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Israel Declares War on NGOs and Human Rights Groups
Will Our 'Green Jobs' Dollars Help a Ritzy Car Company Open a Toxic Manufacturing Plant?
'Neocon-ing' Obama
If We Don't Fix the Senate's Miserable Health Bill, the Repercussions Could Last for Decades
Top 10 Ethics Scandals of 2009
Obama's Mortgage Program: FAIL?
Hordes of Angry Activists and a $27 Billion Court Case Is Making Oil Giant Chevron Pretty Nervous
Will Dur$t's Xma$ Gift Wi$h Li$t
Greyhound Lines Inc. Accused of Racial Profiling
The Great Afghan Gem Heist: How the War Led to the Pillaging of Afghanistan's Precious Stones
Obama's Af-Pak War is Not Just Deadly and Counterproductive: It's Illegal
The Torture of Two Innocent Men Who Just Left Guantanamo
Moyers, Moore and Maddow are the Most Influential Progressives
Is Obama's Problem That He Just Doesn't Want to Deal with Conflict?
We Can't Let Politics Keep Trumping Science on Drug Policy
Touchdowns and Lockdowns: Transcending Racial Politics in Prison Through Sports
The Media Industry's Whirlwind Transformation in the 2000's: Good-News, Bad-News
This Is Your Brain on Kafka
The Ten Worst Nightmares Bush Inflicted on America
Mexico Brags About Killing a Drug Kingpin, But It Won't Be Long Before Someone Takes His Place
They're Building Nuclear Missile Parts in Woodstock? You Can't Escape America's War Economy
Obama and Congress: At the Crossroads of Immigration Reform
How Citigroup's Payback Plan Will Ultimately Screw Taxpayers
Obama's Senate Health Care Bill: A "Uniquely American" Idiocy (and 35 Ways It Can Be Fixed)
Abortion in the Senate Health-Care Bill: What the Nelson Compromise Will Cost Women
Guantanamo Was "Hell On Earth": Former Gitmo Detainee
Osama bin Laden Nearly Killed Bill Clinton?
Glenn Beck's Year of Wild Conspiracies, Paranoid Delusions and Cynical Lies
The "Slow Money" Movement May Revolutionize the Way You Think About Food
Hey, Dr. Dean, President Obama: It's Time to Get Real with Progressives
10 Greediest People of 2009
How Wall Street Bought Barney Frank
For Obama, No Opportunity Is Too Big to Blow
A Rogue Sheriff in One Arizona County Is a National Problem
Afghan National Army: Afghan Police Are Doing More Harm Than Good
Copenhagen: Historic Failure That Will Live in Infamy
Women Soldiers Forced to Resort to Back-Alley Abortions: Why Are Their Reproductive Rights Denied?
Howard Dean Is a Genuine Hero: Taking on Corporate 'Centrists' Like Lieberman
Health Care Reform Is Not Reform If It Denies Women Coverage
Quitting Meat Is at the Heart of 2009's Health Zeitgeist, And Author Kathy Freston Is Leading the Debate