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US-Iraq Deal Stalled Again US-Iraq Deal Stalled Again

So far, at least, the only political bloc in Iraq to support the US-Iraq agreement that would allow the continuation of the American occupation are the Kurds. It doesn't look like...

Oct 21, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss

Wall Street Meltdown 101 Wall Street Meltdown 101

Naomi Klein, William Greider, Frances Fox Piven and others explain the financial crisis in a recent emergency town hall meeting in New York City.

Oct 21, 2008 / Nation Audio

Burning Cars and Suicides Burning Cars and Suicides

Back in the Great Depression years of the 1930s, unemployed writers, like unemployed steelworkers, were in need of jobs, and so the New Deal's Works Progress Administration, which ...

Oct 20, 2008 / TomDispatch

Jörg Haider’s Legacy Jörg Haider’s Legacy

Austria's most notorious right-wing politician died as spectacularly as he had lived--and in a Europe stunned by financial crisis, leaves a dangerous legacy.

Oct 20, 2008 / Feature / Slavenka Drakulic

Smearing Colonel Vandeveld Smearing Colonel Vandeveld

Military commissions officials are using punitive psychological evaluations as part of a strategy to discredit and silence a former colleague turned whistleblower.

Oct 20, 2008 / Feature / Ross Tuttle

Voter Registration Flashpoints Voter Registration Flashpoints

As we head into the final stretch of the election season, alarming reports of dysfunctional voter registration, purges of the rolls, and possible voter suppression are surfacing w...

Oct 20, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

SNL: Amy Poehler Raps About Palin and Alaska SNL: Amy Poehler Raps About Palin and Alaska

Amy Poehler brings the house down with a Sarah Palin-inspired hip hop ode to Alaska and the McCain campaign.

Oct 20, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Saturday Night Live

“Socialist” Is Not an Epithet “Socialist” Is Not an Epithet

"There is always a charge that socialism does not fit human nature. We've encountered that for a long time. Maybe that's true. But can't people be educated? Can't people learn to ...

Oct 20, 2008 / John Nichols

How I Committed Voter Fraud How I Committed Voter Fraud

This past week, I committed voter fraud. Or, I should say, "voter fraud" inside the same sarcastic scare quotes that John McCain deployed when he recently invoked that old tricky ...

Oct 20, 2008 / Chris Hayes

“Senior Members of My Own Party” “Senior Members of My Own Party”

The most striking thing to me about Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama on this morning's Meet the Press, was when he discussed the persistent rumors about Obama's faith. H...

Oct 19, 2008 / Chris Hayes

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