Salon: Opinion

We are what we trade (and how we trade it)

David Sirota — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:07:00 PST

International trade affects our healthcare, the economy and the environment -- in other words, everything

Joe Lieberman undercuts his wife

Joe Conason — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:06:00 PST

If he really cared about women's health, Hadassah's new cause, he'd get out of the way of healthcare reform

Israeli settlements could cause one-state solution

Juan Cole — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:06:00 PST

PLO leader warns that settlers in the West Bank are making a free-standing Palestinian state impossible

The Keyboard Commandos want Obama to be tough

Gene Lyons — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:05:00 PST

Dick Cheney, David Brooks and others urge the president to man up. Why is foreign policy always about machismo?

The Blue Dog Dems are in danger

Robert Reich — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:05:00 PST

If Congress doesn't go after unemployment, some conservative Democrats are going to lose jobs

Why Dilbert is doomed

Michael Lind — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:30:00 PST

The jobs of tomorrow are not what you'd expect

Abdullah withdraws from Afghan presidential race

Juan Cole — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:03:00 PST

Hamid Karzai's rigged, botched reelection leaves the U.S. with no legitimate partner

Healthcare matters, but unemployment matters more

Robert Reich — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:03:00 PST

Maybe Obama can turn on a dime from healthcare to jobs, but if not, there will be trouble

The pope launches a right-wing affirmative-action program

Frances Kissling — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:31:00 PST

Benedict wants to beef up the ranks of conservative Catholics. If that means bending the rules, no problem

America the superpower melts down

Michael Klare — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:29:00 PST

American preeminence is disappearing 15 years early. Get ready to be an ordinary nation

Meet TARP on steroids

David Sirota — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:29:00 PDT

A quiet new measure may let the government give away even more of your money to banks

U.S. troops are hostages of Iraq's broken democracy

Juan Cole — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:31:00 PDT

Iraq doesn't know how to hold an election, and we shouldn't stick around to teach them at gunpoint

Why does Joe Lieberman oppose healthcare reform? Ask his wife

Joe Conason — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:28:00 PDT

Both Lieberman and Evan Bayh have spouses who have profited from the healthcare industry

Don't be surprised the media elite sided with Fox

Gene Lyons — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:27:00 PDT

Washington reporters know that Democrats complain, but Republicans get even

I'm a doctor. So sue me. No, really

Rahul K. Parikh, M.D. — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:28:00 PDT

The doctors' lobby says capping malpractice suits will make healthcare cheaper. I'm an M.D. and I don't believe it

The tax breaks that ate America

Michael Lind — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:27:00 PDT

The greatest threat to the U.S. economy is not creeping socialism. It's creeping subsidism

Obama's foreign policy report card

Juan Cole — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:26:00 PDT

You'd never know it from the MSM, but he deserves high grades for his work so far in Iran, Iraq and Pakistan

Shameful Illinois prosecutors go after student investigators

Darren Hutchinson — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:27:00 PDT

What did Northwestern's journalism students get for their death penalty muckraking? A subpoena from the prosecutor

Why the White House and Congress won't break up the banks

Robert Reich — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:27:00 PDT

There are plenty of good reasons to break up the behemoth banks -- just not good enough for Obama

The blowback from the Baghdad bombings

Juan Cole — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:26:00 PDT

Two blasts kill more than 100 in Iraq. Will hawks use the attacks to argue against American troop withdrawal?

What the U.S. military can't do

Nick Turse — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:23:00 PDT

Obama's choice: Failed war president, or the prince of peace

Donors should be rewarded for their kidneys

Frances Kissling — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:20:00 PDT

Millions of people like me need kidneys and there aren't enough. The government should give benefits to live donors

Texas, the eyes of Justice are upon you

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:24:00 PDT

The Lone Star State mourns a justice-for-all judge while enduring a governor who's in love with the death penalty

Why is it bad to smoke weed and OK to sell beer?

David Sirota — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:24:00 PDT

Michael Phelps smoked a bong, Lance Armstrong is pushing alcohol. Why is Phelps the bad guy?

Criticizing Fox News isn't "Nixonian." But Fox News is

Joe Conason — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:23:00 PDT

Pundits are making false comparisons between Obama and Nixon. They have no idea what they're talking about

Why Wall Street reform is stuck in reverse

Robert Reich — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:23:00 PDT

Democrats are going to have a hard time biting the hand that feeds them

Pat Buchanan: Working-class whites losing "their" country

Darren Hutchinson — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:23:00 PDT

The conservative pundit thinks white people have suffered enough already

Why are we still in Afghanistan?

Gene Lyons — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:22:00 PDT

The country poses no threat to the U.S., but the war costs lives, drains the treasury and makes enemies

That sound you hear is the social fabric about to snap

Michael Lind — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:28:00 PDT

The real unemployment rate is almost 20 percent. Here's what the federal government can do about the jobs crisis

Letterman didn't pay hush money. Neither should Obama

Robert Reich — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:20:00 PDT

Letterman refused to pay his alleged blackmailer. Obama should say no to Big Pharma, the insurers and the AMA