Salon: Opinion

Behind Liz Cheney's group, a weird legacy of torture

Joe Conason — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:10:00 PST

Financing Cheney's pro-torture front is Melvin Sembler, who once enabled "enhanced interrogation" of American teens

The real political realities

Digby — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:10:00 PST

The political system was always broken, and the Republicans and Democrats have always been divided. Why the fuss?

Obamanomics one year out

Robert Reich — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:10:00 PST

Sagging demand and soaring deficits have the right wing going nuts and the president against the wall

The GOP's bad old ideas

Michael Lind — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:20:00 PST

Bomb Iran and privatize Social Security. Really? That's all you've got?

Yes, the 9/11 trial should be held in New York

Joe Conason — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:09:00 PST

Mayor Bloomberg's flip-flop embarrassed the Obama administration and himself. He was right the first time

When communities "choose life"

David Sirota — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:20:00 PST

Oregon rejected the anti-tax zealots and voted for tax increases. Colorado Springs wasn't so lucky

Does the Taliban want to talk peace with the U.S.?

Joe Conason — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:20:00 PST

A team of ex-Taliban officials is quietly promoting negotiations -- and say their old comrades would dump al- Qaida

13 black truths

Elon James White — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:50:00 PST

It's the 21st century, folks. You really ought to know this stuff

Who's killing financial reform?

Robert Reich — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:05:00 PST

Call me old-fashioned, but I thought Congress was in charge of passing legislation, not Wall Street

There is job hysteria for a reason

Digby — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:05:00 PST

Not everyone can afford to "ride out" the slump, as they're being instructed to do by some employed pundits

Republicans revive a debate they lost, badly

Joe Conason — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:05:00 PST

Privatizing Social Security is again on the GOP agenda -- a political mistake that worried Democrats should welcome

Pakistan bombing reveals U.S. troops in-country

Juan Cole — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:05:00 PST

Three dead Americans in Pakistani uniforms contradict claims that no U.S. ground forces are operating in borders

The deficit blame game

Gene Lyons — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:20:00 PST

Millions of voters believe the GOP line about Obama's runaway spending. It's up to him to set the record straight

O'Keefe arrest spawns lame excuses -- and nasty smear

Joe Conason — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:20:00 PST

One theory to be put to rest in Landrieu wiretap case: This was no Justice Department plot to frame anyone

There's something about Obama

Digby — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:04:00 PST

What is it that sets him apart from Real Americans? The Washington Post has some answers

The twilight struggle for the leadership of Iraq

Juan Cole — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:04:00 PST

Iran, the U.S. and Iraqi groups dance around each other as election approaches

Our incredible shrinking democracy

Robert Reich — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:04:00 PST

Big decisions that the majority's supposed to make are happening instead behind closed doors

Deficit hawks -- or deficit dodos?

Michael Lind — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:20:00 PST

Dodonomics preaches that the government should be "run like a business." But what business doesn't borrow money?

Did Tony Blair blow it as Mideast envoy?

Joe Conason — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:20:00 PST

Blair's Iraq-inquiry gaffes roused anger against him in Britain -- and may disqualify him as peace envoy

Media turns to disaster porn to keep an audience

David Sirota — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:30:00 PST

Cable news would rather discuss Haiti's natural disaster than its man-made one

This week's winner: Paul Shirley

Ethan Strauss — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:29:00 PST

An ex-NBA player becomes an ex-ESPN writer by drubbing ... the people of Haiti?

On foreign influence, experts back Obama

Joe Conason — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:30:00 PST

Conservatives claim the president lied in his State of the Union speech -- but nonpartisan experts agree with him

Obama is right on the (foreign) money

Joe Conason — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:29:00 PST

Right-wingers scream that Obama distorted the Citizens United decision. But Alito's own remarks show they're wrong

Speech was short on foreign policy thinking

Juan Cole — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:29:00 PST

The president didn't have much of substance to say on the region that will give him his worst crises

Welcome to corporate-sponsored America

Gene Lyons — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:28:00 PST

Are we headed for the day when politicians appear on TV wearing jumpsuits festooned with company logos?

Stupid beyond a reasonable doubt

Joe Conason — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:28:00 PST

Right-wing stuntmen are busted in New Orleans -- but they still deserve the presumption of innocence

A million green jobs, cheap!

Joe Conason — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:27:00 PST

Obama's green-collar economy dream may wilt in his deficit freeze. But Bill Clinton says he knows how to save it

Obama's populist pose

Michael Lind — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:26:00 PST

What the president needs to do to prove his newfound populism is more than just a one-day P.R. stunt

Is the president panicking?

Robert Reich — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:26:00 PST

His spending freeze invokes memories of Clinton's shift right in '94. It's worse because it could doom the recovery

Devaluing democracy, in foreign currency

Joe Conason — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:26:00 PST

How will foreign interests wield power after "Citizens United"? Ask a politician who knows -- like Haley Barbour