Archives for Best Web OpEds
July 2011
Sunday, July 31:
Lawrence Davidson: Putting Israel's Interests First
Sheila Dean: FBI Director's Term Extension Ensures Neo-COINTELPRO Operations Will Prevail | The Dissenter
Saturday, July 30:
The Essential Rules Of Tyranny
Is Standard and Poor's Manipulating US Debt Rating to Escape Liability for the Mortgage Crisis? (4 comments)
Friday, July 29:
Robert Reich: The Empty Bully Pulpit
Ron Paul's Urgent Warning On The Inevitable Collapse Of The Dollar - Higgins (5 comments)
Kevin Drum: Why Is Obama Such a Wimp? (8 comments)
Moshe Adler: Without a Debt Deal, Obama Can Make the Rich Pay
Paul Krugman: The Centrist Cop-Out (5 comments)
Eugene Robinson: Why the progressives need a Big Idea
Censorship of war casualties in the US
Paul Krugman: The Centrist Cop-Out
Thursday, July 28:
America at war: The failures of Petraeus and McChrystal - Raja (2 comments)
E.J. Dionne Jr -- Yes to moderation, no to centrism
I'm starting to think that the Left might actually be right
Why The GOP Aims To Sink The Economy
Amy Fried, Ph.D.: The painful price of deficit hysteria, Julian Zelizer
Jon Stewart Blasts Fox News for Playing the Victim Card in Reporting on the Norwegian Mass Murderer
A taxpayer-supported campaign against Big Government
Wednesday, July 27:
Love Comes More Naturally to the Human Heart -- Mandela
Harold Myerson: The GOP holds out for more on the debt standoff
Sociopaths by Proxy: Kent Pitman at Open Salon (1 comments)
I Do Not Want Mercy, I Want You To Join Me: Tim DeChristopher (4 comments)
Tuesday, July 26:
5 Reasons Michele Bachmann Is the New Sarah Palin
Carl Bernstein: Rupert Murdoch as Citizen
Donald Trump Tells GOP To Default Just to Screw Obama
July 26: Cuba's Revolution, Morality and Solidarity, By Ron Ridenour (3 comments)
This is Considered Punishment?
Laughing at the People of Walmart While Class Warfare Rages in America, by William Hicks
Monday, July 25:
John Smith: The Islamophobia of killing Norwegians (1 comments)
Dana Milbank: Obama and Boehner take on Washington
The Greater Threat: Christian Extremism From Timothy McVeigh to Anders Breivik
Will a "Super Congress" Gut the Constitution - Just Like the Federal Reserve?
Paul Krugman: Clive Cook is Drowning America
Elizabeth Drew -- How Obama can end the agony
Thomas L. Friedman -- Make Way for the Radical Center
It must have been those Muslims!
Paul Krugman: Messing With Medicare
Sunday, July 24:
Paul Krugman: Messing With Medicare
Nicholas D. Kristof: Republicans, Zealots and Our Security
Obama Gets Angry, Republicans Repeating History (2 comments)
The Liberated Keith Olbermann Is Making Powerful TV (1 comments)
In Bid for Control of GOP, Tea Party Brings U.S. to Brink of Economic Calamity
Saturday, July 23:
US Designs to Destabilise Asia - Shaukat (1 comments)
Mossad Down Under-Again? - Bolton
At least 1,400 arrests for antiwar dissent, but who's counting? Not the press.
The Pretense of Medical Knowledge, by Andrew Foy MD (14 comments)
John Smith: 500 Million Debt-Serfs: The European Union Is a Neo-Feudal Kleptocracy, by Charles Hugh Smith (2 comments)
Friday, July 22:
Libya, Obama and the "Other Wars" by B.A.R. Executive Editor Glen Ford (2 comments)
The Murdoch scandal (6 comments)
Why the Wealthiest Americans Are the Real 'Job-Killers'
Time We Got Back (to the basics of revolution) (3 comments)
Got Them Ole' Social 'Curity Blues by Scanner
The Atlanta School Cheating Scandal -
The Sordid History Of News Corp.'s Roger Ailes (1 comments)
Freedom of expression subverted in Israel, US
BAIL: Eye-balling the Fifth Century, by Fred Reed
Glenn Greenwald: Obama Gutting Core Principles of Democratic Party (1 comments)
Paul Krugman: The Lesser Depression
Ralph Gomory: The Real Crime: Concentration of Power
Thursday, July 21:
Yes, but I still back sources on Israelis -Tulett (1 comments)
Mark Benjamin: Afghan VIPs Steal $10 Million From You Every Day, in Cash (1 comments)
E.J. Dionne Jr. -- GOP leaders must free themselves from the Tea Party's grip
Matt Taibbi: How Rupert Murdoch Dragged Media Into the Swamp
Nicholas D. Kristof: Bonuses for Billionaires
6 Ways To Free America from Wall Street: David Korten (3 comments)
Whose Nukes are Safer? - Shaukat
Wednesday, July 20:
Legislative Magic Trick May Prove Debt Ceiling Remedy - NYTimes.com (3 comments)
Another ATF Arms Sales Scandal: "Operation Castaway"
Republicans Are Signing Away the Right to Govern -
Tuesday, July 19:
Should Adults Bring Kids To R-Rated Movies? (3 comments)
In the Ozarks, a Home With Room to Spare (72,000 Square Feet)
Monday, July 18:
E.J. Dionne Jr. -- Why did Congress waste six months?
Elizabeth Warren: A Big Week for the New Consumer Agency (1 comments)
Paul Krugman: Letting the Banks Walk
Robert Kuttner: The End Game: Saving Obama From Himself
David Corn -- Elizabeth Warren: Passed Over for CFPB Post, But... (1 comments)
Paul Krugman: Letting Bankers Walk
Secret Diplomacy behind Mumbai Blasts - Shaukut
How to stabilise Pakistan: get out of Afghanistan - Tariq Ali
Sunday, July 17:
Trust Me, This Debt Ceiling is Going to Be Raised
Marcus Bachmann Gay: How Rumors Could Affect Michele Bachmann's Campaign
Our Broken Escalator By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Saturday, July 16:
Budget Cuts to S.E.C. Reduce Its Effectiveness - James P Stewart
Daniel C. Maguire: Where Rachel Maddow Dares Not Tread
Joel Shatzky: A Tale of Two Nations
They, Too, Sing America - Charels M Blow
Urgency and Common Sense on Debt Ceiling Don't Penetrate the House - NYTimes.com (1 comments)
Friday, July 15:
Paul Krugman: Getting to Crazy
Elizabeth Warren's Summer Grilling
Bill Boyarsky: "Entitlement' Is a Republican Word (3 comments)
Thursday, July 14:
30 Days to FREE Vanunu Mordechai
Robert Reich: The President's Jobs Plan (Not)
Breaking News: Source claims ATF's Tampa SAC walked guns to Honduras
Is America still "My country, right or wrong"?
Nicholas D. Kristof: The Opposing Party
Wednesday, July 13:
Pepe Escobar: Why the US won't leave Afghanistan
Sheila Dean: NSTIC as a National ID by Aaron Titus
Justice Department Obstructing 'Fast and Furious' Gun Probe, ATF Director Says
Steve Chapman: The overhyped defense cuts
Dana Milbank: Eric Cantor's slick upper lip
Tuesday, July 12:
Sheila Dean: Guilty Until Proven Guilty
Eugene Robinson: Don't blame "both sides' for debt impasse
Deficit Predators: Everything You Need to Know About the Twisted, Dangerous Debt Ceiling Fight
Everything You Need to Know About the Twisted, Dangerous Debt Ceiling Fight
David Corn: Rep. Ryan Quiet on His Own Medicare Plan
Monday, July 11:
Matt Taibbi: Obama Doesn't Want a Progressive Deficit Deal (2 comments)
Casey Dan Abrams: Anthony Coverage: Less Dangerous Than Political Reporting
Paul Krugman: No, We Can’t? Or Won’t?
Reagan Mythology is Leading US Off a Cliff (2 comments)
Paul Krugman: No, We Can't? Or Won't?
US Independence Day reflections
Sunday, July 10:
News World news John Walker Lindh America's 'detainee 001' -- the persecution of John Walker Lindh - Frank Lind (2 comments)
Carl Gibson: Tax the Rich. Problem Solved
The evils of unregulated capitalism (1 comments)
This Entire Debt Limit Discussion Is Outrageous!
James Petras: Multi-Billion-Dollar Terrorists and the Disappearing Middle Class
Education Reform, Done Correctly
Murdoch's malign influence must die with the News of the World
Saturday, July 9:
Family Feud: Blacks Battle Blacks over Criticism of Obama, by Linn Washington, Jr.
Carl Bernstein: Is Phone-Hacking Scandal Murdoch's Watergate?
Judge on Suspicionless Laptop Searches & Seizures: Better Off Leaving Devices at Home (2 comments)
Matt Taibbi: JP Morgan Chase Fine: Another Slap on the Wrist for Wall Street
Bernstein: Murdoch's Watergate?
Andy Kroll: Where Are the Jobs, Dammit!?
Friday, July 8:
Indian Double Game with Bangladesh - Shaukat (1 comments)
We've Attacked Libya With $368 Million Worth of Bombs by Conor Friedersdorf
VIPR Searches and the American Citizen: "Dominate. Intimidate. Control" (1 comments)
Richard Levy: The Fat Lady Didn't Sing ... It's Not Over Yet
Paul Krugman: What Obama Wants (1 comments)
Sheila Dean: Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security | Truthout
The next, worse financial crisis - Arends
Thursday, July 7:
The Strange Silencing of Liberal America (1 comments)
Lawrence Davidson: On Flotillas and the Law
Afghan war was a waste of Canadian lives - Walkom
The Breaking Point By: Jane Hamsher
Democrats and Labor: A Murder-Suicide Pact, by B.A.R. Managing Editor Bruce Dixon
Nicholas D. Kristof: Taxes and Billionaires
Ezra Klein: Obama's budget more regressive than Reagan's
Sam Smith: The normalcy bubble
Jim Wallis: The Debt Ceiling Play: My "CliffsNotes' Version
The 4th of July, Hip-Hop and National "Inattentional Blindness", By Jared Bell (2 comments)
Wednesday, July 6:
More Folly in the Debt Limit Talks - editorial NYTimes.com
India's Self-deception on Kashmir - Shaukat
FOCUS: The New Antiwar Republicans - Lawrence (2 comments)
David Corn -- Bill Clinton: Debt Talks Missing One Big Point
Sam Bahour : Welcome to Palestine -- if you can get in
Katrina anden Huevel: Invoke the 14th -- and end the debt standoff
David Brooks: The Mother of All No-Brainers (1 comments)
Mark Morford: 2050, the year we all eat each other
Ademo's "Improper Influence" or Edward Burke's Abuse of Power? - You Decide
7 Pieces of Good News Nobody Is Reporting - by Kristi Harrison (3 comments)
A Greek Tragedy: Seizing the Gaza Flotilla on Israel's Orders
Tuesday, July 5:
Jack D. Douglas: The Petraeus-CIA Powergrab
Power-Hungry Devices - NYTimes.com
Afghanistan: US Victory in Defeat - Walberg
A Logistics Miracle Is Really A Logistics Nightmare - Culture of Life News
Obama administration shuts down investigations into Bush-era torture (6 comments)
Send Me to Arizona to Free Arpaio's Political Prisoners
Israel is trying to blackmail the world, and outsource the siege of Gaza'
Why the Left Fears Libertarianism by Anthony Gregory (2 comments)
Monday, July 4:
The Mother of All No-Brainers - David Brooks (1 comments)
The Amazing Centristman - Slide Show - NYTimes.com
Failures of Intelligence Is Why "America is Beautiful But She Has An Ugly Side"
An African Adventure, and a Revelation - Nickolas Kristoff
Holly Sklar and Scott Klinger: Real patriots pay taxes (1 comments)
E.J. Dionne, Jr. -- What our Declaration really said
Paul Krugman: Corporate Cash Con
Dan Froomkin: Is Torture In America's Future As Well As In Our Country's Past?
Frank Rich -- Obama's Original Sin
Sunday, July 3:
The Tentacles of Megas: Reaching from the Government to the Emasculated Watchdogs - Sibel Edmonds
Saturday, July 2:
Libya: Unending American Hostility - Blum (2 comments)
Afghan War will Shift to India? - Shaukat
Islamic Scare Paid for with Our Tax Dollars - Berkowitz
Friday, July 1:
Eugene Robinson: Assassination by robot: Are we justified?
Mark Levine: Waiting for Godot on the Gaza flotilla
John Smith: Washington Plans Further Actions Against Venezuela, by Eva Golinger (4 comments)
The Bestiary: Native Fauna of the Democratic Party, by Stop Me Before I Vote Again
John Smith: Don't believe everything you see and read about Gaddafi, by Patrick Cockburn (7 comments)
Paul Krugman: To the Limit (1 comments)
Washington Okays Attack on Unarmed U.S. Ship