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

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’ Insta-Classic: What Lurks Within Glenn Beck?

Reports: Sen. George McGovern on the Presidency From Lincoln to Obama

A/V Booth: Obama to Tribal Nations: ‘You Will Not Be Forgotten’

Reports: Republicans vs. the Palinites

Ear to the Ground: Goofy Stimulus Projects Have Real Value

Reports: Learning to Speak Anew in a Tribal World

Reports: Scott Ritter on Afghanistan: Don’t Believe the Hype

Reports: The GOP’s Toxic Tea Party

Ear to the Ground: Italy Convicts CIA Agents for Rendition

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

Reports: Not Right Wing but Still Angry

Reports: McGovern: Get Out of Afghanistan

Reports: 2009 Elections Don’t Foretell a Thing

Ear to the Ground: Republican Wins in New Jersey, Too

Reports: Today’s U.S. Army and Its Ambitions

Reports: The Tortured Logic Continues

Truthdig Podcast: Scott Ritter on Afghanistan: Don’t Believe the Hype

Reports: A Record You Can Believe In

Ear to the Ground: Michelle Obama Just Gets Better and Better

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

Cartoons: Wish Upon a Star

Ear to the Ground: Lying to Our Children

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

Reports: Afghan Poppy Trade Blurs All the Lines

Reports: TARP on Steroids

Reports: When the Tough Should Get Going

Ear to the Ground: Clinton Lowers the Boom About Al-Qaida in Pakistan

Reports: Hug Obama, Find the Moderates

Reports: The Party of Choice

Reports: Of Laureates and Laundry

Reports: Arrogant U.S. Misses the Message From Pakistan’s People

Reports: The War Condolences Obama Hasn’t Sent

Reports: Can’t Split the Difference in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Senate Bill Will Include Public Option

Reports: War Is a Hate Crime

Ear to the Ground: Baghdad Shaken by Worst Attack in Two Years

Cartoons: Once and for All

Reports: Wall Street ‘Crimes’ Need Better Policing

Ear to the Ground: Some Americans Won’t Believe in Global Warming Until They’re Actually Melting

Reports: The Country That Cries Wolf

Ear to the Ground: Obama Orders Salary Cuts

Reports: Blinded by Reform

Reports: Don’t Worry About Us Seniors

Reports: GOP Civil War Flares in New York

A/V Booth: Racism Down Under and Beyond

Ear to the Ground: White House Lawyer in Trouble for Doing His Job

Ear to the Ground: Boom Times for Pot Growers

Cartoons: When You’re Smiling

Ear to the Ground: Attn. Senate: Most Americans Want a Public Option

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

Reports: Health Care Reform Insurance Companies Can Believe In

Ear to the Ground: High Times for States’ Rights

Reports: Obama Can’t Lose the Young

Ear to the Ground: Wall Street Bonuses ‘Offensive’

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Holds Up on Sending Troops

Ear to the Ground: District of Corruption

Ear to the Ground: Real Talk on Health Reform

Ear to the Ground: Harkin Sees a Public Option in Health Bill’s Future

Reports: A Down-and-Out Route for Rush

Reports: When Did Olympia Snowe Become Queen of America?

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

Ear to the Ground: Louisiana Official Refuses to License Interracial Marriage

Ear to the Ground: Sorry Grandma, No COLA for You

Ear to the Ground: Poll Puts Clinton Over Obama

Reports: A Nobel for Defeating Cheneyism

Reports: Lt. Choi Won’t Lie for His Country

Reports: In Search of Great Men

Cartoons: Prize for Hope [A Cartoon From Austria]

Cartoons: Premature Nobel

Reports: Bribe, Vote, Repeat

Reports: Why Do Conservatives Hate America?

A/V Booth: Glenn Beck Goes to War

Ear to the Ground: Summers to Boehner: Stimulus Is Working

Ear to the Ground: A People’s History of Ironic Prizes

Cartoons: Failure Fail

Reports: Prizing Peace on the Home Front

Ear to the Ground: Obama Promises End to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Again.

Cartoons: Jumping the Gun

Cartoons: Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize

Ear to the Ground: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Reports: Unintended Consequences in Nuclear Pakistan

Reports: Night of the Living Deadbeats

Ear to the Ground: German Socialists Make Do Without Socialized Medicine

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Calls for Reinforcements in Afghanistan

Cartoons: Trick or Treat

Reports: Meltdown After the Meltdown

Reports: Stimulation Without the S-Word

Reports: Why Obama Must Spend More

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’: The Gay After Tomorrow

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Taliban Say They Have No International Agenda

Ear to the Ground: How Fox News Rigs Polls

Reports: Gen. McChrystal’s Celebrity Weekend

Reports: Watch What You Tweet

A/V Booth: ‘Colbert Report’: Cheering America’s Olympic Failure

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Pumps Up Health Care Reform

Reports: The Missing Health Care Debate

Reports: Put a Sock in it, Stan

Ear to the Ground: Team Obama Split on Afghanistan Question

Ear to the Ground: Obama Pressures Senate on Public Option

Reports: War Kills Off Great Reform Movements

Reports: Pox Americana: The Real Cost of Bailing Out Wall Street

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Jobs, Health, War, Sex!

Ear to the Ground: Chicago Booted From Olympic Running

Reports: Who’s in Charge: Obama, Congress or the Military?

Reports: ‘Socialism’ and Sham in the Senate

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

Reports: Obama’s Afghanistan Dilemma

Reports: A Question of Health—and Equality

Reports: The Public Option Only Looks Dead

Ear to the Ground: U.S. to Huddle With Iran on Its Nuclear Plans

Cartoons: Everybody but Us

Ear to the Ground: Secret Service Investigating Facebook Poll

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

Reports: Washington Plays the Idiot With Guantanamo

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Critical of Zelaya, Honduran Government

A/V Booth: Iran Aiming to Provoke With Missile Tests?

Ear to the Ground: Gitmo Deadline May Be Missed

Reports: Massachusetts Looks for Life After Teddy

Ear to the Ground: Lowered Expectations

Reports: Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Could Get Much Worse if Tolerated

Ear to the Ground: G-20 Muscles G-7 Aside

Ear to the Ground: Obama Outs Iranian Nuclear Site

Reports: Let Blue Dogs Face the Music

A/V Booth: Glenn Beck the Frog Killer?

Ear to the Ground: Curb Your Nuclear Proliferation

Reports: Charity Should Begin With Charities

Reports: The Truth About Two Racists—Beck and Limbaugh

Reports: Obama TV: How the President Revived Health Care

Reports: A Puzzling, Dangerous U.S. Policy Comes to an End

Ear to the Ground: McChrystal to Send Troop Request by Week’s End

Reports: President Zelaya and the Audacity of Action

Ear to the Ground: Mideast Peace Talks Yield Only a Handshake

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Puts a Hold on Troop Increase Request

A/V Booth: Obama: ‘I Was Actually Black Before the Election’

Reports: It Came From Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Newspaper Bailout? Maybe, but Don’t Hold Your Breath

Ear to the Ground: Obama Won’t Buckle Under on Torture Inquiry

A/V Booth: Truthdig’s Editorial Roundtable

A/V Booth: Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process Stopped in Its Tracks?

Truthdig Podcast: Where Did All These Marchers Come From?

Reports: Where Did All These Marchers Come From?

Reports: Selective Deficit Disorder

Reports: Jimmy Carter Is Right

Ear to the Ground: Did Somebody Spike Sen. Grassley’s Ovaltine?

Ear to the Ground: Obama Punts Missile Shield, Russians Dance the Kalinka

Ear to the Ground: Yet Another Reason Why War in Afghanistan Is a Bad Idea

Reports: Why We Fight the Tire War With China

Reports: Testing the Obama Effect

Reports: Clinging to Civility

Reports: All U.S. Presidents Need a War to Call Their Own—and Obama Has His

Cartoons: Obama Lectures Wall Street

A/V Booth: Tea-Baggers March on Washington, Have No Idea Why

Reports: Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore

Ear to the Ground: Top Admiral Says U.S. May Need More Troops in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Wilson Faces House Knuckle-Rapping for Heckling Obama

Reports: The Other Public Options

Reports: Wall Street Is Still Playing the Odds

Ear to the Ground: Report: Glenn Beck’s Ad Dollars Take a Dive

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s White House Is Woman and Girl Crazy—in a Good Way

A/V Booth: Kanye Heckles Obama?

Cartoons: Appease and Carrots

Reports: Stop Begging Obama and Get Mad

Reports: Wilson and Our National Character

Reports: Homeland Security Spending Marked by Waste, Shoddy Oversight

Ear to the Ground: Is Rep. Joe Wilson Winning?

A/V Booth: Letterman Heckles Obama’s Heckler

Ear to the Ground: Pelosi Sees Little Support for Troop Deployments

Cartoons: The Revelation

Cartoons: Obama M.D. [A Cartoon From Germany]

Reports: We’ve Seen This Trigger Before

Reports: No Way to Treat a President

Ear to the Ground: Insurance Stocks Rise After Obama Speech

Reports: A Speech Even Insurance Companies Could Love

Reports: A Perfect Storm of Idiocy

Reports: Obama’s Health Care Reset

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

A/V Booth: Video: Obama’s Health Care Speech to Congress

A/V Booth: Obama Heckled During Speech

Ear to the Ground: Ted Kennedy’s Letter From Beyond the Grave

Ear to the Ground: Republicans Ask Reformed Birther to Rebut Obama

Ear to the Ground: Getting a Read on Afghanistan

Reports: Van Jones and the Boycott of Glenn Beck

Ear to the Ground: Don’t Take Blue Dog’s Word for It: It’s Worthless

Reports: Stuck in the Middle

A/V Booth: White House Releases Obama’s School Speech

Ear to the Ground: Does Max Baucus Represent Montana or Blue Cross?

Reports: It Could Be the End of Our Democracy as We Know It

Cartoons: Indoctrination in Schools

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Green Jobs Adviser Gives In to the Smears

Cartoons: EPCEA Now

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Condemns Israeli Settlement Expansion

Reports: From ‘Do No Harm’ to Torture

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

Cartoons: Good Old Days

Reports: Don’t Be Fooled by the Public Option

Reports: Cheney Plays to His Crowd

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