The unemployment rate is high around the country -- but not for former Bush officials. A guide to who's cashing in
By Nick Turse Jun 22, 2009
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The shameless fools whose Iraq folly empowered Iran's hard-liners are back, smearing Obama as an appeaser
By Gary Kamiya
June 18, 2009
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The press secretary hits back at the former president's criticism of the Obama administration
By Alex Koppelman
June 18, 2009
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Five disastrous Middle East policies that the president must show he's rejected.
By Gary Kamiya
June 4, 2009
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Unlike all his predecessors since Kennedy, Obama is an engaged city dweller -- just like the majority of Americans.
By Mike Madden
May 26, 2009
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The former president said he wasn't going to speak ill of his successor -- and then did
June 18, 2009
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A new poll finds that Americans no longer favor Republicans on national security issues.
By Vincent Rossmeier
May 20, 2009
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Nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei talks about being wiretapped by the Bush administration, whose "arrogance and ignorance" turned the Middle East into "a giant mess."
By Dieter Bednarz and Erich Follath
May 20, 2009
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Bush's embrace of torture was horrific, but it was hardly the first time Americans have acted like terrorists.
By Noam Chomsky
May 19, 2009
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The Bush administration's Torture 13. They authorized it, they decided how to implement it, and they crafted the legal fig leaf to justify it.
By Marcy Wheeler
May 18, 2009
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Dick Cheney keeps saying "enhanced interrogation" was used to stop imminent attacks, but evidence is mounting that the real reason was to invent evidence linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida.
By Joe Conason
May 14, 2009
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An FBI agent testifies that an al-Qaida prisoner provided useful intelligence until the CIA got rough -- and casts doubt on Bush's statements about the effectiveness of harsh interrogations.
By Mark Benjamin
May 14, 2009
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George W. Bush may have started the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but it's up to the new president to resolve them.
By Gene Lyons
May 14, 2009
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The Obama budget cuts two abstinence-only programs, but the administration's not completely ruling out funding for the idea.
By Vincent Rossmeier
May 12, 2009
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Our undercover conservative answers two different Salon readers who want to know why the GOP seems anti-intellectual and anti-science.
By Glenallen Walken
May 11, 2009
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The president has promised to increase religion's influence on policymaking. He should honor the late Ann Dunham by strengthening the wall between church and state instead.
By Frances Kissling
May 10, 2009
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Some are arguing that if we prosecute Bush officials for torture, or reregulate the financial industry, talented people won't enter government or become bankers. No, they're not kidding.
By Michael Lind
May 5, 2009
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A Senate report shows that during the Bush administration's War on Terror, mental health professionals raised questions about harsh interrogations -- but helped design interrogation programs anyway.
By Sheri Fink
May 5, 2009
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If you don't love George W. Bush, it's probably because you're an awful person.
By Alex Koppelman
May 1, 2009
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We need to investigate the Bush years, even if it means tearing the country -- and ourselves -- apart.
By Gary Kamiya
May 1, 2009
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His first 100 days has been a sprint. But the success of his second 100 days -- and his presidency -- hinges on a series of tough decisions.
By Robert Reich
April 27, 2009
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From his undisclosed location, our undercover Wingnut explains why the right thinks George Bush has been unfairly criticized and will be vindicated by history.
By Glenallen Walken
April 27, 2009
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If Dick Cheney believes he can prove that torture saved us from terrorist attacks, why does he oppose a full investigation?
By Joe Conason
April 27, 2009
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Those teenage high-seas renegades are not about to team up with terrorists, so why is the U.S. military devoting so much attention to them?
By John Feffer
April 24, 2009
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Judge Jay S. Bybee provided the legal framework for torture to the Bush administration. If he had even a particle of decency, he'd resign.
By Gene Lyons
April 23, 2009
Bush officials: Where are they now?
Night of the living neocons
Gibbs responds to Bush: "we won"
Obama's Cairo mission: Don't be Bush
This president does not chop brush
"The world has ignored our warnings"
Our unending war of terror
The 13 people who made torture possible
We tortured to justify war
Soufan: CIA torture actually hindered our intelligence gathering
They're Obama's wars now
Dear Wingnut, why are Republicans afraid of science?
It's time for Obama to listen to his mama
The "best and the brightest"? Spare me
The reluctant enablers of torture
America's necessary dark night of the soul
How Obama can succeed in the next 100 days and beyond
Why can't conservatives admit George Bush broke America?
Torture and truthiness
Our misguided fight against Somali pirates
The shaming of America
Glenn Greenwald
GigaOM Network
Joan Walsh