Political science professors could require students to read this article from today's New York Times and little else would be needed to convey the essence of the American political system.

Is there any other nation in the world where a leading politician can appear in public--without controversy--wearing the flag of a foreign country? It was a huge scandal on the Right when immigration reform marchers waved Mexican (along with American) flags in order to display c …

Pro-lifers have always struggled with the invisibility of unborn life: millions of babies aborted every year, concealed in wombs behind closed doors.

Barack Obama, like George Bush before him, has claimed the authority to order American citizens murdered based solely on the unverified, uncharged, unchecked claim that they are associated with Terrorism and pose "a continuing and imminent threat to U.S.

The policy of slashing government spending during a near-depression, which the deficit hawks advocate, is insane. Even most intelligent conservative economists acknowledge this.

Over the weekend, Sen. Susan Collins released a five-minute video in which she sounded as though she had been possessed by the angriest, most unhinged version of Dick Cheney.

From Glenn Beck to Joe Scarborough, right-wing voices are loudly complaining that President Obama's remarks about the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United were false and insulting to the court.

Last Monday's arrest of James O'Keefe and three alleged accomplices in a scheme to manipulate the telephone system at the New Orleans offices of Sen. Mary Landrieu evokes a sense of wonder and even incredulity.

As I wrote at the time, I thought the condemnations of Rep. Joe Wilson's heckling of Barack Obama during his September health care speech were histrionic and excessive.

Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald used his space yesterday to comment on a recurring theme that seems to be emerging in the media with regard to the victory of Republican candidate Scott Brown in the election to fill Ted Kennedy's vacant Massachusetts Senate seat. According to Mr.

In responding to the attempted bombing of an airliner on Christmas Day, Sen.

Musing on several recent incidents involving al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists--including failed airline attacker Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab--Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald describes how U.S.

Every debate over expanded government surveillance power is invariably framed as one of "security v.

Writing in response to a Nigerian man's failed attempt to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner during the Christmas holiday, Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald discusses the degrading effect of terrorism fears on our political discourse. Mr.

Barack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the global economy melted down in that fateful fall of 2008...What's taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in  …

Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald used his column yesterday to highlight a new report from the Seton Hall University School of Law that raises "serious doubts" about the U.S. military's investigation into the June 2006 deaths of three detainees at Guantanamo prison.

President Barack Obama's just-announced plan for Afghanistan seems modeled less on Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam strategy than on George W. Bush's Iraq exit strategy.

Senator Evan Bayh was on Fox News yesterday demanding an escalation of the war in Afghanistan, while simultaneously rejecting the idea of a so-called "war tax" to pay for it.

Last night, former White House press secretary Dana Perino suggested that President Obama was "playing politics" by refusing to label the recent shootings at Fort Hood army base a terrorist attack. According to the Huffington Post, Ms.

Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald uses his space today to discuss the resignation of Phillip Carter, President Obama's top Pentagon official for detainee affairs, offering some cautious speculation as to the reasons for Mr. Carter's abrupt departure. Mr.

In a lengthy blog post at Salon.com, Glenn Greenwald highlights a Time magazine article regarding former White House counsel Greg Craig. "In essence," Mr.

In an article that appeared on Salon.com last Friday, author and journalist David Sirota looks at two recent opinion columns by leading Beltway opinion-makers David Broder and Jackson Diehl and wonders whether "we aren't turning into a full-on, slobbering idiocracy." The object o …

From the Associated Press came word this week of a new report issued by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) regarding a "resurgence" in the right-wing militia movement. According to the report, this resurgence coincides, in part, "with the advent of the Obama administration."

Earlier this week, the inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, a k a, the bank bailout fund, released his report on the 2008 rescue of the American International Group, the insurer.

As he continues to follow the case of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheihk Mohammed, Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald writes that by embracing military tribunals and indefinite detention for some terror suspects, the Obama administration is undercutting its own case for putting Mohamme …

Major Nidal Hasan, accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood Army base, has been described by former colleagues as "psychotic." As more details emerge about Hasan's troubled state, gun safety advocates are launching fresh attacks on a Senate bill they say would make it easier for …

In a thoughtful piece that appeared on the site last Thursday, Salon.com writer Mark Benjamin argues that the emerging narrative of the Fort Hood shootings--and the "political correctness vs. terrorism" debate that that coverage has engendered--largely misses the point.

According to HuffPo's Sam Stein, "(A) group of highly respected conservative figures lent their support to the transfer" of a group of terror suspects from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to a maximum-security prison in Thompson, Illinois.

Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald uses his space today to highlight an article by British journalist Johann Hari. Writing for London's The Independent, Mr. Hari examines a group of former Islamic militants who have committed themselves to teaching a more moderate form of Islam.

"This is literally true," writes Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald.

Senator Byron Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota, was one of eight senators who stood up to oppose the repeal of the Glass-Steagall act in 1999.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich sent a rather scathing letter to Mike Duncan on Tuesday, accusing the RNC chairman of engaging in "a destructive distraction" by attempting to tie Barack Obama to Rod Blagojevich.

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Salon.com's Glenn Greenwald comments on the release last week of a report by the Senate Armed Services Committee which finds that "former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior U.S.