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Reports: The Age of Paine

Reports: Suddenly, a Trillion Dollars Is Too Expensive?

A/V Booth: It’s Obama’s War Now

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

Ear to the Ground: 20 Killed in Kirkuk Suicide Bombing

Cartoons: The Long Goodbye

Reports: Iraq Has Another One of Its Famous Turning Points

Reports: The Truth Alone Will Not Set You Free

Ear to the Ground: GIs Aren’t Leaving Iraq Just Yet

A/V Booth: Turning Soldiers Into Crusaders

Cartoons: Arlington

Ear to the Ground: Bomb Rips Baghdad Market Ahead of U.S. Pullback

Reports: Iran’s Regime Reveals Its Brutality

Cartoons: Promises, Promises

Ear to the Ground: Order to U.S. Troops: No Firefights Near Afghan Villagers

Cartoons: Uncle Sam

Reports: Obama’s Iran Dilemma

A/V Booth: Bill Maher: ‘Democrats Are the New Republicans’

Ear to the Ground: Rise in GI Alcohol Abuse Indicated

Reports: Daring to Dream

Reports: The War Between Civilizations That Never Was

Ear to the Ground: Congress Funds Wars With Billions to Spare

Reports: The Islamic Republic Is Not in Danger

Reports: The American Empire Is Bankrupt

Ear to the Ground: Violence Up—Way Up—in Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Hearts and Minds Redux

Reports: America’s Foreign Policy Phobias Are Overblown

Cartoons: Subscription

Ear to the Ground: America’s Bombs Are Still Exploding in Laos

Reports: Two Men Who Stood Under the Plunderers’ Knives

A/V Booth: ‘Colbert Report’ Invades Iraq

Reports: Being Obama Matters

Reports: Hold Your Applause

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

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Official Seeks More Clarity on Civilian Deaths

Ear to the Ground: Airstrike Rules Broken, Pentagon Finds

Reports: Replace Petraeus

Ear to the Ground: Cheney Disavows 9/11-Iraq Link

Reports: War Is Sin

Reports: America’s Changing Moral Universe

Cartoons: The Horror

A/V Booth: Bill Maher: America Is Greedy, Not Good

Reports: What Will Obama Say in Cairo?

Ear to the Ground: 20,000 Killed While No One Was Watching

Ear to the Ground: Escalating Suicides Shut Down Routine Duties at Base

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Official Calls for Probe of Sri Lanka War Crimes

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

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Joins the Digital Arms Race

Ear to the Ground: Obama Sends Rebs a Wreath

Cartoons: Democracy

Cartoons: Daisy Gun

Cartoons: Shooting Shit

Cartoons: Real One

Cartoons: Memorial Day

Reports: Obama and the Limits of Mastery

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Soldier Guns Down 5 Comrades

Ear to the Ground: Gates Orders a Change of Command in Afghanistan

Arts and Culture: Lou Cannon on Ronald Reagan

Reports: Combating Epidemic Ignorance

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

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

Reports: Enough With This ‘100 Days’ Nonsense

Cartoons: Too Old

Reports: What to Make of the Ironic Mr. Obama

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

Reports: Torture Is a Crime, and Crimes Demand Prosecution

Reports: News Flash: Populism Is Popular

Reports: Europe Needs No Part in Doomed Afghan War

Reports: Reagan and Nixon Greeted Despots, Too

Reports: When Fascism Came to America

Reports: Bybee Must Go

Reports: When Slapped, Slap Back

Ear to the Ground: Apple Goes to War

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

Reports: Who Will Face Down the Gun Lobby?

Arts and Culture: Chesa Boudin on Growing Up Radical

Reports: Don’t Underestimate the Tea-Baggers

Reports: Columbine Questions We Still Don’t Ponder

Ear to the Ground: AIG’s War Business Draws Criticism

Reports: Delusions of Omnipotence

Reports: Tea and Ignorance

Reports: The Obama Doctrine

Reports: Armey’s Tea Party Army

Cartoons: The War at Home

Reports: Pacifica Radio at 60: A Sanctuary of Dissent

Ear to the Ground: Castro Hails Obama Actions, Wants More

Ear to the Ground: Tony Blair Goes Gaga for God

Ear to the Ground: What You Dig

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’

Cartoons: Tax for the Memories

Reports: The Father of Guantanamo

Reports: Taliban, the Sequel

Reports: Obama: The Extremists’ Nightmare

Ear to the Ground: Shoe-Thrower Catches a Break

Ear to the Ground: Iran Warms to Obama Overtures

Reports: U.S. Muslims Still Under Siege

Ear to the Ground: Obama Shows the Troops Some Love

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

Reports: The Business of War

Truthdig Podcast: The Business of War

Ear to the Ground: Defense Secretary Trims Fat Around the Edges

Ear to the Ground: Obama Wants a Nuke-Free World

Cartoons: Suckers

Ear to the Ground: World Reacts to North Korean Launch

Arts and Culture: Troy Jollimore on the God Debate

Reports: The Irrelevance of Race

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

Ear to the Ground: House Passes Mega-Budget ’09

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

Reports: Silence Meets Despair of Afghan Women

Cartoons: Revised Campaign Poster

Reports: Seattle’s Lessons for London

Reports: Boycotting Obama at Notre Dame Is Vulgar Zealotry

Reports: Cars, Banks and Confusion

Ear to the Ground: Awakening on the Wrong Side of the Bed

Reports: Change You Can Translate

Reports: Obstruction of Justice

Reports: Newspapers’ Self-Inflicted Wounds

Reports: Drugs, Guns and Reality

Ear to the Ground: Obama to Send Even More Troops to Afghanistan

Truthdig Podcast: Documenting 8 Years of Torture

Ear to the Ground: Rabbis Stirred Holy War, Israeli Soldiers Claim

A/V Booth: ‘The American Way of War’ in 2009

Reports: America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout

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

Arts and Culture: Jacob Heilbrunn on Alger Hiss

Reports: What Is the Point of NATO?

Ear to the Ground: Israeli Soldiers Tell of Their Army’s Crimes in Gaza

Ear to the Ground: U.N. Human Rights Investigator Accuses Israel of War Crimes

Reports: Our Justified Populist Rage

Reports: Sarkozy’s Courtship of NATO Defies Rationality

Reports: The False Idol of Unfettered Capitalism

Arts and Culture: Tony Platt on Wall Street Terror Attack

Reports: Barack Obama, Meet Team B

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

Ear to the Ground: Saudi Woman, 75, Faces Lashing for Letting In Delivery Men

Cartoons: People Opposing War

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

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

Cartoons: Practice Course

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

Reports: We Are Breeding Ourselves to Extinction

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

Cartoons: Your Ad Here

Arts and Culture: Norman Birnbaum on Susan Sontag

Reports: The A Word

Reports: Why Did So Few Americans Give a Damn?

Reports: Nine Secret Bush-Era Documents Released

Ear to the Ground: Mexico Militarizes Border Town

Reports: Obama’s Coalition of the Unwilling

Cartoons: Withdrawal 101

Reports: It’s Obama’s War Now

Reports: Redistributionist, and That’s Just Fine

Cartoons: The Sports Nut

Ear to the Ground: War in Iraq: 2003-2010

Reports: Robin-Hood Republicanism?

Reports: The President’s Address to Congress

Reports: A War Fought in Ignorance

Cartoons: Harsh Medicine

Cartoons: Under New Management

Reports: A Choice Between Peace and Peril

Arts and Culture: Zachary Karabell on ‘The Case for Big Government’

Truthdig Podcast: Getting to Zero

Reports: U.S. Fear, U.S. Folly in Afghanistan

Cartoons: The Pencil

Reports: Good News for the Taliban

Reports: Good Money After Bad

Reports: America’s Confused Cause in Central Asia

Ear to the Ground: Obama Throws 17,000 Troops at Afghanistan Mess

Reports: Avoiding Another Cold War

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

Reports: Bad News From America’s Top Spy

Reports: Rules of War Weren’t Made for Only One People

Ear to the Ground: Sri Lanka’s Civil War Takes a Toll

Reports: Israel’s Lose-Lose Election

Ear to the Ground: Palestinians Push for War Crimes Inquiry

Reports: Obama’s Afghan Trap

Reports: What Price Hollywood?

Reports: The Real Obama

Ear to the Ground: WTO Chief: ‘Peace in Danger’

Arts and Culture: David Rieff on ‘Africa’s World War’

Reports: A Team of Zombies

Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Propaganda Is Booming

Reports: America’s ‘Strong Commitment to Error’

Ear to the Ground: Iraq Watchdog Looks Back on Years of Reconstruction Waste

Reports: It’s Not Going to Be OK

Cartoons: The Peace Bus

A/V Booth: Obama Says He’ll Bring Many Troops Home for Next Super Bowl

Reports: America Faces the Music in Davos

Ear to the Ground: Gates Changes Afghanistan Tune

Ear to the Ground: World Economic Growth Slowest Since WWII

Reports: NATO: Dead Man Walking

Reports: Civilian Courts Can Deal With Terrorism Cases

Ear to the Ground: Writers Pressure Obama Over Afghanistan

Cartoons: Super Man

Reports: With Gaza, Journalists Fail Again

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