All older articles that appeared in this section through December 31, 2012 can be found in our archives. Starting in 2013 we will no longer be archiving articles in this section.

Good-bye Milton Friedman, Hello Joseph Stiglitz! Progressive Economists Can Help Save Working America
Pro-labor thinkers can change the terms of our economic debates.
By Henry M. Banta

As Experts Weigh in, Warmongers Emerge as Sole Opponents of Iran Nuke Deal
'Historic' deal signed in Geneva paves way for peaceful settlement and should be embraced, say analysts
By Jon Queally

Heroic Diplomacy: How Barack Obama Finally Earned That Peace Prize
By Robert Scheer
"Finally, Barack Obama may prove deserving of his Nobel Peace Prize by joining with England, France, China, Russia and Germany in negotiating an eminently sensible rapprochement with Iran on its nuclear program."

Noam Chomsky: America hates its poor
Linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky on our country's brutal class warfare -- and why it's ultimately so one-sided
By CHRIS STEELE

How to beat libertarians on the economy
While the right is united economically behind one main agenda, the left lacks such a consensus. Here's the solution
By MICHAEL LIND
"The mainstream right’s economic vision is libertarian, pure and simple: smaller government, lower taxes, free trade and deregulation."

GOP’s massive 2013 mistake: How the party ignored its terminal illness
Celebrating Obamacare's troubles, Republicans finish the year ignoring lessons it was supposed to learn from 2012
By JOAN WALSH

The right’s core dishonesty: How Obamacare became its own culture war
Hostilities to the law have become detached from the ideological and partisan antipathies that gave rise to them
By BRIAN BEUTLER
"An astute friend remarked to me on Tuesday that the GOP’s position on Obamacare is coming to resemble its position on abortion in one key way: loudly, consistently, uniformly opposed, but ultimately not really driven to eliminate it."

GOP debunked on food stamps: Everything they say about SNAP is wrong
Forget the nonsense about them breeding dependency. Food stamps increase self-sufficiency, research shows
By PAUL ROSENBERG

How Even a Proven Government Conspiracy Can Get Totally Dismissed by Corporate Media
The Contra-Cocaine exposes of the 80s laid bare a nefarious govt. orchestrated scheme. Big media outlets have attacked it ever since.
By Robert Parry

Academics should boycott Israel: Growing movement takes next step
A major scholarly group affirms a boycott over Palestine. They're right and ethical -- and widely misunderstood
By STEVEN SALAITA
"Academic boycott, quite simply, is a rejection of complicity in the Israeli government’s brutalization of Palestinians, a form of nonviolent resistance at the nexus of the globe’s greatest confluence of geopolitical power."

Max Blumenthal: I knew Alterman would freak out
"Goliath" author tells Salon about life in Israel lobby's cross hairs and the logic of the Jewish state (Updated)
By NATASHA LENNARD
"Thousands of protesters worldwide joined in a “Day of Rage” late last week to decry Israel’s despicable Prawer Plan, a government policy (wildly underreported in this country) to destroy 35 Arab villages in the Negev desert, which will lead to the forced displacement of up to 70,000 Bedouin Israeli citizens."

Noam Chomsky: The Dangerous Rogue States Operating in the Mideast -- U.S. and Israel
"Just how far will [Israel] go to eliminate the feared deterrent on the pretext of an 'existential threat'?"
By Noam Chomsky

ALEC’s chilling anti-green plot
Documents reveal the conservative alliance plans to attack state clean energy laws in 2014 -- and so much worse
By Lindsay Abrams

Bye-bye, fake liberals: The Warren Democrats are winning!
The backlash against an inane Op-Ed bashing Elizabeth Warren shows that “economic populism” is the way forward
By Joan Walsh

Top 10 Ways the US Is the Most Corrupt Country in the World
Americans are not seen as corrupt because we only deal in the big denominations. Steal $2 trillion and you aren’t corrupt, you’re respectable.
By Juan Cole

Rising number of drone killings raises questions about Obama’s rules for use
The number of deaths has risen in Yemen and Pakistan in the six months since the president imposed constraints
By Jack Serle

Mandela Taught a Continent to Forgive
By JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA
"In the early 1960s, fed up with the systematic oppression and inhumane treatment of indigenous Africans, Mandela successfully proposed a plan of violent tactics and guerrilla warfare, essentially forming the military wing of the African National Congress."

America’s meat addiction is slaughtering the planet
More than half of all carbon emissions come from the livestock industry that supports the meat economy
By DAVID SIROTA

Joe Scarborough doesn’t get it: How GOP and big banks sabotaged Detroit
No, unions didn't kill the Motor City. "In one sense the banks caused it," ex-banker Wallace Turbeville explains
By JOSH EIDELSON

How the right tried to ruin Nelson Mandela
Powerful conservatives spent decades trying to take down the South African leader
By PETER FINOCCHIARO

Why is Iraq among the most corrupt countries in the world?
By Fatih Abdulsalam
"The index tells that even in the case of a new government and a new ruler, both will certainly continue the path of their predecessors and turn into big thieves."

United States, Israel opposed Mandela, supported Apartheid
By Juan Cole
"We should remember that for much of the West in the Cold War, South Africa’s thriving capitalist economy was what was important."

The journalist who hacked the old system
By DAVID SIROTA
"Over the last few months, both journalists have been breaking big news from the tranche of NSA documents Snowden obtained — Greenwald for many venues, Gellman for the Washington Post. Yet, among the two, only Greenwald has been subjected to treatment typically reserved for society’s worst criminals."

Nelson Mandela: Obama, Clinton, Cameron, Blair – Tributes of Shameful Hypocrisy
By Felicity Arbuthnot

Limbaugh conservatism’s next test: Anti-women dogma’s inevitable cost
With SCOTUS considering contraception requirements for health care, conservatives are approaching another landmine
By BRIAN BEUTLER

5 ways America is violated by corporate greed
Arguably the most egregious? We're paying our telecommunications companies to spy on us
By PAUL BUCHHEIT

Real Journalism v. Big Brother
By Norman Solomon
"Every new revelation about the global reach of the National Security Agency underscores that the extremism of the surveillance state has reached gargantuan proportions. The  Washington Post  just  reported  that the NSA 'is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world.'"

Hypocrisy, dogma and sabotage: The right’s stepping into an Obamacare trap
Contrary to popular opinion, the GOP's hurting itself when it knocks Obamacare. Here's why its attacks are so risky
By R.J. ESKOW
"You don’t have to be an unqualified fan of the Affordable Care Act to recognize the lunacy of most Republican objections to it."

Right-wing garbage debunked: No, regulation doesn’t kill jobs
The right loves to warn that regulations will harm "job creators." A new report explains why that's nonsense
By Sean McElwee

Ask “Col. Manners”: A satiric advice column about the security state
The esteemed officer answers your questions on war etiquette, nuclear threats and surveillance
By TOM ENGELHARDT

Tribunal Issues Landmark Verdict against Israel for Genocide
By Yoichi Shimatsu
"The landmark ruling against Israel for its genocide against the Palestinian people rendered by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal is significant for several reasons..."

Intelligence committee chairs want you scared. You should be angry
Feinstein and Rogers invoke the old boogeyman of rising terrorism in a cheap attempt to defend surveillance state
By Natasha Lennard

Stop whining, centrists: Bipartisanship is a myth that’s never existed
While Beltway elite pine for the "good old days" and condemn filibuster reform, they're wrong on the history
By MICHAEL LIND
"But while partisan polarization was lower in the past, ideological polarization—disagreements on the basis of philosophy and values—has always been high."

A Saudi-Israeli Defeat on Iran Deal
By Robert Parry
"The interim agreement restraining Iran’s nuclear program represents a stern international rebuke to the new Saudi-Israeli alliance which sought to thwart the deal and maneuver the United States into another military confrontation in the Middle East."

Right-wing extremists face new moral conundrum
When Healthcare.gov actually starts working, GOP will have to choose between politics or their constituents' health
By BRIAN BEUTLER

In the national security state, what is everyone so afraid of?
We've created a society where everyone's scared all the time, and it serves the interests of defense contractors
By TOM ENGELHARDT
"Meanwhile, to the tune of a trillion dollars or more a year, our national treasure has been squandered on the maintenance of a war state, the garrisoning of the planet, and the eternal upgrading of 'homeland security.'”

Paul Krugman: California proves Obamacare is going to work
The New York Times columnist says to look to the California example for proof of Obamacare's viability
By ELIAS ISQUITH

Bill Nye: Future of U.S. economy at stake in Texas Board of Education evolution debate
The Science Guy weighs in on how teaching kids about evolution will impact the U.S. economy well into the future
By ELIAS ISQUITH

Silencing Dissent in Egypt
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
"The military-backed government that has ruled Egypt for the past five months is looking increasingly like the old dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak without Mr. Mubarak."

Israel — Just Another Hapless British Colony
By John Kozy
"When the English convinced the members of the United Nations Security Council to create the state of Israel by partitioning Palestine it did so to promote English national Interests, not because anyone cared for the welfare of Jews."

The UN General Assembly Should Pass Strong Privacy Resolution on the Right to Privacy in the Digital Age
By KATITZA RODRIGUEZ Electronic Frontier Foundation 

The false analogy of Syria and Palestine
By Jonathan Cook
"First, Gaza is not like Syria because Palestinians live under a belligerent occupation, not in a unified, if failing state run by a dictator."

The Empire Strikes Back 
How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick Scheme -- Again 
By Laura Gottesdiener
"Lucky for us, Wall Street has devised a solution: It's going to rent these foreclosed houses back to us. In the process, it's devised a new form of securitization that could cause this whole plan to blow up -- again."

The Secret Mission of William J. Burns
By James Wall
"Currently serving as the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, Burns  has just completed a far more significant secret mission. He has led 'a secret U.S. back channel to Iran going back to before the June election of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.'"

Demolishing Eight Common Excuses People Make for NSA Mass Surveillance
By Cindy Cohn and Trevor Timm
Electronic Frontier Foundation
"Point out how mass surveillance leaves you at the mercy of not only the NSA, but also to the DEA, the FBI and even the IRS."

The Right's Misconstrued Constitution
By Robert Parry
"After all, if corporations have First Amendment rights of 'free speech' when they are financing political propaganda to influence the outcome of U.S. elections, there is a consistency -- albeit a bizarre one -- to extending to corporations the First Amendment's 'religious freedom.'"  

A New G.O.P. Excuse for Doing Nothing
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD

Are drones “Obama’s Guantanamo?”
By pursuing targeted assassinations, President Obama could be undoing the concept of what a "just-war" means
By LLOYD C. GARDNER
"Do the United States and its people really want to tell those of us who live in the rest of the world that our lives are not of the same value as yours?"

America’s angriest white men: Up close with racism, rage and Southern supremacy
Up close with small-town white rage, with bitter, scary men who feel left behind by economic and cultural change
By MICHAEL KIMMEL

Jeremy Hammond: Stung or entrapped?
The case of the Stratfor hacker raises troubling questions about FBI's involvement in catching or creating crime
By NATASHA LENNARD

Is the world finally ready to do something about climate change?
The "super typhoon" in the Philippines was only the latest sign that we're facing an almost incomprehensible threat
By MICHAEL KLARE, TOMDISPATCH
"None of us can predict the future, but when it comes to a mass rebellion against the perpetrators of global destruction, we can see a glimmer of the coming upheaval in events of the present moment."

How to silence GOP nuts — and stop the Obamacare repeal campaign
One still-plausible scenario could stop attacks on the president's "You can keep it" comment dead in its tracks
By BRIAN BEUTLER
"If fixing Healthcare.gov takes significantly longer than the Obama administration is forecasting — if the bottleneck persists and enrollments never spike — political, moral and substantive considerations change."

Neocons Shift Case for Killing Iran Deal
By Paul R. Pillar
"The neocons are back at their battle stations doing all they can in Official Washington to destroy a possible agreement to curtail Iran’s nuclear program, since a deal would make a new Mideast war less likely, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar notes."

The Obamacare Crisis
By THOMAS B. EDSALL

Democracy Returns to the Senate
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD

7 disturbing ways the Pentagon mismanages its massive budget
An explosive new Reuters report reveals book-cooking and worse
By TIMOTHY MCGRATH, GLOBALPOST

Could austerity give rise to American fascism?
Europe's lesson: When parties on the right and left fail to deliver relief to the people, extremism takes hold
By MARSHALL AUERBACK, ALTERNET

Why People Should Stop Comparing Healthcare.gov Problems to Deadly Hurricanes
It's a Damn Technology Problem
From Media Matters / By Oliver Willis

Where New JFK Evidence Points
by Jim DiEugenio

Republicans’ health care hypocrisy
Another way conservatives are actively looking to undermine Obamacare
By JOSHUA HOLLAND, BILLMOYERS.COM

How Wall Street — not pensioners — wrecked Detroit
While clueless elites continue to blame "reckless public pensions," a new report tells a very different story
By DAVID SIROTA

Meet the Koch funded “stink tanks” that are influencing policy
By disguising corporate propaganda as legitimate research they're pushing a hard-right agenda
By JOSHUA HOLLAND, BILLMOYERS.COM

Surveillance Goes on Trial
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD

There’s nothing compassionate about Paul Ryan’s conservatism
Don't be fooled by the congressman's latest efforts to rebrand himself. His policies are disastrous for the poor
By JOE CONASON, ALTERNET

Noam Chomsky: America is a terrified country
The philosopher on the violence we wage abroad, the income inequality we face at home and where we go from here
By CATHERINE KOMP, TRUTHOUT.ORG

Feeding the Flame of Revolt
By Chris Hedge
" The corporate state, rapidly losing credibility and legitimacy, is lashing out like a wounded animal. It is frightened. It feels the heat from a rising flame of revolt. It is especially afraid of those such as Hammond who have the technical skills to break down electronic walls and expose the corrupt workings of power."

The Long Goodbye in Afghanistan
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
"In all this time, he has not made a clear and cogent case for any particular number of troops or explained how a residual force can improve the competency of Afghan forces when a much broader and intensive American engagement over the last decade has not."

WMD Guilt? With Obamacare, The Press Keeps Trying To Minimize Iraq War
By Eric Boehlert

Who Controls US Foreign Policy?
By Robert Parry

The Revolutionaries in Our Midst
By Chris Hedges
"Freedom of the press and legal protection for those who expose government abuses and lies have been obliterated by the corporate state."

Wal-Mart: An economic cancer on our cities
In Asheville, N.C., a dense downtown generated jobs and tax revenue and restored the city's soul
By CHARLES MONTGOMERY

How Evil Can the CIA and NSA Get? How to Restrain US Intelligence Agencies
By Rob Kall

Stop thanking the troops for me: No, they don’t “protect our freedoms!”
Why is pro sports constantly jamming military fervor down our throats? Their claims are wrong in more ways than one
By JUSTIN DOOLITTLE
"The combination of unanimous, entirely uncritical appreciation for the military, and the irrational belief that we owe gratitude to the troops for virtually everything we cherish in life, up to and including freedom itself, is very dangerous for our intellectual culture. It stifles any potential for rational, coherent discussion on these matters."

“A lot of them kill their wives”: Journalist warns of 'post-deployment crime waves'
"If we stop sentimentalizing these combat soldiers," author Ann Jones tells Salon, U.S. could 'rise up' against war
By Josh Eidelson

GOP’s newest demented crusade: War on mothers
A Bush and Romney economic adviser compares having a baby with buying a Porsche. They can’t be this dumb, can they?
By JOAN WALSH

Thom Hartmann: Libertarians are pushing us over a cliff
The author says we'll get sensible financial regulation, but not until conservative "predators" destroy the economy
By ALEX HALPERIN
"The great recession? As he sees it, that  was a tremor before the big one. It’s coming and just one of the causes might be the unregulated derivatives market measured in hundreds of trillions of dollars, several times as much as the conventional global economy."

All older articles that appeared in this section through December 31, 2012 can be found in our archives. Starting in 2013 we will no longer be archiving articles in this section.