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  • The sick fight over healthcare

    A too-cautious Obama has let the right define the debate -- and now meaningful reform hangs in the balance
  • The poison of celebrity

    While the ersatz mourning for Michael Jackson was merely annoying, the fame of lightweight Sarah Palin is dangerous
  • Californians are sinking themselves

    An inflexible right wing is allowing the Golden State to drown in debt. But it's not alone
  • The strange nakedness of Mark Sanford

    He was an emotional wreck at his press conference, but also something philandering politicians rarely are: Human
  • Night of the living neocons

    The shameless fools whose Iraq folly empowered Iran's hard-liners are back, smearing Obama as an appeaser
  • The Fiat-ization of the American male

    Can a nation of dudes whose sexual self-image was built on macho Jeeps survive the rise of the Little Mouse?
  • Obama changes the Middle East

    This American president's empathy with the Arab/Muslim world could be a crucial first step in brokering peace.
  • Obama's Cairo mission: Don't be Bush

    Five disastrous Middle East policies that the president must show he's rejected.
  • In the shadow of Cheney

    Obama could spring America from the dank culture of fear spread by Cheney and Bush. So what's holding him back?
  • Obama's coming collision with Netanyahu

    American politicians hate to confront Israel. But here's why Obama will.
  • America's necessary dark night of the soul

    We need to investigate the Bush years, even if it means tearing the country -- and ourselves -- apart.
  • Obama and race: Silence is golden

    The president has dramatically improved race relations -- by not talking about race.
  • Torture works sometimes -- but it's always wrong

    The "ticking bomb" scenario only happens on TV. Those, like Dick Cheney, who cite it are leading society down a fatal slippery slope of abuse.
  • How I learned to love (and hate) "American Idol"

    For seven years I ignored the world's biggest pop culture spectacle. But thanks to my daughter -- and the stunningly original Adam Lambert -- I finally caved.
  • Leonard Cohen's perfect offering

    The great songwriter is old now. But as closing time approaches, his poetic fire burns brighter than ever.
  • Ward Churchill's win is scholarship's loss

    The ethnic studies professor should not have been fired for speaking out about 9/11. The problem remains his slanted work on Native American history.
  • They're coming to take our guns away

    Cop killer Richard Poplawski is an extremist. But amid the deafening din of the right wing's anti-government rhetoric, how extreme is he?
  • Jesus is just alright with him

    To the author of "Jesus Interrupted," the man from Galilee was a radical Jewish prophet, not God. But in an interview, Bart Ehrman says history doesn't have to undermine Christian faith.
  • Oakland mourns

    A long blue line of police officers, backed by a grieving city, gather to say goodbye to four cops who died doing their jobs.
  • Uprising on Main Street

    Today's populist rage could regenerate America -- if Obama handles it right.
  • Obama's Middle East moment of truth

    His diplomatic moves are a good start. But does he have the will to challenge Israel?
  • John Yoo is sorry for nothing

    Sneering with contempt, the unrepentant Bush attorney has challenged "Obama's antiwar base" to read his infamous memos closely. So I did.
  • Debating the Iraq exit

    The right claims Obama's plan vindicates Bush. The left fears Obama will continue Bush's war. Both are wrong.
  • Who is the right calling "loser"?

    The GOP is whipping up resentment of Obama and "loafers" who defaulted on home loans. But it crashed the biggest welfare Cadillac in history.
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