Archives for Best Web OpEds
April 2010
Friday, April 30:
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Stop Robert Rubin Before He Kills Again
Sheila Samples: Eugene Robinson - Courtesy of Sue Lowden: A chicken in every doctor's pot
Sheila Samples: Super Surprising Facts About 'Our Enemy' Iran Remind Us That We Don't Know Squat
Sheila Samples: Why Law Enforcement Officials Should Hate Arizona's Racist New Law
Dennis Kaiser: Israel's tyranny of the majority is dangerous - Haaretz - Israel News
Thursday, April 29:
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: The Euro Trap
Sheila Samples: Dual Loyalty Revisited
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Caught On Video: Moments Before Afghan Massacre, A Family Celebrates
Wednesday, April 28:
Sheila Dean: American citizenship, Arizona & SB 1070 by Sheila Dean
Sheila Samples: Maureen Dowd - Olive Oil and Snake Oil (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Beck, Palin adopt tactics of Jackson, Sharpton
Sheila Samples: Three Points of View: The United States, Pakistan and India
Richmond Shreve: Planet Doom | The New Republic
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Deficit Commisson's Most Realistic Goal: Scaring The Hell Out Of Americans
Margaret Bassett: Economic Experts Counter Right-Wing Bias Of Deficit Debate
Tuesday, April 27:
Sheila Samples: James Howard Kunstler: A Still Moment
Sheila Samples: GOP Senator Engages in 'Cynical Political Ploy' to Derail Immigration and Climate Bills
Sheila Samples: A Better Chance at Justice for Abuse Victims
Sheila Samples: Can the U.S. Beat Israel at their Game?
Monday, April 26:
Sheila Samples: What If the Tea Party Were Black? (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Dick Cheney Returns: Will He Help the GOP?
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - The right court fight
Sheila Samples: Will Goldman Sachs prove greed is God?
Joan Brunwasser: President Obama: Bring Back Black
Dennis Kaiser: Proof of Insider Involvement on 9/11
Joan Brunwasser: What to Do About the Banks
Mac McKinney: GERALD CELENTE: STOP STEREOTYPING TEA-BAGGERS & THINK FOR YOURSELF (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Berating the Rating Agencies (1 comments)
Sunday, April 25:
Ann Garrison: Call press and human rights defenders if Frank Habineza is arrested
Sheila Samples: US-NATO Occupation Forces in Afghanistan: Pullout or Chased Out?
Sheila Samples: Robert Reich: My (unheeded) Warning on John Roberts
Sheila Samples: Frank Rich: Fight On, Goldman Sachs! (6 comments)
GLloyd Rowsey: Sisterhood Between the Bolivarian Republic and Cuba (33 comments)
Saturday, April 24:
Sheila Samples: Where Are the Tea Party Protests About Wall Street?
Don Smith: Global warming evidence all around us
Sheila Samples: Dana Milbank - Florida's Charlie Crist could use a hug
Margaret Bassett: Poor Pricing Power Poses Problems for the U.S.
Ann Garrison: No Rwandan troops in the D.R.C.? No U.S. troops in Iraq?
Sheila Samples: Tom Shales previews HBO's 'You Don't Know Jack'
B. Ross Ashley: Afghanistan: end of a debacle - The Globe and Mail
B. Ross Ashley: The government seems to be inviting suspicion - The Globe and Mail
Sheila Samples: David Corn: National Day of Prayer: Franklin Graham Deserved to Be Booted
Friday, April 23:
Margaret Bassett: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union - Facebook
Margaret Bassett: Can a Gay Judge Be Fair to Straight Folks?
M. Wizard: Is It Time for Law Abiding American Citizens to Stop Paying Their Taxes and Start a New Government? (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Afghan Massacre Survivor To Obama: You Be The Judge (VIDEO) (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Eugene Robinson - How Obama found his mojo on Wall Street
Sheila Samples: Behind the Mask of the Tea Party Movement (2 comments)
Richmond Shreve: Daniel Henninger: Democrats at the Edge of the Cliff - WSJ.com (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Don't Cry for Wall Street
Thursday, April 22:
Joan Brunwasser: Andy Ostroy: This Jew Says 'Sorry Sarah, America is Not a "Christian" Nation' (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Jeremy Scahill: Firm Run by Ex-Israeli Special Forces Soldier Wants US Security Contracts in Jerusalem, Iraq, Afghanist
Sheila Samples: Jim Wallis: Arizona's Immigration Bill is a Social and Racial Sin (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Wikileaks Video Revisited: What Needs To Happen Now
Sheila Samples: Anthrax letters: Was Bruce Ivins hounded to death?
Sheila Samples: The American Debate: GOP lacks the luster to overcome Obama
Richmond Shreve: Loose Tea | The Nation
Richmond Shreve: Breaking the Banks | The Nation
Sheila Samples: Huge Protests Planned for Showdown on Wall St. and at Banks Across the U.S. to Demand Financial Reform
Kevin Gosztola: Rise of the Corporate Court: How the Supreme Court is Putting Businesses First (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - Obama pulls out his boxing gloves in Calif.
Sheila Samples: The tea party's exaggerated importance (8 comments)
Wednesday, April 21:
Margaret Bassett: Immigration Helped Make America Great
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Florida Senate Race: Charlie Crist Needs a Hug
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin -- Rubin: I Actually Supported Regulating Derivatives
Sheila Samples: Clarence Thomas's Wife, "Ginni" (Admirer of Right Wing Hate Media), is Launching a Hard Right Political Organization (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: William Gheen has gay old time at Lindsey Graham's expense
Sheila Samples: David Drummond - Our challenge: Keeping the Internet open
Sheila Samples: Stephen M. Walt: The Inflated Threat from Iran
Tuesday, April 20:
Sheila Samples: Leonard Pitts Jr.: Eulogy for John McCain's lost integrity (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Commentary: Will Tea Party become a movement or the lunatic fringe?
Sheila Samples: William Saletan: Sarah Palin's ignorant imperialism
Joan Brunwasser: Why America's Telecom System Stinks
Sheila Samples: Henry Allen - The death of the American Century (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Wall Street Reform: If Obama Can't Win This Message War . . .
Sheila Samples: Robert Reich: Mitch McConnell Gets it Wrong
Josh Mitteldorf: Wasn't one of those guys supposed to be a terrorist? (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Baghdad Politics and the U.S.-Iranian Balance (1 comments)
Diane V. McLoughlin: Whistle-Blowers Virgins Volcanoes...Obamas Democracy (1 comments)
Diane V. McLoughlin: Haaretz Tries To Save Israel's Soul (1 comments)
Monday, April 19:
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - The Tea Party: Populism of the privileged
Sheila Samples: Another Ordinary Day of Fear-Mongering About Iran's "Nukes"
Sheila Samples: Calling Out McConnell...
Richmond Shreve: The Populism Of The Privileged | The New Republic (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Looters in Loafers
Sunday, April 18:
Sheila Samples: Matthew Rothschild: Corporations Aren't Persons
Sheila Samples: Nicholas D. Kristof: A Church Mary Can Love
Sheila Samples: Uri Avnery: A Birthday Present
Andreas Umland: Yanukovych's revenge: Why and how Ukraine's democracy is declining (7 comments)
Margaret Bassett: The White House Seeks out Kagan Defenders - Glenn Greenwald
Sheila Samples: Frank Rich: Welcome to Confederate History Month - NYTimes.com (1 comments)
Saturday, April 17:
Sheila Samples: A Letter of Reconciliation and Responsibility to the Iraqi People
Rob Kall: Glen Greenwald: Is NSA whistleblower prosecution Worst Step Obama Admin Has Taken Yet? (4 comments)
Ernest Canning: Citizens United: A Case Which Will Live in Infamy
Sheila Samples: The Tea Party Crowd Needs to Wake Up to Who the Real Villains Are
Sheila Samples: WOW -- Is This Why The SEC Announced The Goldman Fraud Charges Friday Morning?
Sheila Samples: Charles M. Blow: A Mighty Pale Tea
Margaret Bassett: The Roots of Stalin in the Tea Party Movement (1 comments)
Friday, April 16:
Margaret Bassett: American Troops Pull Out of Korengal Valley as Strategy Shifts
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Tea Party's After-Party: More Extremism as Gun Rights Activists Hit Washington
Grant Lawrence: Tax the Stinking Rich: the Top 10 Ways
Sheila Samples: The Cost of No
Richmond Shreve: Climate Change - Building a Green Economy
Robert Arend: The Nation: Disposable Soldiers by Joshua Kors (4 comments)
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: The Fire Next Time - NYTimes.com (2 comments)
Thursday, April 15:
Margaret Bassett: Why Are the Feds Giving $900 Billion in Tax Breaks Every Year?
Sheila Samples: Robert Reich: The Republican Strategy on Financial Reform: Make Democrats Look Like Patsies for the Street (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: David Rovics: Tea Parties, Espresso Snobs, Freedom and Equality
Margaret Bassett: In Defense of Public School Teachers in a Time of Crisis (4 comments)
Diane V. McLoughlin: Donkey to Shrek - or- Letter to Netanyahu on mass expulsions (1 comments)
Wednesday, April 14:
B. Ross Ashley: Straight Goods - Terrorism is a technique, not an enemy - Political posturing obscures the variety of motives for terror
Sheila Samples: Geoffrey R. Stone: Our Fill-in-the-Blank Constitution
Margaret Bassett: The Case Against Elena Kagan
Margaret Bassett: The Whistleblower They Ignored
Margaret Bassett: Financial Reform: Five Fights to Watch
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Obama's Nuclear Summit: Invisible for Conservatives?
Scott Baker: The Price of Assassination By ROBERT WRIGHT, NY Times
Sheila Samples: Ruth Marcus - Vilifying Tom Coburn for a moment of civility
Richmond Shreve: Nuclear Fallout | The New Republic (1 comments)
Claras: Greece: the deeper source of anti-authoritarian terrorism
Billy Wharton: NYC Doorman's Strike Threatens the Upwardly Mobile - Billy Wharton
Tuesday, April 13:
Sheila Samples: Bob Herbert: Dealing With a Recession That's "a Different Creature'
M. Wizard: Matt Tabbai: "Looting Main Street" (1 comments)
Andreas Umland: Ukraine: Constitutional Dead End. By Halya Coynash
Sheila Samples: Sexual abuse and the Catholic Church
Richmond Shreve: Timothy Geithner - Strong Reforms Needed (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Roadmap to a New Economics: Beyond Capitalism and Socialism
Sheila Samples: David Corn: The Tragedy of John McCain
Monday, April 12:
Joan Brunwasser: Hillary for the Court
Boris Krumov: The Return of Industrial Policy - by Dani Rodrik - Project Syndicate
Iftekhar Sayeed: The ethnocidal civilization
Andreas Umland: Is Europe Losing Ukraine? EU representatives have failed to stand up against the recent decline of Ukrainian democracy
Sheila Samples: Cindy Sheehan: Take This Empire and Shove It!
Sheila Samples: The Lunatic Right Will NOT Take Control of Congress
Sheila Samples: The Five Creepiest Moments of the Southern Republican Leadership Conference
Sheila Samples: The Republicans are acting like frat boys in Animal House - only angrier
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman - Bank Failures - Why Georgia?
Sunday, April 11:
Sheila Samples: To achieve Mideast peace, Obama must make a bold Mideast trip
Saturday, April 10:
Sheila Samples: Frank Rich: No One Is to Blame for Anything (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Is anyone in charge at Fox News?
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Justice Stevens, Last Of His Line (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: How Christianity Lost Jesus (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Bob Herbert: Demos, a Voice of Reason
Sheila Samples: Karen Kwiatkowski: This Is War
Margaret Bassett: Air Farce: Qatari Diplomat Cuffed In-Flight (2 comments)
Arlene montemarano: It's Time for a 21st Century Health Revolution | Health Freedom News
Friday, April 9:
Gustav Wynn: If Colin Powell Had A Conscience: Lt. Wilkerson Defends Innocent Detainees
Margaret Bassett: Why Working People Are Angry and Why Politicians Should Listen \
Sheila Samples: Does Rush Limbaugh Really Matter?
Sheila Samples: Leonard Pitts, Jr. - Terrorism has no religious preferences
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Learning From Greece
Mac McKinney: War! What is it Good For? 1969 Video, Going Back in Time (2 comments)
Thursday, April 8:
Sheila Samples: Power Struggle: Inside The Battle For The Soul Of The Democratic Party (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: How health care overhaul improves insurance (1 comments)
Richmond Shreve: Europe's worrying gerontocracy | The Economist
Sheila Samples: Dana Milbank - Greenspan reflects on crisis, deflects blame
Sheila Samples: Armchair warriors
Sheila Samples: Evidence That Iran Is Developing Nukes? Don't Expect Any This Time Around -- Mark R. Crovelli
Wednesday, April 7:
Mac McKinney: FROM FAIR: Iraq Killings and Media Indifference
Sheila Samples: Iran's calls for N-free Mideast should be backed
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Obama Goes Nuclear -- and We Should Be Glad
Richmond Shreve: What Are Nukes Good For? | The New Republic (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: The Labor Department Offers Some "Help' to Workers
Sheila Samples: David Ignatius - Obama weighs new peace plan for the Middle East
Joan Brunwasser: Congress Must Break Up the Banks
Tuesday, April 6:
Sheila Samples: The United States takes the matter of three-headed babies very seriously
Sheila Samples: Guilty of Sedition? How the Right Is Undermining Our Government's Authority and Capability to Run the Country
Sheila Samples: Fred Phelps' Westboro is a church in name only
Sheila Samples: James Fallows: Further on the Wikileaks Iraq Footage (1 comments)
Russ Buchanan: L.A. County 'whups' the entire state of Texas in death sentences (1 comments)
Ernest Canning: 'Food, Inc.' and the Tyranny of a Corporate Controlled Economy by Ernest A. Canning (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Glen Greenwald: How Americans are Propagandized about Afghanistan (1 comments)
Monday, April 5:
Josh Mitteldorf: Method to Republican Madness, by Robert Parry (3 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Do-It-Yourself Financial Freedom - 12 Steps for a Safe Retirement
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Political Extremism: Made in the GOP?
Richmond Shreve: The Perils Of Polarization | The New Republic
Richmond Shreve: Street Fight | The New Republic
Sheila Samples: Commentary: Explaining the GOP's health care overhaul problem
Margaret Bassett: The Next Supreme Court Justice Nominee (2 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Trade Villain of Its Own Making
Grant Lawrence: More Wacky Weirdness from Texas
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Making Financial Reform Fool-Resistant
Sunday, April 4:
Darren Wolfe: The Hutarees: Exposure and Vulnerability
Grant Lawrence: Israel has Cost US Taxpayer's 1.6 Trillion Since 1973
GLloyd Rowsey: A Few Months Ago: Fidel Recalls the Previous 51 Years (1 comments)
Darren Wolfe: Naomi Wolf Thinks the Tea Parties Help Fight Fascism -- Is She Onto Something or in Fantasy Land? (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Maureen Dowd: A Devil of a Scandal (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: When It Comes to Terror, We Can't Tell You
Sheila Samples: Frank Rich: It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Obama!
Saturday, April 3:
Joan Brunwasser: Why Bush, Murdoch, O'Reilly and the rest of the scum of the earth hate J.K. Rowling (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Offshore drilling: Did Rahm Emanuel sell out too soon? - Joe Conason (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Avner Cohen: We look at Iran and see ourselves
Sheila Samples: Put the pope in the dock
Sheila Samples: Hannity's "Freedom Concerts" May be Landing on a Special List: A List of Charities Not to be Trusted with Public Donatio
Sheila Samples: What Jesus Meant
Friday, April 2:
Margaret Bassett: Rising From ACORN's Fall - Video (2 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: MoveOn: Say No to "Drill Baby Drill"!
Joan Brunwasser: Robert Reich: The Fed in Hot Water
Margaret Bassett: The Criminal NSA Eavesdropping Program
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Financial Reform 101 (1 comments)
Thursday, April 1:
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Ruling Against Bush Wiretaps Also Slaps Down Obama's Executive Overreach
Sheila Samples: U.S. will eventually love health care overhaul
Sheila Samples: Video: Glenn Beck Meets with Jim Wallis for Social Justice Dialogue - April Fuhl
Sheila Samples: Shocking Admission on Killing Civilians by Top US General Almost Completely Ignored by Corporate Media
Sheila Samples: Naomi Klein: Open Letter to Berkeley Students on their Historic Israeli Divestment Bill (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Jane Mayer: Who Killed Gul Rahman?
Sheila Samples: David Ignatius - U.S. campaign to reform Kandahar is rife with pitfalls
Darren Wolfe: John McCain: American hero or American hater?
Grant Lawrence: Six Million Crucifixions: Vatican Ratlines Gave Shelter to Notorious Holocaust Mass Murderers