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RoboCop in Iraq

In the next five years, according to DefenseLink, the Pentagon plans to spend $2 billion on robots, breaking the monopoly of human soldiers in an army

Allen McDuffee

Taxes vs. Charity

Adam Doster

Viewpoint

Catch-22 in the 21st Century

Government censors are making like Joseph Heller's character Yossarian and blacking out random information in letters from Guantánamo that has nothing to do with "national security"

H. Candace Gorman

January Boom

Jarrett

Clorox the Green Giant?

Jarrett

Huckabee’s Connections

Jarrett

Feature

The Fog of War Crimes

Who's to blame when 'just following orders' means murder?

Frida Berrigan

More “Crypto-Evangelical Code” From Huckabee

Jarrett

I Believe In Jesus, Except When I’m Campaigning In New Hampshire

Jarrett

Feature

Resister in Exile

Haifa Zangana survived Saddam, and urges Iraqi women to survive the occupation

Sanhita SinhaRoy

Viewpoint

Whats Next For FISA?

Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium

Feature

Empire’s Architecture

Should it ever be finished, the U.S. embassy in Iraq will stand as a colossal monument to the Bush administration's failures

Allen McDuffee

The Legal Contortionists

Jarrett

Dispatch

Dropping Out of Electoral College

Maryland is the first state to pass the National Popular Vote (NPV) into law, and several others are right behind

Martha Biondi

Mike Huckabee: Christian Fascism Finds Its Man

Jarrett

Feature

Inside the Beast:

Lifelines, Lifetimes and Timelines: Hoisting Ourselves up the Fossil Chain

The Yes Men

Viewpoint

McGovern Still on the Antiwar Path

The retired senator and former ambassador to the United Nations is stumping for a book he co-wrote with foreign policy analyst William R. Polk called Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now while buttonholing dozens of members of Congress and urging our immediate withdrawal from Iraq

Laura S. Washington

Dispatch

Bike-Sharing Is Caring

Bike-sharing programs that provide cheap access to inner-city bicycles are popular all over Europe, and Beijing, and even American cities are catching on

Adam Doster