How can Republicans -- having failed so ignominiously at home and abroad over the past eight years -- recover? What can be done to save this party?
Robert Naiman | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics
It may be Russia that recently sent its troops across international borders in violation of the UN Charter in a "humanitarian intervention" to protect...
Joe Cirincione | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics
President Bush's new deal with Poland gives that country millions in aid, stokes Russia's paranoia and decreases America's security. It is bad policy.
Joe Lauria | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics
Randy Scheunemann stands as living, breathing proof of the incestuous relationship between the White House, the Pentagon, defense contractors, Congress and foreign governments: the military industrial complex.
Robert Scheer | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics
Is it possible that this time the October surprise was tried in August, and that the garbage issue of brave little Georgia struggling for its survival...
American News Project | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics
From the American News Project: Washington's neocons are alive and well, advising both John McCain and President Bush. Now many are saying Bush shoul...
Lionel Beehner | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
Like all right-wing foreign policy hacks, Randy Scheunemann is a fervent believer in the sanctity of American power as an infallible force for good.
Time | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
I have now been called antisemitic and intellectually unstable and a whole bunch of other silly things by the folks over at the Commentary blog. They ...
Muhammad Sahimi | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics
Whereas the implications of a war with Iran for the national security of the US would be much worse than those of the Iraq war, little has been said about the implications for our economic security here at home.
John Feffer | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
Yes, the U.S. government has given "democracy promotion" a bad name. But progressives should not withhold support from movements in other countries fighting nonviolently against tyranny.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
By removing North Korea from the list of terrorist supporting states and by lifting sanctions imposed on it for decades, Bush put a nail in the coffin of the neocon theory.
Michael Conniff | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
Neoconservatism is about seeing everything as appeasement, no matter the size of the pea-shooter, and making the philosophy fit the crime, regardless of the consequences.
Michael Carmichael | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home
As a direct result of his AIPAC speech, Obama's stock is collapsing not only in the Middle East, but also around the globe.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
The true contempt for our soldiers comes from Bill Kristol and his neo-con pals who sent them off to fight and die in a totally bogus, elective war -- not from MoveOn.org
Washington Independent | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics
Ever since the Rumsfeld era at the Pentagon ended abruptly in the aftermath of the Democratic victory in the 2006 mid-term elections, the civilian haw...
Jared Bernstein | Posted 05.26.2008 | Politics
Recent history has shown that John McCain's policy agenda is antithetical to his goals. Regarding the variables that matter most to working families, the neocon experiment was a particularly dramatic failure.
Matthew Palevsky | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics
Those who expected General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker to beat the drums of war during this week's Senate hearings must be disappointed. Joe Lieberman certainly was.
James Freedman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
The following piece was produced by HuffPost's OffTheBus. Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) recently gained fame for breaking one-day online donation rec...
The Nation | Eric Alterman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Today's topic is the paradox--or one of them, anyway--of American Jewish political behavior. No, it's not that hoary old cliché that they "earn like ...
The Hill | Roxana Tiron | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Congressional Democrats are capitalizing on the latest intelligence estimate on Iran's nuclear weapons development to question President Bush's credib...
New York Times | Lisa Tozzi | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Just two days after the release of a National Intelligence Report that has made Iran the flashpoint of debate in the presidential race, the Giuliani c...
New York Times | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The National Intelligence Estimate released on Monday resounded with the authority of 16 American spy agencies in agreement that Iran halted its nucle...
New York Times | MARK MAZZETTI and WILLIAM J. BROAD | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
A fight has erupted between conservatives on national security and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice over the Bush administration's pursuit of diplo...
Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
AEI scholar Joshua Muravchik has consistently pushed for war with Iran. In Nov. 2006, for example, Muravchik wrote an LA Times op-ed called simply, "B...
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics