Blind in Afghanistan Blind in Afghanistan
One of the paradoxes of America's bumbling intervention in Afghanistan is that the United States knows next to nothing about the country it is occupying.
Jan 6, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Puzzle No. 653 Puzzle No. 653
ACROSS
1 Not the campfires watched, by Rebel pickets. (8,6)
Jan 6, 2010 / Frank W. Lewis
Blackwater and the Khost Bombing: Is the CIA Deceiving Congress? Blackwater and the Khost Bombing: Is the CIA Deceiving Congress?
Two Blackwater contractors died in a December 30 suicide bombing at a CIA station in Afghanistan, suggesting that the company is more enmeshed in CIA business than the agency admit...
Jan 6, 2010 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
What Happened to Obama’s Movement? What Happened to Obama’s Movement?
The Obama campaign was a massive grassroots mobilization, but a year later, has the organization that grew out of it failed to keep up the momentum?
Jan 6, 2010 / GRITtv
McCain Gets It, Obama Doesn’t McCain Gets It, Obama Doesn’t
Although Obama has blasted "fat cat bankers on Wall Street," it is time for those who elected him to ask for more than rhetoric.
Jan 6, 2010 / Column / Robert Scheer
2010 Isn’t 1994…Yet 2010 Isn’t 1994…Yet
With the revelation last night/this morning that veteran Democratic Senators Christopher Dodd(CT) and Byron Dorgan (ND) are not seeking re-electionthis year, the mainstream press...
Jan 6, 2010 / Adam Howard
Dorgan Retirement Will Rob Senate of One of its Last Populists Dorgan Retirement Will Rob Senate of One of its Last Populists
Few senators in either party have more steadily challenged the entrenched powers that be than Byron Dorgan, the North Dakota Democrats who traced his political roots to the proudl...
Jan 6, 2010 / John Nichols
Extra, Extra–Read All About ACORN Extra, Extra–Read All About ACORN
On Christmas Eve, buried on page A24 of my edition of the New York Times, was this story: "The controversial community organizing group Acorn has not broken any laws in the la...
Jan 5, 2010 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Who Are You Calling Crazy? Who Are You Calling Crazy?
Madness was a recurring theme in American politics last year. I received daily calls, emails, texts, and tweets from folks on the Left declaring "these Republicans are crazy,"...
Jan 5, 2010 / Melissa Harris-Perry
Al Sharpton Wants Gilbert Arenas Punished. Seriously. Al Sharpton Wants Gilbert Arenas Punished. Seriously.
Whenever racism rears its head in sports, the Reverend Al Sharpton has usually had something important to say. In the process, he has proudly earned the contempt of the sports radi...
Jan 5, 2010 / Dave Zirin