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Discussing Israel/Gaza on right-wing talk radio: I had an unexpectedly substantive discussion of the Middle East and the "Islamic threat" on "The Hugh Hewitt Show" last night.; By Glenn Greenwald Jan 6, 2009
Is Caroline Kennedy "opting in"?: Despite what the New York Times Magazine argues, the wannabe senator's crass play for political power doesn't teach us much about moms reentering the workforce.; By Rebecca Traister Jan 6, 2009
Obama's impressive new OLC chief: A law professor with a history of strident condemnation of Bush radicalism is named to one of the most important positions in the executive branch.; By Glenn Greenwald Jan 5, 2009
Did I just buy an SUV?: I didn't mean to. I am an environmentalist. Really. But before I knew it, there it was, in front of my house.; By Mark Benjamin Jan 5, 2009
Sex and the superdelegates: It was a flaccid, unhot year in sex, but how about that election! Spitzer and Edwards may have gotten laid, but Barack and Hillary scored.; By Rebecca Traister Jan 4, 2009
Orwell, blinding tribalism, selective Terrorism, and Israel/Gaza: Extreme emotional and cultural identification with one side leads people to believe that X is good when done by them and evil when done to them.; By Glenn Greenwald Jan 4, 2009
Live! Nude! Puppies! The year in viral video: Except for those snuggly Shiba Inus, Sarah Palin and Tina Fey dominated as Web video went pro.; By Caitlin Shamberg Jan 3, 2009
More oddities in the U.S. "debate" over Israel/Gaza: Even for those insisting that Israel's attack on Gaza is both wise and just, what possible interest does the U.S. have in involving itself so directly in this dispute?; By Glenn Greenwald Jan 2, 2009
Red State Update: The year in review: Jackie and Dunlap weigh in on an epic year, from Russia in Georgia to shoes in Iraq.; Jan 1, 2009
Torture prosecutions finally begin in the U.S.: The Bush DOJ is actually demanding a 147 year sentence for a Liberian political official who ordered torture inside Liberia.; By Glenn Greenwald Dec 31, 2008
Best of Salon 2008: PUMAs on the prowl; an apology to boomers; the books that made Obama, Obama; hooray for casual sex -- and more of our favorite stories of the year.; By Salon Staff Dec 31, 2008
George Washington's warnings and U.S. policy towards Israel: Americans overwhelmingly want the U.S. to take no sides in the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Why is that view not just disregarded, but made into a taboo?; By Glenn Greenwald Dec 30, 2008
David Gregory shows why he's the perfect replacement for Tim Russert: The new Meet the Press star conducts an "interview" with the Israeli Foreign Minister that makes the media's pre-Iraq-war behavior look adversarial by comparison; By Glenn Greenwald Dec 29, 2008
Marty Peretz and the American political consensus on Israel: The New Republic Editor-in-Chief expresses anti-Arab hatred in the starkest terms possible, but are his policy views towards Israel any different from the standard American position?; By Glenn Greenwald Dec 28, 2008
Politico reviews the year in American "political journalism": Its list of the top 10 "political scoops" of 2008 says far more about the state of our political press than they could have possibly imagined; By Glenn Greenwald Dec 27, 2008
Torture ambivalence masquerading as moral and intellectual superiority: The consensus defense of the Bush torture regime -- "it was done with good motives" -- is almost as destructive as the torture itself; By Glenn Greenwald Dec 24, 2008
Year in Broadsheet: From Hillary Clinton to Sarah Palin, our ladyblog has had one heck of a year.; By Tracy Clark-Flory Dec 23, 2008
Goodbye to Guantánamo?: With just four weeks till Obama's inauguration, the Bush administration's military commissions are supposed to be history. So why does the government act like they'll continue past January 20?; By Stacy Sullivan Dec 23, 2008
Some observations after being involved in a Fox News report: The Fox tactics of distorting news are extreme, but they are far from uncommon; By Glenn Greenwald Dec 23, 2008
Cheney says top congressional Democrats complicit in spying: The vice president claims key Democrats were briefed in detail about the NSA program, actively approved of it and urged that it be kept secret.; By Glenn Greenwald Dec 22, 2008
If criminal penalties are removed, what will deter lawbreaking by political officials?: The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus advocates the ultimate self-contradictory claim: we need to forget about prosecutions in order to "ensure it never happens again"; By Glenn Greenwald Dec 20, 2008
How new is Obama's New Politics?: Many Obama supporters claim that including, accommodating and compromising with the right will create post-partisan harmony. When have Democrats not done that?; By Glenn Greenwald Dec 19, 2008
How the hell did Rick Warren get inauguration tickets?: Barack Obama knows liberals are upset he picked the conservative evangelical preacher to pray at the inauguration. And he doesn't care.; By Mike Madden Dec 19, 2008
Salon Radio: Pam Spaulding on Rick Warren: What's behind Obama's choice of one of America's most extremist pastors to deliver the invocation at his Inauguration?; By Glenn Greenwald Dec 18, 2008
Demands for war crimes prosecutions are now growing in the mainstream: The emerging evidence of culpability among top leaders, combined with their increasingly brazen admissions, is rendering real investigations an unavoidable option; By Glenn Greenwald Dec 18, 2008

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