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.

Yes He Can, on Immigration
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
"If President Obama means what he says about wanting an immigration system that reflects American values, helps the economy and taps the yearnings of millions of Americans-in-waiting, he is going to have to do something about it — soon and on his own."

GOP’s woman-haters club swells: Why their hatred is actually getting worse
From Christie to Limbaugh the right's view of women is steeped in the 18th century. It may finally catch up to them
Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg

The Crucible of Iraq
By Chris Hedges
"'The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of Iraq,' by Hassan Blasim, is the most important book to come out of the Iraq War....By the end of this short-story collection the reader grasps, in a way no soldier's memoir or journalistic account from Iraq can explicate, the crucible of war and the unmitigated horror of violence itself. The book is a masterpiece."

How to Silence the Israeli Right
By Shmuel Rosner
"Last month, the American billionaire Sheldon Adelson bought a small, right-wing religious newspaper in Israel, Makor Rishon, for 17 million shekels, about $5 million."

Is Charles Koch "Un-American"? Let Thomas Jefferson Decide
By Richard (RJ) Eskow
"While Jefferson rejected the aristocracy of money, the Koch brothers have taken the lead in organizing it."

Seymour Hersh Does It Again! Killing in the name of
By Michael Collins
"Hersh's sources claim that Denis McDonough, Obama chief of staff, made sure that President Obama was unaware of intelligence implicating Turkey in chemical weapons production and use by Syrian rebels, according to Hersh's sources."

How Many Watch Lists Fit on the Head of a Pin?
Post-Constitutional America, Where Innocence is a Poor Defense
By Peter Van Buren
"Ibrahim was no threat to anyone, innocent of everything, and ended up on that list only due to a government mistake. Nonetheless, she was not allowed to reenter the U.S. to finish her studies or even attend her trial and speak in her own defense."

Was Turkey Behind Syrian Sarin Attack?
By Robert Parry
"Last August, the Obama administration lurched to the brink of invading Syria after blaming a Sarin gas attack outside Damascus on President Bashar al-Assad's government, but new evidence -- reported by investigative journalist Seymour M. Hersh -- implicates Turkish intelligence and extremist Syrian rebels instead."

Why Inequality Matters and What Can Be Done About It
By Joseph Stiglitz
"We have betrayed one of our most fundamental values. And the result is that we are wasting our most valuable resource, our human resources: millions of those at the bottom are not able to live up to their potential."

Neocons are back — and worse than ever! Debunking their unthinkable new defense
You'd think disastrous failures would shame the Bush-loving neocons into hiding. Here's why they need to go -- now
By FREDDIE DEBOER

Global rankings study: America in warp-speed decline
From access to healthcare and education to gender equality, the U.S. resembles a second-rate nation
By CJ WERLEMAN

Robert Reich: 7 reasons we should raise the minimum wage — to $15 an hour
$10.10 is a nice start, but the truth is it's not enough to lift all workers and their families out of poverty
By ROBERT REICH

5 theocrats in Congress who care more about the Bible than the Constitution
The Secular Coalition for America has releases its congressional report card. These pols' grades aren't pretty
By DAN AREL

Benghazi: ‘The Administration Has Won’
By JULIET LAPIDOS

Thank you for talking about inequality — but we’re all doing it wrong!
Everyone talks about a "gap" between rich and poor as if that will move voters. Here's what research says instead
By ANAT SHENKER-OSORIO
"When most everyone considers him or herself a 'have' – because the alternative is an appellation too reviled to claim – hearing there’s a division between them and some non-existent other is no big deal."

Barack Obama pulls a George W. Bush: Lies, misinformation and chemical weapons
Remember the almost-war in Syria last year? An amazing new report -- which our media won't touch -- is a must read
By PATRICK L. SMITH
"In less than a year, the Obama administration has mounted four covert coup operations, all variants of the classic Cold War model, all costly of human life, all assuring us the contempt and animosity of many people for years to come."

The right’s new climate change lie: It’s all the scientists’ fault
Conservative hucksters argue scientists are politicizing their work. They're wrong -- and climate change is real
By DALE JAMIESON
"As we will see, the politicization of science by a handful of climate change deniers and their patrons is extremely well documented, and continues to be a major obstacle to the United States adopting effective climate policy."

With McCutcheon Ruling, An Activist Court Opts for Full-On Plutocracy
By John Nichols
"Any doubts about the determination of an activist United States Supreme Court to rewrite election rules so that the dollar matters more than the vote were removed Wednesday, when McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission was decided in favor of the dollar."

What’s good for Wal-Mart isn’t good for America
If unionized workers can't demand a fair share of the nation’s growing economic wealth, we're all doomed
By RICHARD KIRSCH
"When a Walmart opens up, local businesses close. Wages decline throughout the community."

The Senate’s Discourtesy to Judges
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD

Who’s Who in Ukraine’s New “Semi-fascist” Government: Meet the People the U.S. and EU are Supporting
By Brian Becker
"The new, self-appointed government in Kiev is a coalition between right-wing and outright fascist forces, and the line between the two is often difficult to discern."

3 terrible signs that our fossil-fuel addiction is getting worse
When the New York Times starts shilling for fracking and Obama goes soft on BP, you know there's a major problem
By MICHAEL KLARE

A 15-Year Murder Spree
By David Swanson

The right’s day-after freakout: Conservatives fail to grapple with new Obamacare reality
The campaign to discourage Obamacare enrollment failed miserably -- and now the haters don't have a new plan
By BRIAN BEUTLER

10 Things Elizabeth Warren's Consumer Protection Agency Has Done for You
The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is already shielding Americans from shady dealings by mortgage lenders, student loan servicers, and credit card companies.
By Erika Eichelberger

Mr. Ryan’s Faith-Based Budget
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD

GOP’s hideous strategy to survive as the “white party”
Trifecta of voter suppression, despair and gerrymandering means a plan with no new ideas. But also: No new voters!
By JOAN WALSH

8 places that do healthcare better than the U.S.
Monday was the last day to sign up for Obamacare. Maybe now it's time to up and move to France
By JESSICA PHELAN

The Court Follows the Money
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
"In the court’s most significant campaign-finance ruling since Citizens United in 2010, five justices voted to eliminate sensible and long-established contribution limits to federal political campaigns."

The GOP’s perpetual war drum explained: Why are Republicans so eager for conflict?
From Iraq to the Ukraine: How warmongering has been woven into the party's intellectual DNA
By CJ WERLEMAN

Obamacare politics transformed: Burden of proof now falls on the doomsayers
This week's Obamacare milestone schooled the haters and deniers -- and that's a good thing for the law and nation
By BRIAN BEUTLER

How to Squeeze the Political Parties
The Campaign Finance Ruling Helps Big Donors
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD

John Roberts’ humiliating arrogance: Wingnuts reveal contempt for democracy
Chief justice's latest blow to campaign finance usurps the role of Congress, a legal expert explains
By JOSH EIDELSON

McCutcheon, the Majority, and the Challenge of Our Time
By Richard (RJ) Eskow
"The Supreme Court's  McCutcheon  ruling will be remembered as a decisive battle in a determined and wealthy minority's war against the popular will."

Creationists endure rough few weeks: Why the flat-earth crowd is in trouble
From "Cosmos" to evidence of Big Bang, it's been a tricky time for biblical literalists. Here's why it'll get worse
By PAUL ROSENBERG

Someone teach John Kerry about history!
There's a reason why Putin makes Kerry and the president look clownish: He understands the history others forget
By PATRICK L. SMITH
"No one can claim to know what Putin thinks of spheres-of-influence diplomacy and strategy. But his thinking has to be shaped by NATO’s presence on Russia’s borders."

The Plutocratic Jurisprudence of the Roberts 5: Episode VII
By Rob Hager

Greediest family on earth: Proof Koch brothers have just one political principle
The Koch brothers like to pretend they're high-minded free marketers. Here's proof it's a scam
By BRIAN BEUTLER

SCOTUS Rulings First with Citizens United, now McCutcheon are The Smoking Guns Revealing a Completely Broken System
By Dave Lefcourt

Dirty secret behind McCutcheon: Why everyone’s getting the “winners and losers” wrong
This isn't just about Democrats and Republicans -- it's also about intra-party battles and the job of a legislator
By JIM NEWELL

CIA Torture and the Threat of Dictatorship
By Patrick Martin
"According to a McClatchy News Service follow-up to the Post report, more than half of the 100 prisoners were subjected to some form of torture, and as many as five died during interrogation."

US Killing Machine Turns On Itself
By Finian Cunningham
"When a country’s military has been turned into nothing more than a criminal killing and torture machine we should not be surprised when its own ranks in turn become seized with all sorts of psychosis and pathology."

The Media’s Disinformation Campaign on Ukraine: “There are No neo-Nazis in the Interim Government”
By Professor John Ryan

Robert Reich: SCOTUS is inviting an American oligarchy
The former secretary of labor on the Court's shameful McCutcheon decision -- and where we go from here
By ROBERT REICH

Supreme Court Traitors Sell Out America Again With McCutcheon Decision
By Rob Kall

When Nature Looks Unnatural
By SEAN CARROLL
"Nature is not always so kind, however. Fields like particle physics and cosmology sometimes include good theories that fit all the data but nevertheless seem unsatisfying to us."

The Hope Diet: Would the Tea Party fall for this?
Barack Obama and Bill Clinton both peddled a diet of hope. It's time for Democrats to demand more of a sure thing
By THOMAS FRANK
"To describe politics in terms of 'hope' fundamentally misrepresents the situation we are in, and by misrepresenting, gets the Democrats off the hook time and again. It is hope that allows them to sell us out over and over."

Neocons’ Ukraine-Syria-Iran Gambit
By Robert Parry
"They keep hatching new schemes and strategies to keep the world stirred up and to keep their vision of world domination – and particularly 'regime change' in the Middle East – alive."

US ‘Exceptionalism’ Boomerangs in Ukraine
Official Washington thinks “American exceptionalism” means the U.S. government can ignore international law when intervening in other countries. But that hypocrisy is now coming back to bite the U.S. with Russia’s annexation of Crimea
By Paul Pillar

Sanctions? How About Sanctions Against the United States?
By Andy Piascik
"As the United States imposes sanctions on Russia and moves to do likewise to Venezuela, it?s essential to keep in mind which country it is that?s the most destructive and dangerous in the world today."

Refine your NSA outrage: Spying on Chinese networks is not the big shocker
Latest revelations from Snowden's trove are significant, but we musn't lump together all NSA stories
By NATASHA LENNARD

Mr. Obama’s Limits on Phone Records
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
"If President Obama really wants to end the bulk collection of Americans’ telephone records, he doesn’t need to ask the permission of Congress, as he said on Tuesday he would do. He can just end it himself, immediately."

How Strong Will the Anti-Democratic Backlash Be?
By Thomas B. Edsall
"Why isn’t the Republican Party paying a heavy price for its dependence on a shrinking white electorate, its rejection of immigration reform and its 'just say no' legislative strategy?"

Current Iran "Crisis" Began With Overthrow of Democratically Elected Government in 1953
By Mark Karlin

The New Tribalism and the Decline of the Nation State
By Robert Reich
"We are witnessing a reversion to tribalism around the world, away from nation states. The same pattern can be seen even in America -- especially in American politics."

Changing Israel from Without
By Dennis Bernstein

Invasion of the Data Snatchers
Big Data and the Internet of Things Means the Surveillance of Everything
By Catherine Crump and Matthew Harwood
"Estimates vary, but by 2020 there could be over 30 billion devices connected to the Internet. Once dumb, they will have smartened up thanks to sensors and other technologies embedded in them and, thanks to your machines, your life will quite literally have gone online.

U.S. Opposes Russia’s “Theft of Crimea” but U.S. Supports Israel’s “Theft of Palestine”
By Mohamed Khodr

Special report: Taxpayers fund creationism in the classroom
By STEPHANIE SIMON

Government claims “national defense” excuse to keep Mandela files secret
MIT researcher Ryan Shapiro filed suit against NSA, CIA, FBI for failure to comply with Mandela files FOIA requests
By NATASHA LENNARD

The great Tea Party swindle: How to make lots of money off the naive
Tea Party PACs raise a ton of money from conservatives -- and spend it on enriching their friends
By ALEX PAREENE
"Roll Call recently ran the numbers on spending by a number of Tea Party groups, and they are all spending quite a bit on overhead and 'office expenses' and travel and not that much on actual candidates."

OBAMA JUST OPENED THE DOOR FOR SNOWDEN'S IMMUNITY
Obama's overhaul of the NSA spying rules proves it
By Michael Maiello

A Whitewash for Gov. Christie
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD

Hobby Lobby’s secret agenda: How it’s quietly funding a vast right-wing movement
Exclusive: How entities related to the company are quietly pumping tens of millions into a mélange of fringe causes
By Eli Clifton

Scalia’s pseudo-science complex: Phony claims, delusions and bogus ideas
These robed men may interpret the law of the land -- but it doesn't mean they understand how basic biology works
By Katie Mcdonough

Robert Reich: Billionaires are poisoning American democracy
The former secretary of labor examines how the Kochs and Adelsons use their vast wealth to undermine the law
By Robert Reich

Stop defending the Iraq War! Revising history will only lead to more mistakes
The president's recent explanation of America's invasion of Iraq overlooks key lessons the nation must learn
By Justyn Dillingham

On the Wrong Side of Globalization
By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ
"Right now, there are trade proposals in the works that threaten to put most Americans on the wrong side of globalization."

A Broken Military Justice System
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD

This is the scientific consensus on climate change
A new report clarifies the facts and urges Americans to take action
By LINDSAY ABRAMS

Conspiracy theories running rampant: How misinformation spreads on Facebook
Researchers studied how people interacted with "trolls" posting false information -- the results are terrifying
By SARAH GRAY
"Those who engaged with false information posted by trolls were more often readers of alternative news — or as the study says, those who do not trust mainstream sources."

From creationism to ESP: Why believers ignore science
A journalist's investigation of strange beliefs and the people who hold them leaves him questioning himself
By LAURA MILLER

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.