Salon: Opinion

Rush Limbaugh is still a big fat idiot

Joe Conason — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:30:00 PDT

And so are his Fox News pals, who lambasted Sen. Al Franken's "stolen election"

Iran: "The guest is God's friend"

Sandy Tolan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:15:00 PDT

The detention of journalist Iason Athanasiadis is a legal abomination -- and a breach of Iranian hospitality

Debate over government-funded police protection heats up

Michael Lind — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:24:00 PDT

Conservatives decry "socialized" law enforcement; Democrats are divided over "single-payer" police protection

Mass protests in Iran crushed for now

Juan Cole — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:30:00 PDT

Rafsanjani deserts Mousavi, plus violent tactics by security forces drive opposition off the streets

What can I do to help Obama?

Robert Reich — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:27:00 PDT

The public has to force him to do the right thing

Dear Wingnut, are we really a center-right nation?

Glenallen Walken — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:20:00 PDT

Our undercover conservative insists America remains moderate to conservative, no matter what happened last November

Where no cellphones can reach

David Sirota — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:26:00 PDT

In this age of instant e-mail and ubiquitous BlackBerrys, is it possible to disconnect completely?

Remind me: Which political party is "decadent" and "sick"?

Joe Conason — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:25:00 PDT

Mark Sanford's zipper problem is yet more proof that Republican conservatives are just liberals in right-wing drag

Among the ruins of Henry Ford's America

Greg Grandin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:16:00 PDT

In the 1920s the auto titan strove to export his empire to the Amazon rain forest. Have you read a parable lately?

Iran's in turmoil. Good thing McCain's not president

Gene Lyons — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:10:00 PDT

Instead of belligerence, President Obama offers carefully chosen words to Iranians and quotes Martin Luther King

Why critics of a public option for healthcare are wrong

Robert Reich — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:25:00 PDT

Those opposing a public option -- Big Pharma, the AMA, the insurers -- are doing so out of economic self-interest

Is war between Iran and Israel inevitable?

Erich Follath — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:24:00 PDT

Given the similarities between Netanyahu and Ahmadinejad, the two countries could be on a collision course.

Wanted: Freedom from religion

Michael Lind — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:23:00 PDT

The theocratic repression in Iran is a reminder that there can be no freedom without secular government

Neda becomes a symbol of the protests

Ulrike Putz — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:23:00 PDT

A video that purports to show the last moments of a young Iranian woman has become an opposition symbol

Why are conservatives such hypocrites about sex?

Glenallen Walken — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:22:00 PDT

Our undercover Wingnut explains why John Ensign, David Vitter and Newt Gingrich still have political careers

Can we ever say a woman can't choose?

Frances Kissling — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:20:00 PDT

It's hard for pro-choicers to admit sometimes a woman shouldn't be allowed to choose abortion -- but we have to

Memo to President Obama

Robert Reich — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:20:00 PDT

Six things you must do to save universal healthcare

Dream big, Obama

David Sirota — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:19:00 PDT

The president should be a revolutionary, not just a reformer

An Obama "scandal" as phony as Whitewater

Joe Conason — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:23:00 PDT

The right finds a fake martyr in Gerald Walpin, a Bush holdover and right-wing ideologue fired by President Obama

President Obama has not betrayed the gay community

Chris Geidner — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:20:00 PDT

Despite early missteps, granting benefits to the same-sex partners of federal employees is proof he hears us

Does Obama's plan for Wall Street measure up?

Robert Reich — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:19:00 PDT

Take a wild guess

Sickly talk about fixing healthcare

Gene Lyons — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:15:00 PDT

President Obama, ditch the rhetoric about bipartisanship and enact reform with or without the GOP and the AMA

President Obama betrays the gay community

John Aravosis — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:18:00 PDT

We supported you. Time to live up to your promises

Let's hold Bush officials accountable for torture

Anthony Romero and Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:17:00 PDT

The ACLU's executive director joins with a military officer to ask for a special prosecutor for torture

Tweeting the revolution

Austin Heap — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:17:00 PDT

How I used Twitter to help the Iranian democracy movement from my home in San Francisco

The three essentials of financial reform

Robert Reich — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:17:00 PDT

Without them, Wall Street will revert to its bad old ways

It is summer 2009, and John McCain is president

Michael Lind — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:20:00 PDT

In which the author imagines what America would be like if the GOP's man had won. Critics of Obama, take note.

Dispatch from Tehran: Blood and defiance in Azadi Square

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:17:00 PDT

On Monday, huge crowds braved violence to protest the Iranian election results.

The street protests mount

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:16:00 PDT

A fresh report from the Iranian capital. The government uses machetes on the public, the public fights back.

Goodbye to cheap oil

Michael Klare — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:20:00 PDT

The world's shrinking supply of oil may have disastrous effects on the economy and our security.