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Patriotism has been reduced to wearing flag lapel pins and adorning bumper stickers that read: "I Support the Troops." Where is the courage that exemplifies the spirit of 1776?

Fundamentally, the centuries-long battle between Progressives and the right wing has been a struggle between empowerment and domination.

The new FISA bill makes U.S. citizens' most private conversations when communicating with people abroad rendered more vulnerable to eavesdropping without adequate judicial oversight. Some in Congress see this as a compromise.

In a makeshift prison in the north of Poland, Al Qaeda's engineer of mass murder faced off against his Central Intelligence Agency interrogator. It wa...

The world's grievances with the US have little to do with its history of slavery. Most of the world is more concerned with how America treats other ethnicities, beyond black.

In responding to Senator Barack Obama's stance on the phenomenally ineffective detainee program at Guantanamo Bay, McCain campaign Foreign Policy Advi...

Apparently for many people, "patriotism" and "being an American" is all about anger more than it is about pride. I say that as a casual observation. ...

Yep, he did it; Bush's deliberate roiling of world politics is the key variable in the run-up of oil prices. No president has done more to destablize the politics of oil-producing countries.

No matter how hard Bush tries to sell these arraignments as a great day for justice, it can't spin the Guantanamo courtroom spectacle into a fair judicial process worthy of the victims of September 11, 2001.

The Great Republican Disaster, from Reagan to Bush the Lesser, has been the Time of the Unreal. Recently there have been signs of hope. Yes. Hope means Obama. He speaks of reality.

Nothing about Mohammed Hashim's story suggests that he should be standing trial in a court flagged up by the administration as required to prosecute "the worst of the worst."

Sen. Biden's first priority is our veterans: You will never -- never -- see our returning troops treated as miserably as they have been under Bush-Cheney if he is vice president.

Note: I wrote this post back on April 1 of this year. Initially, after thinking that the Jeremiah Wright situation would resolve itself (finally), I s...

It's shocking to see the scale of the site and the lack of progress in turning it into -- anything. It's still a giant hole, which only serves to remind you what is missing there besides the twin towers.

I Object! Or is that Subject? This was my first reaction to the common linguistic objectification of sentient beings which has become pervasive in America.

Christine Todd Whitman, the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, cannot be held liable for assuring residents near the burning detritus...

In what appears to be nothing more than propaganda masquerading as news, the US military has announced that it will televise the Guantánamo trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Perhaps Obama might better strengthen his image of having a handle on national security issues by not sounding so much like the disgraceful, incompetent Condoleezza Rice.