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“I Don’t Want to Be Famous. I Want Our People to Get Enough Rice”: The Messenger Band Interview
“My name is Saem, and the name of my group is the Messenger Band,” the singer more formally known as Vun Em explains. We are in Phnom Penh's Meta-House, …
Trouble in Europe
One of the first notable acts of the new European Commission presided over by José Manuel Barroso was - on March 2 - to shatter the moratorium on authorization …
What Makes America Strong?
An unmanned drone hovers over the house of a suspected leader of a terrorist cell, the craft's camera and missiles controlled by a soldier thousands of miles away on …
House Afghanistan Debate: What Kucinich Accomplished
Yesterday, at long last, there was a vigorous debate about the war in Afghanistan on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. The legislative vehicle was a …
Greenspan’s Nightmare Is Much of the World’s Dream
Alan Greenspan had a dream, or rather a nightmare. Greenspan seems to have woken up in a cold sweat one morning in fear that the period of “disinflationary pressures” …
Ruth Marcus | Chief Whiner
To listen to John Roberts, you'd think that mobs of pitchfork-waving Democrats had accosted a handful of trembling justices and demanded that they reverse themselves on the spot — …
How the Democrats Can Reclaim the Youth Vote
If the Democrats don't get the youth vote, they're toast. That happened in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts, where young Obama voters stayed home in droves. It's an ugly, …
In Praise of the Gitmo Bar
A number of prominent conservative lawyers have now come to the defense of the Department of Justice attorneys who previously represented detainees or advocated for detainee rights. While their …
Five Republicans Back Kucinich, but Antiwar Vote Loses
A resolution introduced in the House Wednesday, aimed at bringing a swift end to the war in Afghanistan, was overwhelmingly defeated following a passionate, three-hour debate on war policy. …
War in a Box
The event on the House floor Wednesday afternoon was monumental - the first major Congressional debate about US military operations in Afghanistan since lawmakers authorized the invasion of that …