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Reports: The Afghanistan Speech Obama Should Give (but Won’t)

Reports: What Is So Patriotic About Hysteria?

Reports: The New State Solution

Reports: Afghanistan’s Sham Army

Reports: The Tortured Logic Continues

Reports: Opium, Rape and the American Way

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

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

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

Reports: Looking for a Middle Class

Ear to the Ground: ‘Spiraling Increases’ in Afghan Police Deaths

Reports: Obama’s Afghanistan Dilemma

Reports: Washington Plays the Idiot With Guantanamo

Ear to the Ground: Terror Alerts Stuck on Yellow

Ear to the Ground: Justice to Tackle Federal Secrecy Abuses

Reports: Homeland Security Spending Marked by Waste, Shoddy Oversight

Ear to the Ground: Kabul Contractor Parties Aren’t the Half of It

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

Reports: Victory at the Cost of Sanity in Obama’s Forever War

Ear to the Ground: War Is Over! (If You Say So)

Reports: Law, Not Torture, Protects National Security

Reports: Only Time Can Heal Some Iraqi Wounds

Ear to the Ground: Counterterrorism Chief Says Bullets Alone Won’t Do the Job

Reports: U.S. Militarism Makes Us Less Secure

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

Reports: America’s Homeland Security Surplus

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

Reports: Obama Means Business About Two-State Solution

Reports: Two Standards of Detention

Ear to the Ground: Homeland Insecurity: Bombs in Government Buildings

Ear to the Ground: Friends Don’t Let Friends Bomb Iran

Reports: Iraq Has Another One of Its Famous Turning Points

Reports: America’s ICE Backwards Approach to Immigration

Ear to the Ground: We’ll Always Have Baghdad

Reports: A Settlement Stalemate With No End in Sight

Reports: Guns and the Link We Won’t Admit

Ear to the Ground: CIA Chief Wonders Whether Cheney Wishes for Terrorist Attack

Ear to the Ground: An Army of Fun

Reports: Hold Your Applause

Reports: Domestic Terrorism by Any Standard

Reports: Replace Petraeus

Ear to the Ground: U.S.-Israel on the Rocks

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

Reports: Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil

Reports: Fresh Air Versus a Bunker

Reports: Obama and the Limits of Mastery

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: Report: Rep. Harman Mixed Up With AIPAC, Espionage and Alberto Gonzales

Reports: Up, Up and Away: The West’s Hysterical Reaction to North Korea

Reports: Delusions of Omnipotence

Reports: Getting to Zero Starts With One Man

Reports: The Father of Guantanamo

Ear to the Ground: Die Hard 5: Real Life

Ear to the Ground: Spam Rules the Inbox

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

Ear to the Ground: World Reacts to North Korean Launch

Reports: This Is the Truth on Drugs ... Any Questions?

Ear to the Ground: What You Dig

Reports: Obama’s Plan to Save the World

Reports: Sarkozy’s Courtship of NATO Defies Rationality

Arts and Culture: Tony Platt on Wall Street Terror Attack

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Troop Shuffle Leaves Us Dizzy

Reports: Nine Secret Bush-Era Documents Released

Ear to the Ground: Blackwater CEO Steps Down

Reports: It’s Obama’s War Now

Reports: The President’s Address to Congress

Reports: A Choice Between Peace and Peril

Reports: Good News for the Taliban

Reports: Avoiding Another Cold War

Ear to the Ground: Rebutting the False Choice Between Security and Freedom

Ear to the Ground: Cheney Claims ‘High Probability’ of WMD Attack

Ear to the Ground: No They Can’t

Arts and Culture: Protecting the Homeland From Homeland Security

Reports: NATO: Dead Man Walking

Reports: With Gaza, Journalists Fail Again

Reports: Obama’s Salvage Operation

Ear to the Ground: Obama Puts Gitmo Trials on Hold

Reports: What Can Obama Learn From Bush?

Reports: The District of Pandemonium

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

Ear to the Ground: Can You Hear Me Now?: Terrorist Edition

Arts and Culture: ‘Homeland Security USA’: The Outtakes

Reports: Should the Torturers Go on Trial?

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Suspends Gaza Aid, Blames Israel

Reports: Obama Will Back Israel

Reports: Why I Am a Socialist

Reports: Leaders Lie, Civilians Die, and Lessons of History Are Ignored

Reports: The Road Out of Iraq Begins in Vietnam

Arts and Culture: James Blight on McGeorge Bundy

Reports: Blundering U.S. Should Spare the World Any More Nation Building

Reports: Sweeping Blackwater Under the Rug

Reports: Obama Embraces the Military

Ear to the Ground: Blackwater Guards Indicted for Shootings

Ear to the Ground: Maryland Police Keep You Safe From Terrorist Nuns

Reports: Not a Team of Rivals at All

Reports: Which Hillary Will We Get?

Reports: Chevron in the White House

Reports: Was There Any Point to the Bloodshed in Mumbai?

Reports: Taking Over Bush’s Endless War

Ear to the Ground: Gates to Keep the Reins of War

Reports: Tutu, Obama and the Middle East

Reports: To Each His Own Nuke

Ear to the Ground: Obama Settles on 3 More Cabinet Picks, Sources Say

Ear to the Ground: McCain and Obama Shoot the Breeze In Chicago

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s E-Mail Dilemma

Ear to the Ground: Homeland Security Report: LAX Vulnerable to Attack

Reports: With Iran, Obama Needs More Carrot, Less Stick

Ear to the Ground: How Bloody Can Bush’s Legacy Be?

Reports: Homeland Security Pays Dividends for Alaska

Reports: Obama Is the Superior Decider

Reports: Virtual JFK: The 44th President’s Foreign Policy Challenge

Reports: Election Protection

Reports: U.S. Loses Its Grip on Europe

Reports: America’s Political Cannibalism

Reports: Palin vs. Palin

Reports: Third-Party Blues

Reports: What McCain and Obama Just Don’t Get About Central Asia

Reports: Dennis Kucinich on the Democrats’ Bailout Betrayal

Arts and Culture: John Holmes on ‘The Lost Spy’

Reports: Will the Pentagon Be the Next U.S. Institution to Crash?

Ear to the Ground: Fighting Pirates in the 21st Century

Reports: Whatever Happened to Personal Responsibility?

Reports: Remembering 9/11 and Moving Forward

Reports: The Second Insurgency

Reports: Baghdad Behind Walls

Ear to the Ground: ‘Surge’ Rhetoric Not Universal

Reports: Acts of War

Reports: Washington’s Overrated ‘Old Hands’

Ear to the Ground: China to Allow ‘Protest Lite’

Ear to the Ground: Blackwater Plans to Back Away From Security Biz

Reports: Obama’s Audition

Reports: ‘Kafka Comes to America’

Ear to the Ground: Israel and Iran Talk Tough

Reports: Disorderly or Not, America Should Withdraw

Ear to the Ground: Bombings Jolt South Asia

Ear to the Ground: Private Contractors in Iraq to Lose Immunity

Reports: Terror Goes a Lot Further With Good Advertising

Ear to the Ground: FISA Deal: Compromise or Capitulation?

Arts and Culture: Nicholas von Hoffman on ‘The Big Squeeze’

Reports: Indefensible Spending

Ear to the Ground: Petraeus Suggests Withdrawals

Cartoons: Airline Fees

Reports: A Better Iraq? That’s What Saddam Said

Reports: Iraq’s Mosul a ‘Ghost City’

Ear to the Ground: Blackwater Bounces Back

Reports: Business Stirs in a Walled Neighborhood

Ear to the Ground: Terrorism Thrives in Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: Obama Web Site Hacked

Ear to the Ground: Maliki Asks for a Pass

Reports: Carter Was Right to Meet With Hamas

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Builds Wall in Sadr City

Ear to the Ground: Put Up Your Nukes

Reports: The Other Dream Ticket

Ear to the Ground: Maliki Gives Up the Fight

Ear to the Ground: More Trouble for Iraq’s PM

Ear to the Ground: Border Barrier Evades Green Laws

Ear to the Ground: Kidnappers Free Baghdad Security Spokesman

Ear to the Ground: You Take the High, Palestinians Take the Low

Ear to the Ground: War’s Harsh Echo

Reports: War Started With Lies, Continues With Lies

Reports: Reagan Democrats

Ear to the Ground: Aid Groups Slam Gaza Blockade

Reports: ‘Great Satan’ Gets Struck Out

Arts and Culture: Angelina Jolie: Now’s the Time to Help Iraqis

Reports: The Calm Before the Conflagration

Reports: The Poppy Problem

Reports: McCain’s Losing Message

Ear to the Ground: World Leaders Struggle With Kosovo Independence

Ear to the Ground: EU Leaders Balk at Bush’s New Flight Plan

Ear to the Ground: Dual Bombings in Baghdad Kill 64

Reports: Rocky Mountain Realities

Reports: The End of Privacy

Reports: The Lessons of Violence

Ear to the Ground: Blackwater Gassed Baghdad Checkpoint in 2005

Reports: Why Bloomberg?

Ear to the Ground: Mr. Bush Goes to Israel

Ear to the Ground: Circling the Wagons in Baghdad

Reports: Climbing Out of the Oil Ditch

Ear to the Ground: A British Reality Check on Progress In Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Hostages Released From Clinton Office

Ear to the Ground: Giuliani’s Hanky-Panky: On the Public Tab?

Reports: America in the Time of Empire

Ear to the Ground: Tentative Security Gains in Baghdad?

Reports: What Are We Fighting For?

Ear to the Ground: FBI Blames Blackwater in 14 Civilian Deaths

Ear to the Ground: Airport Security Fails to Catch Bomb Components

Ear to the Ground: Blackwater’s Pattern of Violence

Ear to the Ground: America’s Largest Nuclear Plant Put on Lockdown

Reports: Giuliani’s Secret 9/11 Testimony

Reports: Cyborg Parents From Hell

Reports: America Is Watching You

Ear to the Ground: State Dept. Gave Blackwater Shooters Immunity

Reports: The American Police State

Ear to the Ground: A State Dept. Band-Aid for Blackwater Problem

Reports: Sweeping Our Inhumanity Under the Rug

Reports: Inside the Military-Industrial Complex

Cartoons: Blackwater’s New Gig

Ear to the Ground: Report Points to Blackwater’s Excessive Violence

Reports: Biden One-Ups Bush

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