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The National Defense Authorization Act would authorize indefinite military detention for US citizens, stripping Americans of their constitutional rights.

Marcy Wheeler on indefinite detention for US citizens, Peter Kornbluh on the legacy of US complicity in Chile and the editors on Tony Kushner, winner of the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship.

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It is outrageous for any journalist, or respecter of what every American president has claimed is our inalienable, God-given right to a free press, not to join in Assange’s defense.

Obama makes reassuring noises about constraining executive power and protecting civil liberties, but then adopts whatever appalling policy Bush put in place.

Obama faces a presidency-defining choice: will he escalate in Afghanistan, or plot a new course?

Though Ken Salazar has vowed to clean up the mess at the Interior Department, his selection for director of the National Park Service, Jon Jarvis, only compounds it.

The news that Congress might terminate production of topline fighter jets comes as a considerable victory for President Obama and Defense Secretary Gates.

If the vice president ordered the CIA to deceive Congress, he broke the law--and must be held accountable.

With new revelations about the former veep
ordering the CIA to
lie to Congress, Democrats finally start talking about an investigation
that could hold him to account.