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Reports: Clint, Rick and the Limits of Pessimism

Ear to the Ground: State Department to Downsize Massive Baghdad Embassy

Reports: Europe Decides Not to Play America’s Game

Reports: The GOP’s Anti-Gingrich Campaign

Reports: Corporations Have No Use for Borders

Reports: Election Will Decide Which New Wars Will Be Waged

Reports: Why I’m Suing Barack Obama

Reports: Obama’s Mission Accomplished Moment?

Reports: Guantanamo at 10: The Prisoner and the Prosecutor

Ear to the Ground: A Decade of Guantanamo

Ear to the Ground: Musharraf Hopes for a Pakistan Comeback

Reports: Did Reagan Raise Taxes? Let GOP Candidates Answer

Reports: Could Ron Paul Be the Next Ralph Nader?

Reports: On to the Next ‘Bubble Fantasy’

Reports: There Goes the Republic

Reports: Iran: A Dangerous Game

Reports: Obama Abroad: Democratic Realism

Reports: Shades of Mercy: Presidential Forgiveness Heavily Favors Whites

Reports: New ‘Mature’ Newt Is Just Same Old Gingrich

A/V Booth: The Data Behind the Occupy Movement

Reports: The GOP’s Message Problem

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

Truthdig Podcast: Manarchy!

A/V Booth: Manarchy!

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

Cartoons: Mission ... Accomplished

Reports: How the Rich Subverted the Legal System

Reports: The Occupy Windfall

Reports: The Tax Hikes That Republicans Love

Reports: Flavor of the Week

Reports: If a Republican Were President

Reports: A New Bush Era or a Push Era?

Reports: The Chinafication of America

Reports: The Men We Trusted to Lead Us

Ear to the Ground: What Hugo Chavez Is Up To

Reports: Suleiman’s Travels

Reports: Palestine Vote Showcases the Decline of American Power

Ear to the Ground: Obama Delivered Bunker-Buster Bombs to Israel

Reports: The Racial Divide Is There and Waiting

Reports: The Fight-Back Plan

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

A/V Booth: Noam Chomsky on 9/11, Jobs and Palestinian Statehood

Ear to the Ground: North Carolina Considers Gay Marriage Amendment

Ear to the Ground: Scenes From the 10th Anniversary of 9/11

Reports: Recognize That It’s Over

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

Reports: Does Karl Rove Know Something We Don’t?

Reports: Sept. 11 and ‘A New Birth of Freedom’

Ear to the Ground: Chomsky 10 Years After 9/11

Reports: How Not to Commemorate 9/11

Reports: 9/11 Victim 0001: Father Mychal’s Message

Reports: Bin Laden’s Unintended Legacy

Ear to the Ground: ‘The Price of 9/11’

Ear to the Ground: The Problem With the Republicans

Reports: Libya: Here We Go Again

Reports: Obama and Republicans: Champions of Smog

Ear to the Ground: Obama Chokes on Clean Air Rule

Reports: Republicans Put Wars Ahead of People

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

Reports: Always Some Bushie There to Remind Us

Reports: Deceit of Shakespearean Proportions

Reports: Cheney, Rumsfeld and the Dark Art of Propaganda

Arts and Culture: British Alt Rocker: Kids, It’s Time to Get Political

Reports: Obama Can’t Win for Winning

Ear to the Ground: Hurricane Katrina Pain Index 2011

Reports: Amnesty for the Indefensible

Reports: Perry’s Big Mouth Is Giving Republicans Headaches

Reports: Taking the Justice Out of the Justice System

Reports: The Biggest Little Hypocrite in Texas

Reports: President Bachmann: Another Mideast Messiah

Reports: Dispatches From Cairo: Ramadan, Revolution and Rumors

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

Ear to the Ground: Obama Guts No Child Left Behind

Reports: A Downgrade’s GOP Fingerprints

Ear to the Ground: Rick Perry to Run for President Starting This Weekend

Reports: The Bizarro FDR

Reports: The Wrong Problem ‘Solved’

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

Reports: The Recovery Is Dead, Long Live the Recovery

Reports: War, Debt and the President

Reports: Debt Madness Was Always About Killing Social Security

Reports: War Is a Racket

Reports: Norway Attacks and Europe’s Failed Immigration Policies

Reports: Sorry Elizabeth, Wall Street Said No

Reports: Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Eat Humble Pie

Reports: America’s Disappeared

Ear to the Ground: Human Rights Watch: Prosecute the Bush War Criminals

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

Reports: Making a Progressive Case

Reports: Democracy Building Is Back in Fashion

Ear to the Ground: The Drawdown That Wasn’t

Reports: Obama and the Agony of Prudence

Truthdig Podcast: One-State Solution

A/V Booth: One-State Solution

Reports: This Hero Didn’t Stand a Chance

Reports: Promoting Militarism While Hiding Bloodshed

Ear to the Ground: Ex-Spy Says Bush White House Wanted to ‘Get’ Juan Cole

Reports: Michele Bachmann Makes Dubya Look Good

Ear to the Ground: Where Are They Now: Corporate Democrat Edition

Ear to the Ground: Obama Nearly Triples Bagram Detainee Population

Reports: Playing With Default

Reports: No Need to Demagogue the Ryan Plan

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

Reports: Will Symbols Trump Logic?

Reports: One Lawman With the Guts to Go After Wall Street

Reports: The Return of the Real McCain

A/V Booth: NYU’s Studio 20 Releases ‘The Fracking Song’

Arts and Culture: Debating Common Sense

Reports: The High Cost of Cheap War

Reports: Tough Enough

Cartoons: Spite Makes Right

Ear to the Ground: Bush in Hiding? W. Declines Ground Zero Visit

Ear to the Ground: Gray Lady Catches Heat for Torture Terminology

Ear to the Ground: How Bin Laden Got Away in 2001

Cartoons: Tax the Rich

Reports: Cracking the 2012 Code

Ear to the Ground: British Government Memos Tie Iraq Invasion to Big Oil

Ear to the Ground: Obama Runs Into Signing Statements Firestorm

Reports: Needed: A Better Ruling Class

Reports: Lines in the Sand

Reports: What Stanley McChrystal Did to Pat Tillman’s Family

Reports: The End of Progressive Government?

Reports: Truth About a False Choice

Reports: The Collapse of Globalization

Arts and Culture: Bradley Manning Treatment Reveals Continued Government Complicity in Torture

Reports: Why the GOP Is Obsessed With ‘Leadership’

Reports: Aristide’s Return to Haiti: A Long Night’s Journey Into Day

Reports: Why We Loved David Broder

Reports: A Warning to the World

Reports: American Ignorance Keeps American Power in Check

Reports: People Power vs. Washington

Reports: The ’80s Origins of Today’s Anti-Muslim Bigotry

Reports: When America Left Arab Rebels to the Slaughter

Reports: Western Intervention in Libya Should Not Fly

Reports: Lifting the Heavy Thumb

Reports: New Regimes Have Reason to Resent America

Reports: Ahmadinejad Promises Democratic Reforms in Egypt

Arts and Culture: How the Democrats Killed Roosevelt’s Dream of the Affordable Home

Reports: Obama and the Failure of the Deficit Hawks

Reports: Obama’s Budget: Freezing the Poor

Reports: Fear Not the Muslim Brotherhood Boogeyman

Reports: Can Obama Be Luke Skywalker?

Reports: The Super Bowl of Socialism

Ear to the Ground: Americans Pay Less in Taxes Under Obama Than Under Bush

Ear to the Ground: Bush Cancels Trip Over Fear of Arrest

Reports: The Right Smears ElBaradei

Reports: Saad’s Revolution

Reports: Cow Most Sacred: Why Military Spending Remains Untouchable

Reports: Obfuscating Unemployment

Ear to the Ground: No More Orange Alerts

Reports: If Only We Had More Sarge Shrivers

Ear to the Ground: Justice Dept. Wants Providers to Retain Internet Data

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Condemns Tyranny While Torturing Bradley Manning

Reports: Tucson, Juarez and an Assault Weapons Ban

Reports: Health Care and the New Civility

Reports: How Many Bullets Do You Need?

Reports: Even Lost Wars Make Corporations Rich

Reports: Wrong Again, Sen. Graham

Ear to the Ground: When Conservatives Celebrate Terrorists

Reports: ‘The Left Has Nowhere to Go’

Ear to the Ground: Pakistani Disappearances: C’mon Guys

Reports: Will Liberals Learn From Adversity?

Ear to the Ground: Americans Admire Glenn Beck More Than the Dalai Lama

Ear to the Ground: Good News for the Places Where the Wild Things Are

Reports: Sept. 11 Heroes Disdained on the Right

Reports: Foreign Policy Review Suggests a Losing Effort

Reports: President Obama’s Christmas Gift to AT&T (and Comcast and Verizon)

Ear to the Ground: Obama: Tax-Cut Deal Helps the Middle Class

Ear to the Ground: Congress Passes Obama-Bush Tax Cuts for the Wealthy

Reports: Labels Aren’t the Problem

Reports: Democracy: Made in China

Ear to the Ground: Tax Cuts According to Barbara Boxer

Reports: In Latest Compromise, Obama Agrees He Is a Muslim

Reports: The Specter Haunting Obama

Reports: Hold Your Nose and Vote ‘Aye’

Ear to the Ground: Angry House Dems Reject Bush-Obama Tax Cuts

Reports: Leaks Disclose Complicated U.S. Strategy

Reports: Opportunity in a Tax Deal

A/V Booth: Obama Attempts to Justify Tax-Cut Compromise

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Tax Cave Is Worse Than Expected

Reports: Can Democrats ‘Up Their Game’?

Reports: The Grinch Who Stole Washington

Reports: Where Is Obama Going?

Reports: WikiLeaks and the End of U.S. ‘Diplomacy’

Reports: Tough Times for Superpowers

Ear to the Ground: The Pentagon Gets What It Wants

Reports: Blaming Obama’s America First

Reports: Calling the Bluff on Deficits

Reports: 10 (Fake) Plagiarized Lines From Bush’s Book

Cartoons: Lame Duck

Reports: Look Who’s the Decider Now

Ear to the Ground: The Warning Cell Phone Makers Keep Hidden

Reports: The Earmark Sideshow

Reports: Saying Goodbye to Compassionate Conservatism

Reports: La Vie en Denial

Reports: Runaway Military: A Raw Deal at Half the Price

Reports: The Cowardice of America at War

Cartoons: Bush Book

Reports: A Lame and Spineless Duck?

Reports: Somali Pirates Refuse to Board Carnival Cruise Ships

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