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.

Why Republicans Don’t Want to Acknowledge the Falling Deficit
By DAVID FIRESTONE
"If the public really understood how much the deficit has fallen, it would undermine the party’s excuse for opposing every single spending program, exposing the 'cost to future generations.'”

Robert Reich: Lousy wages are the real job killers
The former labor secretary explains why it's in corporate America's best interest to raise the minimum wage
By ROBERT REICH

The US Arrogance Stirs Me
By Bruce Gagnon

Ukraine: One "Regime Change" Too Many?
By Ray McGovern
"Unless Obama is completely bereft of advisers who know something about Russia, it should have been a "known-known" (pardon the Rumsfeldian mal mot) that the Russians would react this way to a putsch removing Yanukovich."

How to survive a future without water
As history-defying droughts become more common, Americans will be forced to cope with the reality of water scarcity
By HENRY GRABAR

Remove the Obstacle to Real Peace
By LARA FRIEDMAN
"A policy of boycotting settlements – adopted by nations and people who care about Israel – can push Israeli leaders to finally choose: Do they stand with settlements or do they stand with an Israel that truly seeks peace with its neighbors?"

GOP’s “inane” war on science: Plasma physicist congressman takes on the denialists
Retiring Rep. Rush Holt tells us why "millions will die" due to climate change -- but why the solution is a bargain
By JOSH EIDELSON

How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
By Glenn Greenwald
"One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction."

Just don’t mention the wars! John Kerry’s stunning hypocrisy over Ukraine
"You just don’t invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests" Kerry said without irony
By NATASHA LENNARD
"One needn’t celebrate Russia’s increasingly aggressive interventionism regarding Ukraine to highlight the veritable buffet of hypocrisy spewing from U.S. officials over this current ersatz-Cold War moment."

Has Privacy Become a Luxury Good?
By JULIA ANGWIN

What Neocons Want from Ukraine Crisis
By Robert Parry
"Though I'm told the Ukraine crisis caught both Obama and Putin by surprise, the neocon determination to drive a wedge between the two leaders has been apparent for months, especially after Putin brokered a deal to head off U.S. military strikes against Syria last summer and helped get Iran to negotiate concessions on its nuclear program."

Suffering? Well, You Deserve It
By Chris Hedges
"If we continue down a path of mounting scarcities, along with economic stagnation or decline, this neoclassical model is ominous. It could be used to justify repression in an effort to sustain a vision that does not correspond to the real world."

Heard the One About Obama Denouncing a Breach of International Law?
By Norman Solomon
"Unfortunately, during the last five years, no world leader has done more to undermine international law than Barack Obama. He treats it with rhetorical adulation and behavioral contempt, helping to further normalize a might-makes-right approach to global affairs that is the antithesis of international law."

Palling Around with Neo-Nazis
By Donn Marten
"The entire establishment media has yet to bother mentioning that the coup d'etat that sent Ukranian President Viktor Yanukovych fleeing in fear of his life was heavily dependent on the support of extremist neo-Nazi elements that western agitators not only embraced but supported."

New weird order: 21st century defying everything history taught us
The world's lone superpower is in decline, but no other state seems poised to take advantage. What's going on?
By TOM ENGELHARDT

Bible barons: How the GOP uses religion to keep voters captive to corporate ideology
If you want to know why nine out of the 10 poorest states are located in the hyper-religious South, look no further
By CJ WERLEMAN

7 absurd things America’s kids are learning thanks to conservatives
With public education gutted, children are being taught that gun control is a gateway to tyranny and worse
By KATIE HALPER

Resolving Nuclear Arms Claims Hinges on Iran's Demand for Documents
By Gareth Porter
"But the record of negotiations between Iran and the IAEA shows Tehran has been ready for the past two years to provide detailed responses to all the charges of an Iranian nuclear weapons work, and that the problem has been the refusal of the IAEA to share with Iran the documentary evidence on which those allegations have been based."

Worst Man for the Job: What the Hell is Obama Thinking?
By Dan Welch
"How oblivious or arrogant do you have to be to spend $5 billion dollars destabilizing a country (the actual total is undoubtedly much higher), have your diplomats caught on tape planning a coup, bring a gang of fascist thugs to power on Russia's doorstep--whose first order of business is to outlaw the Russian language, conduct a purge of opposing parties, threaten the  Russian-speaking population, threaten to restore Ukraine's nuclear status and provoke and threaten Russia non-stop... and have the 'balls' to lecture anyone about interfering?"

Time for Realism and Common Sense on Ukraine
The international community should be pushing for compromise to prevent this fragile and bitterly divided country from breaking apart.
By The Editors, The Nation

IRS "Scandal" Lives On, Still Bogus
By William Boardman

America’s Staggering Hypocrisy
by Robert Parry
"Official Washington is in deep umbrage over Russia’s intervention in Ukraine after a U.S.-backed coup overthrew the democratically elected president."

Hidden in plain sight: Proof GOP doesn’t actually care about the poor
Want to see how Republicans aren't serious about reducing poverty? Look at how they abuse poverty statistics
By BRIAN BEUTLER

When wingnuts don’t believe in religious freedom
The right wants to allow discrimination, but is oddly quiet about seeking exemptions from things like property law
By Matt Bruenig

A Rational Response to Ukraine’s Crisis
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD

A world without Elizabeth Warren: Why attacks on today’s Democrats miss the mark
Adolph Reed tells a depressing story of Democratic decline that reads as if it was written in the doldrums of 2011
By JOAN WALSH

GOP’s pathetic Putin debacle: How their foreign policy politicking backfired
From Sarah Palin to Lindsey Graham, the right's posture on Russia has revealed the movement's biggest flaws
By BRIAN BEUTLER
"Having slowly realized they can’t fault Obama’s response to Russia’s invasion, they’ve retreated instead to attributing the whole thing to one or another of Obama’s perceived, but unrelated weaknesses or failures."

Darrell Issa’s newest IRS scandal revelation: Darrell Issa is bad at investigating scandals
House Oversight Committee chairman has finally exposed something. It's not what he intended
By ALEX PAREENE

5 reasons the already obscene national security budget is bigger than it looks
The $495.6 billion on the books for 2015 doesn't account for the billions we'll be spending on homeland security
By ERIC STONER

Secrets & “spies”: The government’s increasingly dangerous war on whistleblowers
The executive branch is seeking unprecedented power to conceal its secrets and punish those who reveal them
By PETER VAN BUREN
"The Obama administration has just opened a new front in its ongoing war on whistleblowers. It’s taking its case against one man, former Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Air Marshal Robert MacLean, all the way to the Supreme Court."

9 countries that pay a higher minimum wage than the US
So much for the land of opportunity: America pays its poorest workers a fraction of other first world countries
By SARAH WOLFE

Israel’s Choice
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD

Propaganda and nonsense: Even more New York Times hypocrisy
What the New York Times and John Kerry pretend to forget is the real history of America's noxious role in the world
By PATRICK L. SMITH

Race-baiting and misunderstanding the law: Why the senate destroyed Obama nominee Debo Adegbile
Here's how a qualified lawyer picked to work at DOJ just had his fate ruined by hypocrisy -- and worse
By BRIAN BEUTLER

Natural Gas as a Diplomatic Tool
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
"Increasing natural gas exports could serve American foreign-policy interests in Europe, which gets about 30 percent of its gas from Russia."

The Pentagon's Phony Budget War
Or How the U.S. Military Avoided Budget Cuts, Lied About Doing So, Then Asked for Billions More
By Mattea Kramer

Putin or Kerry: Who's Delusional?
By Robert Parry
"You get the point. If someone notes the disturbing U.S. history of military interventions or describes the troubling narrative behind the 'democratic' coup in Ukraine -- spearheaded by neo-Nazi militias who overthrew a duly elected president -- you are dismissed as crazy."

Do corporations have a First Amendment right to track you?
States are considering laws to prevent private companies from continuing to mass-photograph license plates
By DAVID SIROTA
"Working with groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, states are considering laws to prevent private companies from continuing to mass-photograph license plates."

35 Countries Where the U.S. Has Supported Fascists, Drug Lords and Terrorists
35 Countries Where the U.S. Has Supported Fascists, Drug Lords and Terrorists
Here's a handy A to Z guide to U.S.-backed international crime.
By Nicolas J.S. Davies

Global Warming Basics from the U.S. and British Science Academies
By ANDREW C. REVKIN

Democrats Disgrace Themselves on Adegbile Vote
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
"They tried to cover their ludicrous and indefensible opposition by spouting Adegbile's GOP's opponent's line that Adegbile didn't just provide counsel for Abu-Jamal but was an active political advocate for him."

Not funny, but still hard not to laugh: How Can the US Accuse Russia of Violating International Law?
By Dave Lindorff

The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program
By Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald
"The National Security Agency is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligence, as the primary method to locate targets for lethal drone strikes – an unreliable tactic that results in the deaths of innocent or unidentified people."

4 dangerous Bush administration policies that have only gotten worse
While Obama made good on his promise to end torture, other relics of the Bush years remain ingrained in government
By KAREN J. GREENBERG

It's time for a new Church Committee
By Thom Hartmann

From Puritans to Ken Ham: The long history of creationism in America
Modern-day creationist rhetoric has its roots in the Puritan desire to make America into a "City of God"
By JARRET RUMINSKI
"Ham and other like-minded creationists employ the historical tradition of the jeremiad — a type of political sermon or manifesto that laments the state of society and warns of imminent doom unless society changes its ways — in an attempt to expunge evolution from public discourse and return America to what they see as a Christian-centered society."

Business and the Minimum Wage
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
"Scholarly studies and the experience of businesses themselves show that what companies lose when they pay more is often offset by lower turnover and increased productivity."

The right’s sociopathic new scam: Using Americans to harm their own health plans
GOP-aligned groups are now exploiting innocent people who need Obamacare -- by having them campaign for its demise
By Brian Beutler

John Kerry’s policy of surrender: His failures are redefining American exceptionalism
Perhaps the secretary of state knows what he is doing: His many failures actually point to a smarter foreign policy
By Patrick L. Smith
"Each time Kerry encounters the limits of American power, he goes some way to redefining America’s place on the planet in what we can call our post–exceptionalist era."

A Military Budget to Fit the Times
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD

Industry vs. the EPA: The stakes in today’s big Supreme Court hearing
Arguments are being heard Monday in the latest battle over greenhouse gas regulations
By LINDSAY ABRAMS

“Post-racial America” is a dangerous lie: Why this thinking is naive, insidious and deadly
How false optimism on race seduces idealistic black youth into identifying with the very people who’d kill them
By BRITTNEY COOPER

Rethinking Our ‘Rights’ to Dangerous Behaviors
By Mark Bittman
"Freudenberg’s case is that the food industry is but one example of the threat to public health posed by what he calls 'the corporate consumption complex,' an alliance of corporations, banks, marketers and others that essentially promote and benefit from unhealthy lifestyles."

Conservative hacks defend misleading political ads
When it comes to analyzing false Obamacare ads, some right-wing journalists are more "right-wing" than "journalist"
By BRIAN BEUTLER
"One of the built-in benefits of producing anti-Obamacare attack ads is that you can insulate them from scrutiny by attacking anyone who questions the presented facts for insulting a sick person or an ACA victim."

Massive Impediments Standing in the Way of Solving America's Greatest Problems
By Michael Payne

Debunking Charles Krauthammer’s climate lies: A drinking game
The Washington Post pundit got his recent column very, very wrong
By LINDSAY ABRAMS

D.C. Insider: There's a Shadow Govt. Running the Country, and It's Not Up for Re-Election
Power centers in DC and the corporate corridors of Manhattan and Silicon Valley are calling the shots.
By Mike Lofgren

GOP’s staggering chutzpah: Why they’re attacking Medicare cuts now
Republicans voted many times to cut overpayments to Medicare carriers. But -- voilà -- now they suddenly love them
By BRIAN BEUTLER
"Republicans have undertaken a complete reversal, and are attacking Democrats for cutting corporate welfare for insurance companies by too much."

A Shadow US Foreign Policy
By Robert Parry
"A shadow foreign policy apparatus built by Ronald Reagan for the Cold War survives to this day as a slush fund that keeps American neocons well fed and still de-stabilizes target nations, now including Ukraine, creating a crisis that undercuts President Obama, reports Robert Parry."

Elizabeth Kolbert: Earth’s growing extinction crisis is a man-made disaster
Earth's species are dying off at a catastrophic rate, Elizabeth Kolbert tells Salon. And humans are to blame
By LINDSAY ABRAMS

The matter with Kansas now: The Tea Party, the 1 percent and delusional Democrats
Democrats believe demographics alone will defeat the Tea Party. It's a smug fantasy: Economic populism's the answer
By THOMAS FRANK

Presidents Day! USA Honors 12 Commanders-in Chief Prosecutable for Wrongful Deaths in 26 Nations
By Jay Janson

Does Nixon's "Treason" Boost LBJ's Legacy?
By Robert Parry

Is the Universe a Simulation?
By EDWARD FRENKEL
"What kinds of things are mathematical entities and theorems, that they are knowable in this way? Do they exist somewhere, a set of immaterial objects in the enchanted gardens of the Platonic world, waiting to be discovered? Or are they mere creations of the human mind?"

Hey Mitt Romney... Shut the @*#% Up
Posted by newinfluence on The Daily Kos website

The Clear Benefits of a Higher Wage
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD

America after the Constitution: Life in the age of drone wars
Would the government ever conduct drone strikes on U.S. soil? The question looms larger than ever
By PETER VAN BUREN
"Despite the president’s criteria,according to an unnamed administration official quoted by the Associated Press, Obama could make an exception to his policy and authorize the CIA to strike on a one-time basis, no matter what the circumstances. One way or another, it is Obama who decides who to kill and when."

Vietnam whitewash! How the Pentagon is trying to water down history
An initiative to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the war is selectively choosing which facts to tell
By NICK TURSE

GOP’s pitiful, non-existent agenda: Can these cowards win by failing?
Republicans are already giving up on legislating in '14. Here's why they think they can win while offering nothing
By BRIAN BEUTLER

The right’s union-busting disgrace: How it won Tennessee’s high-stakes auto fight
Republicans promising retribution, and a union promising deference, add up to a devastating union defeat
By JOSH EIDELSON

5 billionaires who are making life miserable for ordinary Americans
Nothing like using your immense fortune to stick it to the little guy
By DAVE JOHNSON

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.