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Peter Kornbluh on Obama and Cuba, Salamishah Tillet on boycotting marriage, George Zornick on Eric Griego v. Wall Street crooks, plus a new project on poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich and the Institute for Policy Studies.

In 2002 Washington deported an innocent man to Syria, where he was tortured. Why can’t we apologize?

Judging by his advisers, Romney would embrace Bush’s unilateral interventionism and massive military budgets.

How Pakistan makes Washington pay for the Afghan war.

Covert operations have now assumed a dominant—and destructive—role in US foreign policy.

Mohammed Nasheed, the deposed leader of the Maldives, recently visited the US to call for free and fair elections in his homeland—which may disappear underwater due to climate change.

What we lost in Iraq and Washington between 2009 and 2012.

The fierce campaign against whistle-blowers in Washington.

The Keystone fight showed ordinary Nebraskans their power. Will their unlikely alliance stick?

George Zornick on Keystone pipeline politics, Liliana Segura on Alabama’s death row “mailroom mix-up,” Daniel Denvir on Pennsylvania’s fracking fights, Dave Zirin on Muhammad Ali at 70