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The two Senators spent the year emphatically insisting that the CIA's interrogators comply with the Army Field Manual. With Democrats in control, they're not so emphatic any longer
Glenn Greenwald [ 2008-12-04 ]
Our delusional president laments the "intelligence failure" that identified nonexistent WMD in Iraq and admits he was "unprepared" for war.
Joan Walsh [ 2008-12-03 ]
A large, and rapidly growing, percentage of high elected officials are part of politically powerful families. What accounts for this anti-democratic dynamic?
Glenn Greenwald [ 2008-12-03 ]
A college student explains how she landed her "sugar daddy."
Tracy Clark-Flory [ 2008-12-04 ]
It's premature to criticize Obama for his establishment-soothing appointments. But it's just as premature to heap praise on him for those appointments.
Glenn Greenwald [ 2008-12-02 ]
The White House censored her subversive Christmas tree ornament -- only to spread its anti-Bush cheer.
By Jeremy Olshan [ 2008-12-03 ]
A style writer shops for a suitable baby mama to bear her blue-blood spawn.
Amy Benfer [ 2008-12-02 ]
You want that discounted flat-screen TV. You want to help boost the economy. But I've got news for you.
Andrew Leonard [ 2008-12-02 ]
Help her, Obi-Wan! Carrie Fisher's memoir of her life as a "Star Wars" icon and poster child for rehab and mental illness will likely make you laugh -- and cry.
By Rebecca Traister [ 2008-12-03 ]
The Bush administration's impending "provider conscience" law even extends to artificial insemination.
Tracy Clark-Flory [ 2008-12-03 ]
One chum is working on a cure for cancer; one has started his own political party. All this overachieving is giving me status anxiety.
By Cary Tennis [ 2008-12-04 ]
A Vanity Fair profile talks about the comedian's chin scar, loss of virginity -- and how an awkward puritan became TV's most hilarious bombshell.
Sarah Hepola [ 2008-12-02 ]
Shockingly low gas prices can't save G.M., and its own restructuring plan doesn't boost confidence. The next bailout should be a government-administered bankruptcy.
Andrew Leonard [ 2008-12-03 ]
The former Reagan speechwriter and WSJ opinion columnist can't see the recession. Is she even looking?
Andrew Leonard [ 2008-12-02 ]
A new disclosure to be filed with the FEC will show additional money -- "less than $30,000" -- spent on clothes for Sarah Palin.
Alex Koppelman [ 2008-12-04 ]
Midwesterners usually go south to misbehave, not to the handicapped stall in a Minneapolis men's room at halftime.
By Garrison Keillor [ 2008-12-03 ]
Things were getting rocky before this news, and now he says maybe I should go.
By Cary Tennis [ 2008-12-02 ]
The Fox News host picks a fight with Hollywood at a private screening of "Frost/Nixon" in D.C.
Mike Madden [ 2008-12-02 ]
The billion-dollar scrapbooking industry may be cheesy, but as author Jessica Helfand explains, there's rich history in that glitter and glue.
By Joy Press [ 2008-12-04 ]
Mike Duncan says proved "the ideology of the country [hasn't] shifted to the left," but the election wasn't really that significant.
Alex Koppelman [ 2008-12-04 ]
Taking charge of the State Department will give Clinton more power than hanging around the Senate -- even if she does have a history with her new boss.
By Mike Madden [ 2008-12-02 ]
What is behind the Pentagon's new plan to deploy 20,000 U.S. Army troops inside the U.S., and what are the risks and dangers?
Glenn Greenwald [ 2008-12-02 ]
Some observers say Tuesday's results are a backlash, or at least an end to Obamamentum, but they're reading too much into the race.
Alex Koppelman [ 2008-12-03 ]
The terrorists who attacked Mumbai struck the heart of city life.
By Gary Kamiya [ 2008-12-02 ]
Roosevelt came into office with a brain trust ready to enact change. Are Obama's brainiacs up to that task -- or are they too beholden to the Clintonian, neoliberal past?
By Steve Fraser [ 2008-12-03 ]
