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 I Won’t Serve Israel
By MORIEL ROTHMAN-ZECHER
"Rarely do more than a few hundred Jewish Israelis publicly refuse to serve each year in protest against Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories. The shrill condemnation of refusers is thus an indication of the establishment’s panic."

It’s not just Fox News: How liberal apologists torpedoed change, helped make the Democrats safe for Wall Street
Center-left pundits have carried water for the president for six years. Their predictable excuses all ring hollow
By Thomas Frank

Don’t Look to States for New Ideas
By AARON CHATTERJI
"The problem is, just when we need their innovative energies, the states are looking less and less likely to be fountainheads of new federal policy over the next generation."

Angry right’s secret playbook: How it uses a good story to peddle an agenda America hates
I'm a former right-winger and I know the playbook. Here's why liberals have to learn to talk big — and play dirty
By EDWIN LYNGAR
"In an ideological battle, the tendency toward inclusion and reflection can become a handicap. As a side effect of all this soul-searching, the left becomes ineffectual at fighting even the worst excesses on the right."

Why is the financial industry so afraid of this man?
Joseph Stiglitz has won a Nobel Prize for economics. So why has he apparently been blacklisted by regulators?
By SEAN MCELWEE AND LENORE PALLADINO
"The fight to keep Stiglitz off the panel is indicative of a much deeper problem — how the financial industry manipulates the regulatory system."

“There are indeed consequences”: The case against Gen. David Petraeus
The Espionage Act is a bad law -- but here's why the former CIA director needs to be prosecuted for violating it
By JESSELYN RADACK
"But the fact that the target of the recommended leak charges is Petraeus bears particular significance for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that the three most recent directors of the CIA — Leon E. Panetta, Petraeus and John O. Brennan — have all leaked classified information casually, regularly and with impunity."

“Has America gone crazy?”
It's a question that dogs me wherever I travel abroad -- and one for which I increasingly have no easy answer
By ANN JONES, TOMDISPATCH.COM

Mitt’s “human being” experiment: Romney’s highly calculated strategy to show authenticity
On the third go-round, Mitt Romney wants America to see his true, natural self. This should be good ...
By Jim Newell

Civil Rights Leader Calls Israeli Apartheid of Palestinians More Violent than South African Treatment of Blacks
By Ann Wright
"In the face of overwhelming violence, Dr. Boesak commented that it is human nature that a violent response by some is inevitable, but that it is incredible that the response of the majority of Palestinians is non-violent."

Hollywood’s political deafness: What Cosby, “Selma” & Hebdo reveal about white liberal consciousness
The causes celebrities feel comfortable backing -- and those they do not -- speaks volumes. And it's not pretty
By Brittney Cooper
"Attacks on largely white victims received a huge and committed show of solidarity, while the Black Lives Matter Movement that has consumed our news cycle for the last four months was apparently not even worthy of mention."

France arrests comedian for Facebook comments, showing the sham of the West's "Free Speech" Celebration
By Glenn Greenwald
"Since that glorious 'free speech' march, France has reportedly opened 54 criminal cases for "condoning terrorism." AP reported this morning that 'France ordered prosecutors around the country to crack down on hate speech, anti-Semitism and glorifying terrorism.'

Why Drugs Cost So Much
By PETER B. BACH
"Companies are taking advantage of a mix of laws that force insurers to include essentially all expensive drugs in their policies, and a philosophy that demands that every new health care product be available to everyone, no matter how little it helps or how much it costs. Anything else and we’re talking death panels."

Wrong Responses to Charlie Hebdo
By THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD
"Regrettably, some politicians are proposing the kind of Internet censorship and surveillance that would do little to protect their citizens but do a lot to infringe on civil liberties."

Now they’re sliming Elizabeth Warren: Fox News tactics and the surprising water carriers for the 1 percent
It's not only the right telling lies about Warren and Social Security. The icky new attackers might surprise you
By Paul Rosenberg

Your Free Speech, and Mine
By Timothy Egan
"Sex is at the root of most free speech fights. Whatever it is that incites lust, it also incites the censorious. Religion is not far behind. You could argue that the two are twined, and it would be hard to rebut."

Obama ditches the centrists: How a break from neoliberalism boosted his popularity
The president's more popular than he's been in nearly two years. Here's why that should have neoliberals scared
By Elias Isquith

The Other Pipeline You Should Worry About
It’s Not Just Keystone XL, It’s Also Line 61
By DAN KAUFMAN
"WHILE the ire of environmental activists remains fixed on the Keystone XL pipeline, a potentially greater threat looms in the proposed expansion of Line 61, a pipeline running the length of Wisconsin carrying tar sands crude."

Why religion unleashes humanity’s most violent impulses
Terrorism can't be blamed on religion alone, but murder and brutality are elemental to almost every major faith
By Valerie Tarico, AlterNet
"With the possible exception of Buddhism, the world’s most powerful religions give wildly contradictory messages about violence."

Meet the Democrat trying to torpedo diplomacy with Iran
As the Obama administration tries to secure a nuclear deal, its biggest adversary isn't a Republican
By LUKE BRINKER
[Ed note: only need to see how much money/support/pressure Mendendez gets from AIPAC to understand why he would take this position against the White house.]

“Ignorance is reigning supreme”: Rula Jebreal on Charlie Hebdo, Bill Maher & our inane foreign policy
Foreign policy analyst tells Salon why only cooperating with Muslim communities will thwart extremism and hate
By ELIAS ISQUITH

America Is Open for Business in Iraq
(Psst... Wanna Buy an M1 Tank?)
By Peter Van Buren
"At the moment, Iraq War 3.0 simply drones on, part bombing campaign, part mission to train the collapsed army the U.S. military created for Iraq War 2.0, all amid a miasma of incoherent mainstream media coverage."  

5 times the right flipped out over blasphemous depictions of Christianity
Conservatives love to crow about free speech, but their tune changes when their religion is the butt of the jokes
By AMANDA MARCOTTE, ALTERNET

Neocons: The "Anti-Realists"
By Robert Parry
"However, in modern times, foreign policy "realism" slid into an association with a cold calculation of power, no longer a defense of the Republic and broader national interests but of narrow, well-connected economic interests."

How well can information be stored from the beginning to the end of time?
By Lisa Zyga
"The physicists' main result is that, the faster the universe expands, the less well the information can be preserved."

Social Security Disability Insurance: A Primer for Rand Paul (and Everyone Else)
By Rebecca Vallas, TalkPoverty.org

This is how elites protect each other: Today’s worst in Beltway hypocrisy
The notion of "equal justice under the law" just got trampled upon in Washington. Inside a stunning double standard
By MARCY WHEELER
"It seems Feinstein doesn’t like when punishment she — and Petraeus himself – enthusiastically endorse gets applied to her close associates."

Here’s how we defeat the vulgarians: Bill Maher, wrong-headed neocons, and the real answer to “radical Islam”
We need an honest response to Charlie Hebdo. Start by remembering how 9/11 felt before Bush hijacked it for war
By PATRICK L. SMITH
"The exceptional aspect of the week since Charlie Hebdo and a Parisian market were invaded by radical Islamists is how intelligently so many of us have responded."

It’s time for a revolution: Bankrupt policies, historic losses call for new generation of leaders
It's always "Groundhog Day" for Democratic leaders who can't adjust, can't organize and can't win. Let's dump them
By BILL CURRY
"I’ve argued that progressive political movements died at the hands of their leaders; that their death is what caused the political collapse we errantly term “partisan gridlock”; that progressives need a timeout from electoral politics; and that both Democrats and progressives are best served by a return to a more arms-length relationship."

Are All Terrorists Muslims? It’s Not Even Close
By Dean Obeidallah
"Overwhelmingly, those who have committed terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe aren’t Muslims. Let’s give that a moment to sink in."

Perpetuating Guantánamo’s Travesty
By THE MYT EDITORIAL BOARD
"It is long past time for American officials to do the right thing: prosecute suspected terrorists in American courtrooms and shut down a wartime prison that has deservedly brought the United States international scorn. Besides moral and strategic considerations, shutting Guantánamo would make fiscal sense. Currently, the United States spends $3 million a year to hold each detainee."

Bill Maher is right about religion: The Orwellian ridiculousness of Jesus, and the truth about moral progress
"Most religions were pulled into the modern Enlightenment with their fingernails dug into the past"
By MICHAEL SHERMER

Is a Climate Disaster Inevitable?
By ADAM FRANK
"The defining feature of a technological civilization is the capacity to intensively “harvest” energy. But the basic physics of energy, heat and work known as thermodynamics tell us that waste, or what we physicists call entropy, must be generated and dumped back into the environment in the process."

Mitt Romney Has a Huge New Conflict-of-Interest Problem
By David Corn
"But there's another matter that will be be added to the pile of financial controversies for Romney to face: Solamere Capital, the $700 million private equity firm co-founded by his son Taggart that Romney has helped run since March 2013. Who has Romney been investing with, and what has he been investing in?"

"Justice" Hidden Behind a Screen
By Ray McGovern
"But the real subtext of the Sterling case is how the politicization of the CIA's analytical division over the past several decades has contributed to multiple intelligence failures, especially efforts to 'prove' that targeted regimes in the Middle East were amassing weapons of mass destruction."

"Circus of Hypocrisy": Jeremy Scahill on How World Leaders at Paris March Oppose Press Freedom
By Democracy Now

The destruction of creationism: How the search for the beginning of time sparked a scientific revolution
When scholars used the Bible to pinpoint the moment of creation, they actually paved the way for a radical change
By Martin J.S. Rudwick

Let’s abolish West Point: Military academies serve no one, squander millions of tax dollars
Our military academies aren't filled with best and brightest. They are a boondoggle, on your dime, and serve no one
By Bruce Fleming

All Forms of Life Are Sacred
By Chris Hedges
"The battle for the rights of animals is not only about animals. It is about us. Once we desanctify animals we desanctify all life. And once life is desanctified the industrial machines of death, and the drone-like bureaucrats, sadists and profiteers who operate them, carry out human carnage as easily as animal carnage."

Stop Subsidizing Big Pharma
By LLEWELLYN HINKES-JONES

The Path to Closing Guantánamo
By CLIFF SLOAN
"The government must continue and accelerate the transfers of those approved for release. Administrative review of those not approved for transfer must be expedited. The absolute and irrational ban on transfers to the United States for any purpose, including detention and prosecution, must be changed as the population is reduced to a small core of detainees who cannot safely be transferred overseas."

GOP’s coming horror show: Why new Congress may be even worse than you think
Get the popcorn ready. GOP House on GOP Senate action -- and why the establishment is really so worried
By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON

Robert Reich: The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a disaster in the making
The former secretary of labor on the impending trade deal -- and why it will only further empower Wall Street
By ROBERT REICH, ROBERTREICH.ORG

Bernie Sanders' Brutal Letter On Obama's Trade Pact Foreshadows 2016 Democratic Clash
By Zach Carter
"Like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), another progressive favorite often mentioned as a potential 2016 contender, Sanders has been critical of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a major U.S. pact being negotiated with 11 Pacific nations, which Sanders says will exacerbate income inequality and erode important regulations."

Remembering the Horrible Things America Did to Cuba Over the Past 6 Decades
There is a long list of U.S. state-sponsored and CIA-led terrorist acts against Cuba.
By Emma Levine-Nevel / AlterNet
"To understand the Cuban five’s mission means looking at the history of U.S. government and CIA plots to destroy, subvert and overthrow the revolutionary Cuban government."

The CIA & NYPD: Perilous Insubordination in Our Democracy
By Charles Pierce, Esquire
"For the past two weeks, on two different fronts, we have been confronted with the unpleasant fact that there are people working in the institutions of our self-government who believe themselves not only beyond the control and sanctions of the civil power, but also beyond the control and sanctions of their direct superiors."

“I know firsthand it didn’t work”: Former FBI special agent dismantles torturers’ lies
Star agent who interrogated the infamous Abu Zubaydah tells Salon why Cheney's torture regime was such a failure
By ELIAS ISQUITH
"According to former FBI Special Agent Ali Soufan, however, almost none of what the public has come to believe about the torture program is true."

How I busted Steve Scalise: Inside a GOP political scandal — and its ongoing coverup
After I exposed him speaking at a white nationalist conference, his coverup began. Here's the story's next chapter
By LAMAR WHITE JR. (WITH ZACK KOPPLIN)
"A week ago, I broke the story about Steve Scalise, the current House majority whip, attending a conference hosted by the European-American Unity and Rights Organization (or EURO), a white nationalist organization led by David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan."

“Unburnable”: To avoid catastrophic climate change, most of the world’s fossil fuels must remain in the ground
A new study is one of the strongest arguments yet against the Keystone XL pipeline
By LINDSAY ABRAMS

A Pipeline and a Pie-In-The-Sky
By Timothy Egan
"The Koch brothers Congress, purchased with the help of about $100 million from the political network of the billionaire energy producers, got down to its first order of business this week: trying to hold off the future."

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.