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Reports: Why Obama’s Strategy Won’t Succeed

Arts and Culture: Finding Farce in Terrorism

Ear to the Ground: Why They Hate Us, Part 2

Cartoons: The Stinky Defense

Arts and Culture: The Guantanamo Lawyers: Shipwrecked

Reports: Battlefield in the War of Ideas

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

Reports: What Is So Patriotic About Hysteria?

Ear to the Ground: Holder Defends 9/11 Trial Plan

Ear to the Ground: Coming to America (to Be Tried for Terrorism)

Reports: Bring Them Home, Mr. President

Ear to the Ground: Bomb Kills 9, Wounds 50 at Pakistan Spy Agency

Cartoons: Happy 40th Sesame Street

Reports: Gorbachev’s Sermon on the Mount

Reports: When a Time Bomb Is Ticking

Reports: Learning to Speak Anew in a Tribal World

Ear to the Ground: Italy Convicts CIA Agents for Rendition

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

Reports: The Tortured Logic Continues

Reports: A Record You Can Believe In

Reports: Opium, Rape and the American Way

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

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

Ear to the Ground: Two Arrested for Alleged Plot on Danish Paper

Reports: Can’t Split the Difference in Afghanistan

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

Cartoons: Once and for All

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

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

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’: Napolitano Makes Stewart Feel Secure

A/V Booth: Moore and Hannity Debate ‘Capitalism,’ Terrorism, Conspiracy Theories

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

Reports: A War of Absurdity

Reports: Watch What You Tweet

Reports: Exorcising America’s Diplomatic Demons

Ear to the Ground: Secret Service Investigating Facebook Poll

Reports: Washington Plays the Idiot With Guantanamo

Reports: What Have We Done to Democracy?

Ear to the Ground: Terror Alerts Stuck on Yellow

Ear to the Ground: Curb Your Nuclear Proliferation

Reports: It Came From Afghanistan

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

Reports: Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore

Reports: Homeland Security Spending Marked by Waste, Shoddy Oversight

Cartoons: WTC, etc.

Reports: A 9/11 Reality Check

Ear to the Ground: Yes, It’s Still Too Soon for 9/11-Themed Advertising

Ear to the Ground: Legal Troubles Might Lie in Wait for Ashcroft

Reports: From ‘Do No Harm’ to Torture

Ear to the Ground: The Making of Iran’s New Cabinet

Reports: Why We Must Stay in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: WSJ Columnist: Cheney in 2012

Ear to the Ground: Obama Aims to Improve America’s Interrogation Record

Ear to the Ground: AG to Appoint Torture Prosecutor

Reports: Freedom From Fear—and the Second Amendment

Ear to the Ground: The Right’s Trouble With Violence

Reports: How Bad Things Might Have Been

Reports: Bush’s Pioneering Sadists: A Tale From the ‘War on Terror’ Dark Side

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

Reports: Truthdig Classic: The Terror America Wrought

Reports: Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years

Reports: U.S. Militarism Makes Us Less Secure

Reports: America’s Homeland Security Surplus

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Treats Refugees Like Terrorists

Reports: Deep-Sixing the F-22

Reports: War Without Purpose

Ear to the Ground: Deadly Explosions Hit Two Indonesian Hotels

Reports: Stains From the Bush Era Won’t Fade

Ear to the Ground: CIA Program Too Good to Be True?

Ear to the Ground: Bush’s Wiretaps Now Even More Warrantless

Reports: Two Standards of Detention

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

Reports: The Battle Over the Burqa

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

Reports: Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away

Reports: The War Between Civilizations That Never Was

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

Reports: The Lone Wolves Among Us

Ear to the Ground: Tiller’s Clinic to Close

Reports: Hold Your Applause

Cartoons: Terrorist Stuff

Reports: Domestic Terrorism by Any Standard

Reports: Rush and Newt Are Winning

Reports: What Will Obama Say in Cairo?

A/V Booth: The Obama/Cheney Throwdown

Reports: A Truth Commission Beckons

Reports: Civilians Pay the Price of War From Above

A/V Booth: Jon Stewart Inflicts Discomfort on Cliff May

Reports: Europe Needs No Part in Doomed Afghan War

Reports: Reagan and Nixon Greeted Despots, Too

Reports: Bybee Must Go

Reports: Israel’s Racist in Chief

Reports: Torture Is a Crime That Must Be Punished

Reports: The Father of Guantanamo

Reports: Obama: The Extremists’ Nightmare

Reports: U.S. Muslims Still Under Siege

Ear to the Ground: Flogging of 17-Year-Old Pakistani Girl Raises Outrage

Reports: Obstruction of Justice

Ear to the Ground: What You Dig

Reports: Obama’s Plan to Save the World

Reports: America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout

Arts and Culture: Jacob Heilbrunn on Alger Hiss

Ear to the Ground: Police Pounce on Pakistani Protests

Arts and Culture: Tony Platt on Wall Street Terror Attack

Reports: We Are Breeding Ourselves to Extinction

Reports: Obama’s Coalition of the Unwilling

Reports: Redistributionist, and That’s Just Fine

Reports: The President’s Address to Congress

Arts and Culture: ‘Slumdog Millionaire’: The Tour

Reports: Avoiding Another Cold War

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

Reports: Israel’s Lose-Lose Election

Ear to the Ground: Guantanamo’s Last Terror Trial

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

Cartoons: Bonus

Reports: America’s ‘Strong Commitment to Error’

Reports: America Faces the Music in Davos

Ear to the Ground: Obama Keeps Renditions In the Toolbox

Reports: NATO: Dead Man Walking

Cartoons: Released

Reports: Civilian Courts Can Deal With Terrorism Cases

Reports: Partisan Politics Wait in the Wings

Reports: Obama’s Salvage Operation

Ear to the Ground: Pursuing Peace in the Middle East, Obama Style

A/V Booth: Obama Signs Order to Close Guantanamo

Ear to the Ground: Obama Puts Gitmo Trials on Hold

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

Reports: Peace Is in the Eye of the Beholder

Ear to the Ground: Holder States the Obvious

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

Reports: The Language of Death

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

Reports: Obama Will Back Israel

Ear to the Ground: Obama Picks Top Spies

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

Reports: Gaza Clouds Obama’s Prospects

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

Ear to the Ground: Ahmadinejad’s Christmas Speech Raises Ruckus

Reports: Cheney’s Legacy of Deception

Reports: From ‘Mission Accomplished’ to ‘So What?’

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

A/V Booth: Are We Winning the War on Terror?

Reports: Senate Panel’s Report on U.S. Torture Abuse

Ear to the Ground: Love Is a Battlefield

Reports: West’s Role in Afghanistan Needs Re-Examining

Reports: Remaking the World in America’s Image

Ear to the Ground: Rice Sounds Positive Note After Pakistan Visit

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

Reports: Taking Over Bush’s Endless War

Reports: Confronting the Terrorist Within

Ear to the Ground: Report: WMD Terror Attack Likely

Reports: Obama the Realist

Ear to the Ground: Coordinated Attacks Kill at Least 100 in Mumbai

Reports: To Each His Own Nuke

Ear to the Ground: Pakistan PM: U.S. Airstrikes ‘Intolerable’

Reports: No More Torture

Reports: America’s Wars of Self-Destruction

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

Ear to the Ground: Some Things Never Change

Reports: Homeland Security Pays Dividends for Alaska

Reports: Obama Is the Superior Decider

Cartoons: Palling Around

Reports: Powell Said What Obama Couldn’t

A/V Booth: Al-Jazeera Profiles Fanatics ... in Small-Town Ohio

Reports: Bush Doctrine Becomes DoD Dogma

Reports: America’s Political Cannibalism

Reports: Third-Party Blues

Ear to the Ground: White House Angered by Guantanamo Ruling

A/V Booth: Olbermann Turns the Tables on Palin

Truthdig Podcast: Bill Boyarsky on McCain’s Low Blows

Ear to the Ground: McCain Sticks With Terrorist Claim Despite Media Criticism

Arts and Culture: Does the Cold War Have Lessons for Today?

Reports: Quagmire, Phase 2: The Invasion of Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: Bhutto’s Widower Assumes Presidency in Pakistan

Reports: Tyranny on Display at the Republican Convention

Arts and Culture: Jonathan Shapiro on the Hamdan Case

A/V Booth: The Algeria/al-Qaida Connection

Arts and Culture: Toby Keith Comes Out as a Democrat

Cartoons: The War on Terror’s Underlings

Arts and Culture: Zachary Karabell on the Middle East

Ear to the Ground: Hamdan Sentence Is a Snub to Prosecution

Ear to the Ground: Military Court Finds Osama’s Driver Guilty

Reports: Terror From the Inside

Reports: The Dream Campaign Goes to Berlin

Cartoons: We’re Winning

Cartoons: Canada’s Slight Detour

Ear to the Ground: Victor’s Justice

Reports: ‘Kafka Comes to America’

Ear to the Ground: Obama: ‘The Central Front in the War on Terror Is Not Iraq’

Reports: Educating the U.S. About the Middle East

Ear to the Ground: Obama Camp Denounces New Yorker Cover

Reports: Disorderly or Not, America Should Withdraw

Reports: Playing Down the Middle

Ear to the Ground: FBI Considers Racial Profiling

Reports: Fake Outrage Over Clark Comments

A/V Booth: Olbermann to Obama: ‘Give Them Something to Cry About’

Reports: Terror Goes a Lot Further With Good Advertising

Ear to the Ground: Food, Not Bombs

Reports: An Unexamined Threat

Cartoons: McTerror

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