Reports: American Government’s Indifference to Popular Protest

Ear to the Ground: ESPN Pulls Song After Hitler Analogy

Reports: The Men We Trusted to Lead Us

Reports: Class Warfare: Bring It On!

Reports: Why They Hate Warren Buffett

Reports: Afghanistan Is Obama’s Gordian Knot

Reports: Palestine Vote Showcases the Decline of American Power

Ear to the Ground: Fidel Castro Surfaces to Criticize Obama

Ear to the Ground: Obama: Investing in Public Schools Will Boost Economy

Reports: Two Heads of One Political Monster

Reports: 99 Percenters Occupy Wall Street

Reports: The Racial Divide Is There and Waiting

Reports: The Fight-Back Plan

Reports: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama’s Fall From Grace

Reports: One Betrayal Too Many

Reports: Lost Decade … Lost Generation?

Reports: How to Save the United States and Israel From Themselves

Ear to the Ground: North Carolina Considers Gay Marriage Amendment

Ear to the Ground: Tom Engelhardt: America, Tear Down ‘Freedom Tower’

Reports: What the Country Needs Is a New New Deal

Reports: How Little We Know About the Origins of 9/11

Reports: Flaming Hypocrisy

Reports: How Not to Commemorate 9/11

A/V Booth: Obama Labor Day Speech (Video and Transcript)

Ear to the Ground: Obama Previews Jobs Agenda

Reports: Libya: Here We Go Again

Cartoons: The Man From ‘Uncle’

Reports: Obama and Republicans: Champions of Smog

Reports: How to Honor the True Spirit of 9/11: First, Ignore Limbaugh

Reports: Deceit of Shakespearean Proportions

Reports: Jobs: Go Big or Go Home

Cartoons: Look for Signs

Reports: The Election March of the Trolls

Cartoons: Obama’s Bus

Reports: Race and the Church of Denialism

Reports: Amnesty for the Indefensible

Reports: D.C. Protests That Make Big Oil Quake

Cartoons: Cracked Window

Reports: How Obama Can Save His Presidency

Cartoons: Time for a Chat

A/V Booth: Obama ‘Disappointmints’ Stir Up a Controversy

Reports: The Biggest Little Hypocrite in Texas

Reports: President Bachmann: Another Mideast Messiah

Ear to the Ground: Obama Job Approval Sinks to a New Low

Reports: The New Old Obama

Reports: America Is a Spark Away From Riots of Its Own

Reports: Wisconsin: Conservatives Win, Liberals Gain

Reports: Another Bailout Joins the Goofball Economy

Reports: The Man Who Doesn’t Want to Be President

Cartoons: Obama Going Gray

Reports: The Bizarro FDR

Reports: Who Wants to Go Back to the ’50s?

Truthdig Podcast: Kucinich Says Obama Got the Deal He Wanted

A/V Booth: Kucinich Says Obama Got the Deal He Wanted

Cartoons: Obama Turns 50

Reports: The Recovery Is Dead, Long Live the Recovery

Reports: War, Debt and the President

Reports: The World Has Been Watching

Ear to the Ground: ‘A Terrible Deal’

Ear to the Ground: Debt Deal to Cut at Least $1 Trillion (Video)

Reports: Debt Madness Was Always About Killing Social Security

Reports: War Is a Racket

A/V Booth: Monday’s Obama-Boehner Debt Speeches, Minus the Grandstanding

Reports: Republican Goofery Isn’t Limited to the Tea Party

Reports: Sorry Elizabeth, Wall Street Said No

Reports: America’s Disappeared

Reports: If McCain Had Won

Reports: Soldier Suicides and the Politics of Presidential Condolences

Reports: Robin Hood in Reverse

Ear to the Ground: New Defense Secretary Spreads Bush’s Lies About Iraq

Reports: Carlos Montes and the Security State: A Cautionary Tale

Ear to the Ground: Obama Thinks Big, Republicans Balk in Deficit Talks

Ear to the Ground: Boehner Accepts Smaller Deficit Cuts

Ear to the Ground: Bernie Sanders Defends Social Security

Reports: The Tea Party and Goldman Sachs: A Love Story

Reports: Democracy Building Is Back in Fashion

Ear to the Ground: The Way Away From a Second Term

Cartoons: Debt Ceiling Negotiations

Reports: Gay Marriage: From Stonewall to Albany

Ear to the Ground: Obama Moves to Resolve Debt Deadlock

Reports: Why Does the War Go On?

Reports: Bad News for a Country Tired of War

Reports: Japan’s Meltdowns Demand New No-Nukes Thinking

Reports: Rigging the 2012 Election

A/V Booth: The Difference Between Rhetoric and Reality

Reports: Michele Bachmann Makes Dubya Look Good

Reports: Watch Your Back, Barack

A/V Booth: Romney Ad Strikes at Obama’s Sore Spot

Ear to the Ground: Obama Pitches Woo to Wall Street

Reports: No Justice in Kafka’s America

Cartoons: Running on Empty

Reports: Budget Problems, America? Try Ending Your Many Wars

Reports: War Is the New Normal

Reports: Hope and Resistance in Honduras

Ear to the Ground: General Passed Over for Giving Obama Advice

Arts and Culture: A Shakespeare Refresher for President Obama

A/V Booth: Netanyahu Brings Congress to Its Feet ... 29 Times

Reports: Libyan Intervention Exposes European Disunity

Ear to the Ground: Obama and Cameron Take a Page from Reagan and Thatcher

Ear to the Ground: Here Comes Tim Pawlenty

Reports: Why Liberal Sellouts Attack Prophets Like Cornel West

Ear to the Ground: Barack Hussein Obama Is Irish

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