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Reports: The Root of Madoff’s Evil

Reports: U.S. Troops Leave Iraqi Cities, but Unsettled Issues Remain

Reports: Iraq Has Another One of Its Famous Turning Points

Reports: A Settlement Stalemate With No End in Sight

Ear to the Ground: More Ex-Detainees Allege Abuse

Reports: Foreclosure Fiasco

Reports: Free Speech vs. Surveillance in the Digital Age

Reports: Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away

Reports: Daring to Dream

Reports: The War Between Civilizations That Never Was

Ear to the Ground: A Big Brother World

Ear to the Ground: Bush Gets Ballpark Honor

Reports: The American Empire Is Bankrupt

Reports: A Republican to Save Us

Reports: Being Obama Matters

Reports: Hold Your Applause

Ear to the Ground: Justice Dept. Lawyers Opposed Torture but Saw It as Legal

Arts and Culture: Susie Linfield on How to Think About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Reports: Whither the Sacred Campaign Promise?

Reports: Obama’s Cairo Speech: Significant, Eloquent—and Perhaps Just the Beginning

Reports: What Rhetoric Won’t Cure

Reports: Replace Petraeus

Reports: War Is Sin

Ear to the Ground: Bush Defends Torture

Reports: What Will Obama Say in Cairo?

Reports: Fessing Up Has Lost Its Shock Value

Reports: The West’s Reckless Approach to Relations With Russia

A/V Booth: Defending John Yoo

Reports: Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil

Reports: ‘Clean’ Energy and Poisoned Water

Reports: Obama and the Limits of Mastery

Reports: Packing Heat in the Parks

Reports: In Praise of Empathy

A/V Booth: Hannity and Ventura Step Into the Ring

Reports: A Truth Commission Beckons

Ear to the Ground: Torture on Obama’s Watch

Ear to the Ground: The Fierce Urgency of Whenever

Ear to the Ground: Again With the Military Tribunals

Reports: Obama’s Coalition of the Unwilling

Ear to the Ground: Obama Reneges on Torture Photo Release

Reports: Pelosi the Enabler

Ear to the Ground: Pelosi Sticks By Her Waterboarding Denial

Ear to the Ground: What Did Pelosi Know?

Ear to the Ground: Bush Lawyers Likely in the Clear

Reports: Democracy at Gunpoint Guarantees U.S. Defeat

Reports: British Government Gives Iraq Story a Final Spin

Arts and Culture: Lou Cannon on Ronald Reagan

Ear to the Ground: One If by Land, Two If by Flee

Reports: Disclosure of ‘Secrets’ in the ’70s Didn’t Destroy the Nation

Reports: Look to the Law—Not to Whether Torture ‘Works’

Ear to the Ground: Joe Wilson Wants Dick Cheney to Let It All Hang Out

Ear to the Ground: U.S. to Release More Torture Photos

Arts and Culture: Eve Pell on America’s Culture of Punishment

Reports: Torture Is a Crime, and Crimes Demand Prosecution

Reports: Reagan and Nixon Greeted Despots, Too

Ear to the Ground: Torture’s Paradigm Shift

Reports: Thievery Under the TARP

Reports: Torturers Should Be Punished

Reports: When Fascism Came to America

Ear to the Ground: Obama: Justice Could Prosecute Torture Lawyers

Reports: Bybee Must Go

Ear to the Ground: On Handshakes Past and Present

Reports: Where’s Rev. Wright When You Need Him?

Ear to the Ground: American Journalist Gets 8-Year Jail Sentence in Iran

Ear to the Ground: Obama Seeks ‘New Beginning’ With Cuba

A/V Booth: Armitage on Torture, ‘AWOL’ Congress

Ear to the Ground: A Decision Not to Prosecute

Reports: Don’t Underestimate the Tea-Baggers

Reports: Delusions of Omnipotence

Ear to the Ground: DoJ Releases Bush-Era Torture Memos

Reports: Tea and Ignorance

Reports: The Obama Doctrine

Reports: Armey’s Tea Party Army

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Opening More Commerce Channels With Cuba

Ear to the Ground: Clarence Thomas on Rights, Miraculous Dishwashers

Reports: Getting to Zero Starts With One Man

Reports: Torture Is a Crime That Must Be Punished

Arts and Culture: Susan Jacoby on William Goetzmann’s ‘Beyond the Revolution’

Reports: The Father of Guantanamo

Reports: Taliban, the Sequel

Ear to the Ground: Shoe-Thrower Catches a Break

Ear to the Ground: Iran Warms to Obama Overtures

Reports: It’s Now a ‘Soft War’ in Afghanistan, but It’s Still a Disaster

Arts and Culture: Troy Jollimore on the God Debate

Reports: America’s ‘Long War’ Will Be as Bloody and Pointless as Europe’s

Reports: Silence Meets Despair of Afghan Women

Reports: Boycotting Obama at Notre Dame Is Vulgar Zealotry

Reports: Where’s the Outrage Over Workers Getting the Shaft?

Reports: Obstruction of Justice

Reports: The Right’s Twisted Blame Game

Reports: Inside Bush’s War on Birth Control

Reports: Kill AIG Bonuses With a Tax? It’s a Lousy Idea

Ear to the Ground: Obama Looks for an ‘Exit Strategy’ in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Budget Deficit Hits $1.8 Trilly

Arts and Culture: Jacob Heilbrunn on Alger Hiss

Reports: What Is the Point of NATO?

Reports: The Geithner Problem

Ear to the Ground: Good News and Bad News for Alternative Lifestylists

Reports: It’s Time to Put the Clamps on Tobacco

Ear to the Ground: Secret Report Documents CIA Torture

Reports: A Big Moment for Volunteerism

Ear to the Ground: Bush Left Scooter ‘Hanging in the Wind,’ Says Cheney

Arts and Culture: Tony Platt on Wall Street Terror Attack

Reports: A Bad Fix Would Be No Fix

Reports: Barack Obama, Meet Team B

Ear to the Ground: Shoe-Thrower Gets 3 Years in Prison

Reports: Population Boom in the Freezer

Reports: A Changing Community Now Wants Softer U.S. Policy on Cuba

Reports: Was Helicopter Deal a Tool in Bush’s War Scam?

Truthdig Podcast: Was Helicopter Deal a Tool in Bush’s War Scam?

Ear to the Ground: Top U.S. General in Iraq Says U.S. Won’t Be Invited to Stick Around

Reports: Why Did So Few Americans Give a Damn?

Reports: Pelosi Has Reason to Smile

Reports: Finding Peace in the Culture Wars

Ear to the Ground: Rove, Miers to Testify at Last

Reports: Nine Secret Bush-Era Documents Released

Ear to the Ground: Secret Bush Memos Gave President Even More Power

Reports: America’s New Trajectory

Reports: It’s Obama’s War Now

Reports: Redistributionist, and That’s Just Fine

Reports: Bill Redux?

Reports: Toxins ’R’ Us

Reports: A War Fought in Ignorance

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Thought About Ditching the GOP

Reports: Turn a Harsh Light Onto the Banks

Reports: A Choice Between Peace and Peril

Reports: Good News for the Taliban

Reports: Good Money After Bad

Reports: Avoiding Another Cold War

Reports: Carmaker, Banker, Broker ...

Reports: Where’s the Top Gun?

Reports: Stronger, Please, Mr. President

Reports: Obama’s Afghan Trap

Ear to the Ground: Biden Cautious, Conciliatory in Message to Russia

Reports: A Team of Zombies

Reports: Howard Dean Should Have Been Obama’s Pick All Along

Ear to the Ground: Obama Takes Responsibility for Nominee Mess

Reports: Ethical Malpractice

Reports: America Faces the Music in Davos

Ear to the Ground: Army Suicide Rate Highest in Decades

Reports: Making Him Do It

Reports: Let the Limbaughs Whine

Ear to the Ground: Dear Mr. Ahmadinejad

Reports: Stimulus Brings on a Family Feud

Reports: Obama’s Stuck Playing the Same Lame Game

Ear to the Ground: Gates Changes Afghanistan Tune

Reports: Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail

Reports: NATO: Dead Man Walking

Reports: Civilian Courts Can Deal With Terrorism Cases

Cartoons: Too Much Information

Reports: With Gaza, Journalists Fail Again

Reports: Partisan Politics Wait in the Wings

Reports: Obama’s Salvage Operation

Reports: Obama Must Halt America’s Moral Decline

A/V Booth: Whistle-Blower: Bush’s NSA Spied on ‘All Americans’

Cartoons: The Bush Years

Cartoons: In Box

Reports: Faith Amid the Ruins of Faith

Reports: The Downside of Bipartisanship

Reports: Defining ‘Bipartisan’ in a New Era

Reports: To Each His Own Obama

Ear to the Ground: Worth a Thousand Words

Ear to the Ground: Obama Puts Gitmo Trials on Hold

Ear to the Ground: Good Riddance

Ear to the Ground: The President of the United States

Reports: It’s Over—and Not a Moment Too Soon

Reports: What Can Obama Learn From Bush?

Ear to the Ground: Obama Serves, Bush Works the Phones

Reports: Peace Is in the Eye of the Beholder

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Bye-Bye Bush; Bailout Mania

Ear to the Ground: Holder States the Obvious

Ear to the Ground: Bank of America, Literally

Reports: Fool Me Once

Reports: Who’s in Charge—Obama, the Pentagon or Israel?

Ear to the Ground: British Foreign Secretary Criticizes ‘War on Terror’

Reports: The Shame Beneath Inaugural Hoopla

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Fails in Human Rights Role

Cartoons: Last Press Conference

Cartoons: Exit Strategy

Ear to the Ground: Bush’s Politics-First Justice Department Has a New Poster Boy

Ear to the Ground: Obama Threatens to Use Veto Against Bailout Dissent

Reports: The Drama of Reciprocal Self-Destruction

Reports: The Afghan Scam

Reports: Bush’s Short View of History

Ear to the Ground: Obama Says He’ll Spend Some Bailout Money on Homeowners

A/V Booth: Obama on Gaza, Investigating Bush Abuses and More

Reports: Learning From Clinton’s Mistakes

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’: Joe Plumbs the Middle East

Reports: Should the Torturers Go on Trial?

Arts and Culture: Bollywood Does Bush

Reports: Obama Will Back Israel

Reports: Beware, Mr. Obama, of Tax-Cut Seduction

Reports: Yukking It Up at the Blago Show

Reports: Navel-Gazing in the Grand Old Party

Ear to the Ground: Gauging Obama’s Silence on Gaza

Arts and Culture: It’s ‘Laura’—‘Mrs. Bush’ if You’re Nasty

Cartoons: Pull and Pray

Reports: FDR Prolonged the Depression? Really?

Reports: Believe It or Not, 2008 Was Relatively Nonviolent

Reports: Let’s Pledge to Stop Being Stupid About Teen Sex

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