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Five Years in Iraq: Best of the Media Five Years in Iraq: Best of the Media

Just imagine: You run a flagship national newspaper, the New York Times. It's the fifth anniversary of President Bush's catastrophic invasion of Iraq. Your own record of reporta...

Mar 18, 2008 / TomDispatch

Blackwater, the Campaign Issue Blackwater, the Campaign Issue

In this interview with RealNews, Nation Correspondent Jeremy Scahill explains how Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama differ on the use of private security contractors in Iraq.

Mar 18, 2008 / Jeremy Scahill and The Nation Video

Crisis is Opportunity Crisis is Opportunity

Maybe it's been my choice of panels, but thus far, the events I've attended here at Take Back America have felt curiously subdued. Under the pall of the plummeting economy and the...

Mar 18, 2008 / Chris Hayes

Hamilton Explains Hamilton Explains

How Alexander Hamilton "fell into as difficult a position as a public man has ever known, and extricated himself by means which show how much the conventional standards of morals h...

Mar 18, 2008 / The Editors

And a Half-Brother in China, Too And a Half-Brother in China, Too

To follow up on Chris's excellent commentary on the Obama-Wright media firestorm from this afternoon, here's the tally on how McCain has comparatively fared with the press (via FA...

Mar 18, 2008 / Chris Hayes

Notes on a Scandal Notes on a Scandal

The Spitzer affair's obvious rationality continues to elude the therapists, sexperts and pundits for whom shame is the game.

Mar 17, 2008 / JoAnn Wypijewski

Obama, Politics and the Pulpit Obama, Politics and the Pulpit

The uproar over intemperate remarks by Obama's former pastor reveals all that's repellant in our national discourse over race, religion and politics.

Mar 17, 2008 / Feature / Chris Hayes

A Winter Soldier Speaks A Winter Soldier Speaks

Camilo Mejia, speaking just now at TBA. (Quickly transcribed as he was speaking, so it may be imperfect): When you go half way around the world to brutalize a country, the pain...

Mar 17, 2008 / Chris Hayes

The Experts Speak on Iraq The Experts Speak on Iraq

To mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, some daily inspiration from the experts who led us there.

Mar 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky and Christopher Cerf

Obama Delegate Cushion May Smother Clinton Momentum Obama Delegate Cushion May Smother Clinton Momentum

At a point when most of the media is treating the race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as a highly competitive one, Obama has slowly but steadily increased his delegate l...

Mar 17, 2008 / John Nichols

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