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This Week: The Ashes of Triangle Fire. PLUS: GOP’s Despicable Politics This Week: The Ashes of Triangle Fire. PLUS: GOP’s Despicable Politics

This week, we commenorate the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire with an essay by Joshua Freeman, AFL-CIO's Tula Connell and a must see slideshow. I wei...

Mar 25, 2011 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Breakdown: Is the US Military Action in Libya Unconstitutional?

The Breakdown: Is the US Military Action in Libya Unconstitutional? The Breakdown: Is the US Military Action in Libya Unconstitutional?

Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle have started questioning the constitutionality of Obama's announcement that the US will pursue military operations in Libya.

Mar 25, 2011 / Audio / Chris Hayes

The Libya Intervention

The Libya Intervention The Libya Intervention

Military “solutions” to grave humanitarian crises are tempting, but history shows that they rarely solve anything.

Mar 24, 2011 / Editorial / The Editors

The Innocence of the Liberal Hawk

The Innocence of the Liberal Hawk The Innocence of the Liberal Hawk

Libya is not Iraq. And yet the flaws in logic, strategy and morality remain the same.

Mar 24, 2011 / Beneath the Radar / Gary Younge

Obama Doesn’t Need a Foreign Policy Doctrine Obama Doesn’t Need a Foreign Policy Doctrine

The uprisings in the Arab world are too complex to be reduced to a one-size-fits-all doctrine.

Mar 24, 2011 / The Notion / Ari Berman

Imagine No Religion: It’s Coming True in Nine Countries Imagine No Religion: It’s Coming True in Nine Countries

Lennon’s song turns out to be not so utopian.

Mar 24, 2011 / The Notion / Jon Wiener

Taking Aim at the Pentagon Budget

Taking Aim at the Pentagon Budget Taking Aim at the Pentagon Budget

Economic crisis, deficit mania and war weariness have created political momentum for big cuts to military spending.

Mar 23, 2011 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss

A Parade of Arrogance: On John Dower A Parade of Arrogance: On John Dower

During war, John Dower explains, “the system filters out the thoughtful and replaces them with the faithful.”

Mar 23, 2011 / Books & the Arts / George Scialabba

Wake Up! End the Silence on Afghanistan Wake Up! End the Silence on Afghanistan

It's time to resolve the disconnect between public opinion and government policy towards Afghanistan.

Mar 23, 2011 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel

What Makes Saudi Arabia a ‘Good’ Tyranny? What Makes Saudi Arabia a ‘Good’ Tyranny?

How long will the US and its allies ignore the elephant in the room posed by an alliance for human rights and anti-terrorism with regimes in the Middle East that stand for neithe...

Mar 23, 2011 / Robert Scheer

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