Republicans are saying that cutting off funding for our troops is never acceptable. That's the obvious lie that must be exposed.
Dan Agin | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics
In politics, we don't remember enough. We forget how much of American political history is a history of con-men selling us "snake oil."
Justin Hudnall | Posted 11.11.2007 | Politics
Most everyone knows the pivotal quote from General Douglas MacArthur's farewell address, "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away." The note he ch...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.29.2007 | Politics
Six House members -- three Republicans and three Democrats -- have joined together to introduce legislation strengthening the 1973 War Powers Act whic...
Mort Rosenblum | Posted 10.22.2007 | Politics
You cannot reorder at gunpoint a society that has spent millennia fending off saviors with a shopping list.
Norman Solomon | Posted 10.18.2007 | Politics
We keep hearing that Iraq is not Vietnam. But the United States is the United States -- still a country run by leaders who brandish, celebrate and use the massive violent capabilities of the Pentagon as a matter of course.
Peter Mehlman | Posted 10.10.2007 | Politics
The lament (in liberal circles) is that, no matter what crimes the Bush administration commits, nothing sticks.
AP | BEN STOCKING | Posted 09.23.2007 | Business
In a country whose peasant army once marched on flip-flops cut from old tires, Gucci beach sandals priced at $365 can come as a shock. But the luxury...
James Ross | Posted 09.19.2007 | Politics
While the new council got off to a very disappointing start, a greater US role, not disengagement, is needed so that the United Nations can be effective in promoting human rights globally.
Rob Polner | Posted 09.13.2007 | Politics
How interesting to hear Rudy Giuliani decrying "these terrible attacks" on David Petraeus, considering the former mayor's history of lashing out against another decorated general, Barry McCaffrey.
Simon Maxwell Apter | Posted 09.13.2007 | Living
I simply can't calculate the added value of body spray. But it does strike me, though, that virtually every great American product seeks to sublime to aerosol status at some point in its career.
Robert Scheer | Posted 09.12.2007 | Politics
Once again, we have a general repeatedly promising to save Western civilization by turning the corner in yet another intractable and unnecessary foreign war.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 09.07.2007 | Politics
It took 30 years for Americans' confidence in the military to climb out of the pit it had fallen into during the Vietnam War. Will Petraeus' testimony be the tipping point that sends it back toward the cellar?
Bob Burnett | Posted 09.05.2007 | Home
Since the invasion of Iraq, in March of 2003, George W. Bush's rationale for the occupation has continually shifted. On August 22nd, the White House o...
RJ Eskow | Posted 08.31.2007 | Politics
There's no doubt that the GOP and its media arm will try to spin any withdrawal as denying the troops "permission to win." But they were elected to stop this war.
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Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics