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Reports: America Performs Its Familiar Role of Propping Up a Dictator

Reports: Republicans vs. the Palinites

Reports: What Option for Afghan Women?

Reports: The GOP’s Toxic Tea Party

Ear to the Ground: Where Was Obama When Maine Needed Him?

Reports: Not Right Wing but Still Angry

Ear to the Ground: Karzai Told to Fight Corruption; Abdullah Supporters Told to Keep It Civil

Reports: McGovern: Get Out of Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Maine Repeals Gay Marriage

Reports: Keeping Afghanistan Safe From Democracy

Reports: 2009 Elections Don’t Foretell a Thing

Ear to the Ground: Bloomberg’s In for Third Term as NYC Mayor

Ear to the Ground: GOP Scores a Win in Virginia Governor’s Race

Reports: The Best Justice That Money Can Buy

Reports: A Record You Can Believe In

Ear to the Ground: Without an Opponent, Karzai Declared Winner

Reports: Opium, Rape and the American Way

Ear to the Ground: New York 3-Way Gets Even More Interesting

A/V Booth: Obama Will Deal With Karzai

Reports: The Battle to Define the New Health Care System

Reports: McChrystal Doesn’t Get It—Does Obama?

Reports: Hug Obama, Find the Moderates

Ear to the Ground: Taliban Target U.N. Workers in Deadly Kabul Attack

Ear to the Ground: Karzai, Abdullah at Odds About Afghan Election Official

Reports: End of the Line for a Political Legend?

A/V Booth: Afghanistan: Fraud, Opium and Taliban

A/V Booth: Afghanistan Prepares for Election Runoff

Ear to the Ground: Karzai Gives In, Agrees to Runoff

Cartoons: Purple Finger

Reports: Obama Can’t Lose the Young

Reports: When Did Olympia Snowe Become Queen of America?

Reports: With Al-Qaida Fading, Why Expand the Afghan War?

Reports: Looking for a Middle Class

Ear to the Ground: The Poor Will Have to Wait for Health Care Help

Reports: Stimulation Without the S-Word

Reports: War Kills Off Great Reform Movements

Ear to the Ground: Ex-U.N. Official Slams Afghan Elections

Arts and Culture: Capitalism Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

Reports: In Europe, the Left Has Run Out of Gas

Reports: Massachusetts Looks for Life After Teddy

Reports: Let Blue Dogs Face the Music

Ear to the Ground: Protest Returns to Iran

Ear to the Ground: Massachusetts Close to Replacing Kennedy With a Temp

Reports: Testing the Obama Effect

Ear to the Ground: Bill Clinton Picks a Horse in Cali Governor Race

Ear to the Ground: Over 1M Afghan Election Votes May Be Fraudulent

Ear to the Ground: Santorum Wants to Be President, Has a Poo Problem

Ear to the Ground: 6 Iranians on Trial for Postelection Protests

Reports: No Way to Treat a President

Reports: Full Text of the President’s Speech to Congress

Ear to the Ground: Getting a Read on Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Afghans React to Vote Fraud

Reports: The United States of Plutocracy

Ear to the Ground: Karzai Closes In, but U.N. Orders Recounts

Ear to the Ground: Karzai: Fraud Happens in a Young Democracy

Reports: Progressives Pay the Price for Confusing a Party With a Movement

Reports: Cheney Plays to His Crowd

Reports: Health Care’s Senior Moments

Ear to the Ground: Iraqi Death Toll Hits 13-Month High in August

Ear to the Ground: ‘Death With Dignity’ for the Public Option?

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Intelligence Chief Among 23 Killed in Taliban Suicide Attack

Reports: Will Japan’s New Leader Maintain His Country’s Fealty to Washington?

Ear to the Ground: Top U.S. General Calls for Strategy Change in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Election ‘Revolution’ Swings Japan to the Left

Ear to the Ground: Report: U.S. Envoy and Afghan President in Election Meltdown

Ear to the Ground: Yet Another Blast Shakes Kandahar

A/V Booth: Ted Kennedy in Pictures

Ear to the Ground: Karzai Is the Winner, According to Key Karzai Cabinet Member

Ear to the Ground: Honduras Headache Won’t Go Away

Reports: Obama’s Invisible Achievement

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Election Dogged by Fraud Claims

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Afghan Election, Blackwater’s Role

Reports: Missing: Democrats’ Passion

Reports: Reality Is Its Own Caricature for U.S. in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Truthdig Podcast: Chris Hedges on Health Care, War and the New Racism

Ear to the Ground: Ridge: Bushies Manipulated Terror Threat System

Ear to the Ground: Polls Close in Afghanistan

Reports: Obama’s Enforcer: Not Really Tough Enough

Ear to the Ground: Afghan News Outlets to Be Censored on Election Day

Reports: Phantom of the Health Care Soap Opera

Ear to the Ground: Report: Pre-Election Corruption Crops Up in Afghanistan

Reports: Only Time Can Heal Some Iraqi Wounds

Ear to the Ground: Taliban Issues Threat Before Afghan Election

Ear to the Ground: Gay Rights Group Puts Marriage Fight on Hold

Reports: What Are the Birthers Really After?

Ear to the Ground: Iran Opposition Alleges Torture

Reports: It’s Time for the U.S. to Declare Victory and Go Home

Reports: ‘Colorful’ Leaders Could Learn From Boring Brown

Reports: The Attack of the 1-Percenters

Reports: U.S. Foreign Wars Not Going According to Plan

Reports: Support Iran Protesters Without Meddling

Ear to the Ground: Iranians Still Split Over Election

Ear to the Ground: So Long, Roland Burris?

Ear to the Ground: Protesters Venture Out in Tehran

Reports: Party of Franken, Party of Palin

Reports: The Age of Paine

Reports: Iraq Has Another One of Its Famous Turning Points

Reports: Journalism in the Twitter Era

Reports: Iran’s Regime Reveals Its Brutality

A/V Booth: Obama ‘Strongly Condemns’ Iran Crackdown

Ear to the Ground: Obama Comes Closer to Meddling

Ear to the Ground: Iran Election Watchdog Stands by Results

Reports: Symbols Are Not Enough to Win This Battle

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court Surprises With Civil Rights Decision

Reports: Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away

Ear to the Ground: Iran Arrests Hundreds, Admits Vote Errors

Cartoons: Friendly Advice

Reports: Obama’s Iran Dilemma

Ear to the Ground: 10 Reported Killed in Streets of Tehran

Ear to the Ground: And the Ayatollah Says ...

Cartoons: More Than the Sum of 140 Characters

Cartoons: Without an Ass

Cartoons: Twitter and Iran

Ear to the Ground: Obama Won’t ‘Meddle’ in Iran

Reports: Learning to Live With the Devil We Know

Ear to the Ground: Iran to Recount Disputed Votes

Cartoons: Iran Election [Revised]

Ear to the Ground: Shots Fired at Iranian Election Protests

Ear to the Ground: Ahmadinejad Wins Dubious Election

Reports: All Politics, and Change, Is Still Local

Reports: The Justice Business

Ear to the Ground: Ahmadinejad Blames Hitler and Israelis for Rivals’ Success

Reports: America’s Foreign Policy Phobias Are Overblown

Ear to the Ground: Two Elections in the World Spotlight

Reports: Whither the Sacred Campaign Promise?

Reports: America’s Changing Moral Universe

Reports: News Flash: Populism Is Popular

Reports: When Fascism Came to America

Ear to the Ground: Report: Rep. Harman Mixed Up With AIPAC, Espionage and Alberto Gonzales

A/V Booth: The World’s Largest Democracy in Action

Reports: Tea and Ignorance

Reports: Armey’s Tea Party Army

Ear to the Ground: They Don’t Build Democracies Like They Used To

Ear to the Ground: Norm Coleman Is the Energizer Bunny of Losers

Reports: Israel’s Racist in Chief

Arts and Culture: Obama Flick Coming to a Theater Near You

Ear to the Ground: Mitt Romney’s Housing Crisis

Ear to the Ground: Obama Shows the Troops Some Love

Ear to the Ground: N.Y. Race Too Close to Call

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

Arts and Culture: NPR Is Booming

Reports: Past the Point of No Return

Ear to the Ground: No More Term Limits for Venezuela’s Chavez

Ear to the Ground: Tsvangirai to World: ‘Get Over’ Mugabe

Reports: Israel’s Lose-Lose Election

Reports: Stronger, Please, Mr. President

Ear to the Ground: Israel Votes in a Bubble

Reports: The Real Obama

Reports: Dear Wall Street

Ear to the Ground: Mugabe Learns How to Share ... Maybe

Reports: Making Him Do It

Ear to the Ground: No They Can’t

Reports: The Gulf Between Hope and Change

Reports: The Downside of Bipartisanship

Reports: Defining ‘Bipartisan’ in a New Era

Reports: A Long Train Ride

Reports: Giving Obama the Benefit of the Doubt

Reports: What Can Obama Learn From Bush?

Reports: Peace Is in the Eye of the Beholder

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’ on Sarah Palin, AKA ‘Blamey Whinehouse’

Reports: One for the Workers

Reports: Now Is No Time for Phony Thrift

Reports: Yukking It Up at the Blago Show

Ear to the Ground: Senator Franken, at Last?

Reports: Democrats Must Not Get Into Blagojevich’s Game

Reports: Believe It or Not, 2008 Was Relatively Nonviolent

Reports: The 21st Century Is Finally Here, a Bit Behind Schedule

Ear to the Ground: Blagojevich Gets Blagoje-Ditched

A/V Booth: Conspiracy Alert: Web Expert’s Plane Crash Probed

Ear to the Ground: There’s Hope for Franken Yet

Reports: Should She Be Sen. Kennedy?

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’: Mac Is Back

Reports: Crippling the Auto Union Is Just a Warm-Up

Reports: There May Be GOP Gold in the Blago Scandal

Ear to the Ground: In Illinois, They Love Blagojevich Not

Reports: Rep. Dennis Kucinich on His Battle With the Banks

Reports: Settlement Extremists Threaten Israel’s Moral Substance

Reports: Redrawing the Political Map

Ear to the Ground: A Nation Turns Its Desperate Eyes to Obama

Ear to the Ground: Mugabe’s Last Stand?

Reports: Those Other Elections

Ear to the Ground: The High Cost of Hope

Ear to the Ground: Minnesota Race Continues to Perplex

Ear to the Ground: Saxby Succeeds in Georgia

Ear to the Ground: Palin Milks Georgia Runoff

A/V Booth: Saxby Chambliss Needs New PR Team

Reports: The Peril and Promise of Interesting Times

A/V Booth: Mark Halperin Labels Election Coverage ‘Disgusting’

Reports: Obama’s E-Team

Ear to the Ground: This Just In: Historic ‘08 Election Didn’t Squelch Racism

Reports: Obama’s Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy

Ear to the Ground: Chavez Celebrates Sweeping Victory

Reports: Tuning Out the Braindead Megaphone

Reports: The New Longevity

Reports: Bracing for a Major Disappointment

Reports: No More Torture

Reports: Ad-ing It All Up

Ear to the Ground: Palin Poised to Make Millions on Publishing Deal

Ear to the Ground: NYT: Mormons Made the Difference in Passage of Prop. 8

A/V Booth: Bill O’Reilly Braves ‘The Daily Show’

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