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Glenn Greenwald "on the claimed 'war exception' to the Constitution", and Dennis Blair's testimony on targeting Americ...

In starkest terms, Gaithner is part of the problem -- the enabling network that created the crisis, including the artificially low interest...

What does Obama want? Well, here is another indication that he definitely wants to look forward and not backward, particularly when it come...

The SOTU is not the place to announce personnel changes. And often it is not the place to play gotcha politics either. But given the univ...

We're all pretty good at seeing where Obama has gone wrong, if he ever intended to go right. The only question, as to his election, i...

It's smoke and mirrors. The big picture, the big, obscene expenditures on war, get not just short, but NO shrift. We cannot talk about t...

With Speaker Pelosi being caught up in dissembling about her involvement with Bush administration torture policies, the republicans have le...

Jonathan Turley (who I like, and not just because he teaches at one of my alma maters), on Rachael Maddow, critical of Obama for standing in...

SOMETIMES THE PROBLEM IS CONGRESS . . . and the president needs to lead, e.g. on Israel/Palestine (though it’s a long shot that Obama will i...

In the heady early and self-conscious accommodation-seeking days of the Obama presidency, we seem to be dancing around the edges of the sign...