Archives for Best Web OpEds
August 2012
Friday, August 31:
Karl Rove: If Akin's "Found Mysteriously Murdered, Don't Look For My Whereabouts!' (1 comments)
The Key Points From Ben Bernanke's Jackson Hole Speech
Eugene Robinson: The GOP's steady diet of whoppers
Closer Than You Think: Top 15 Things Romney and Obama Agree On
Report on the Latest Developments on the Marikana Massacre | Socialist Organizer
Steve Bridges as President Obama - August 2011 - YouTube
Michael Moore on Clint Eastwood's Delusional and Detached from Reality Speech at the Republican National Convention (1 comments)
Paul Krugman: The Medicare Killers
Thursday, August 30:
The Triumph of the Reich-Publican Party
Yasser Arafat: France opens murder inquiry, by BBC
Dan Froomkin: GOP Convention, Mitt Romney Haunted By Ghost Of George W. Bush
Juan Cole: Top Ten Repeated Paul Ryan Lies
"Dumbest Idea in the World": Corporate America's False and Dangerous Ideology
Six Reasons America Spends More on Prisons than Higher Education
Ann Romney Wants Hispanic Voters To Get Past "Their Biases"
Wednesday, August 29:
E.J. Dionne Jr: The GOP's tough-love approach -- heavy on the tough
Mark Morford: How to spot completely miserable women
Matt Taibbi: Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital (3 comments)
Mitt Romney's Republicans Are a Party of Naysayers
Dana Milbank: A momentary Ron Paul revolt at the GOP convention
The Global 1%: Exposing the Transnational Ruling Class (1 comments)
Bulldozing the Special Relationship
Bernie Sanders: The American People Are Angry (video) (2 comments)
Tuesday, August 28:
Rocky Anderson: "Should Be" President of the United States
Sean Lennon: Destroying Precious Land to Drill for Gas
Dan Froomkin: Obama, Romney and the Low-Wage Future of America
Eugene Robinson: Republicans steal Medicare from the Democrats
Orwell's 1984 Solution to Criminalize War: "If There was Hope, it must Lie in the Proles" (2 comments)
Monday, August 27:
She's Just an Easy-Bake Oven: How the GOP and the Anti-Choice Movement See Women
William Lazonick: Big payouts to shareholders are holding back prosperity (2 comments)
LOL Of The Week: Mitt Humors All The Wrong People
If Obama loses the election, here's why - The Washington Post (43 comments)
Why Mitt Romney Gets Squeamish About Mormon Tithing
David Corn: Mitt Romney and GOP in Tampa: How Low Will They Go?
Paul Krugman: The Comeback Skid
Sunday, August 26:
Going Undercover at the GOP's Voter Vigilante Project to Disrupt the Nov. Election
"The Loneliness of Noam Chomsky" by Arundhati Roy
How Romney's Millions Went Tax-Free Overseas
Maureen Dowd: Too Late to Shake That Etch A Sketch
Why a Hidatsa Cares About Pe'Sla (1 comments)
Land Grabs in the Developing World
Saturday, August 25:
Romney's Energy Plan: Let States Manage Public Lands
Romney-Ryan Republicans pray to Jesus but bow to Ayn Rand - latimes.com
Global Warming's Terrifying New Math | Common Dreams (1 comments)
Denying health care to the poor is no "win for women"
Colbert King: Time for Mitt Romney to come clean on his taxes
Lance Armstrong Accepts US Lifetime Ban and Stripped of All Tour De France Wins (2 comments)
Can State-Owned Development Banks Save America? (1 comments)
Fear of a Black President - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Friday, August 24:
The US and Iran: Calling Netanyahu's Bluff
When Empathy Is Greater Than Real World Wisdom
The Abortion Wire - Jan Wilberg, Open Salon
Legitimate Rape: Music by the Renegade Raging Grannies (1 comments)
Bill Maher: My New Rule for Todd Akin and the Republican Party (8 comments)
Paul Ryan's Top 10 Falsehoods and Outrages ... from Just His First Week on the Campaign Trail
Paul Krugman: Galt, Gold and Gold
Thursday, August 23:
Who's Watching the N.S.A. Watchers?
E.J. Dionne: Elizabeth Warren vs. Mr. Personality
Fields of Heaven: A Joint Israeli-Palestinian Farm May Take Root in West Bank
Why Believe Romney Now, After His Lies on Medicare, Bain & Taxes? (1 comments)
Obama, Romney Campaigns Duck Future U.S. Role In Afghanistan War
Wednesday, August 22:
Michael Kinsley: Paul Ryan prepares to lead, guided by Ayn Rand
Paul Ryan Cosponsored All the Most Extreme Anti-Abortion Bills
Harry Reid Could View Romney Tax Returns, With Help From Senate Republicans
Amy Fried, Ph.D.: It's Not Just Abortion: The Far-Reaching Conservative War on Women's Health
How your bank account will disappear, by Jeff Nielson
Martin Luther King's Review Of The Good Samaritan
Scared and silent - censoring the truth under Obama
Banks Falsify Credit Card Lawsuits in Ninety Percent of Cases? by Blacklistednews
Why Are Things Crumbling Around Us and Could Easily Get Worse? (1 comments)
Tuesday, August 21:
Center for American Progress Action Fund
Eugene Robinson: Todd Akin comment brings "war on women" back to prominence (1 comments)
Forget Washington: Here's how we'd fix the economy, by CNN Fortune
Assange Or Corzine? by Tyler Durden
When the Weakest Critical Part Fails, the Machine Breaks Down , by Charles H. Smith
Syria: Two Sides of the Same Coin? (2 comments)
A Tale of Three CEOs: Romney, Bain, and a Crooked Executive's Overlooked Story
From Citizens United to Super PACs: A Campaign Finance Reading Guide
Monday, August 20:
Juan Cole: Anonymous Billionaires Are Stealing Your Election
Iceland Was Right, We Were Wrong: The IMF
Todd Akin: Women Can't Get Pregnant from "Legitimate Rape" (1 comments)
Progressives: Paul Ryan, the 2012 Gift the Keeps on Giving
The Gray And The Brown: The Generational Mismatch
Sunday, August 19:
Paul Krugman: An Unserious Man
The new robber barons: how taxpayers subsidise CEOs' multimillion salaries | Pratap Chatterjee
Saturday, August 18:
I Could Not Register To Vote! The Voter Identification MANDATE (2 comments)
Joe Conason: GOP Consultant: Koch Brothers Bought Ryan's Nomination With $100 Million Promise
In Defense of Julian Assange - Kyle Schmidlin - Open Salon
Mitt Romney's tax returns: the "voter fraud" theory
What's gone wrong at The Guardian?
Obama in the Desert of Centrism (Thomas Frank in Sept Harper's) (1 comments)
In Thrall to Sheldon Adelson (3 comments)
Friday, August 17:
Startling Evidence That Central Banks And Wall Street Insiders Are Rapidly Preparing For Something BIG (7 comments)
The Big Lie Of The Day: The Osama Swiftboaters
The west has just become a giant banana republic
The Medicare feud explained: both sides would cut but GOP more
Israeli threats about Iran -- crying wolf or laying groundwork?
The Right to Counsel at Guantánamo Bay
26 Corporations That Paid Their CEOs More Than Uncle Sam, By Josh Harkinson (1 comments)
Thursday, August 16:
Charles Blow: The Electoral Art of War
Victoire Ingabire and the refugee crisis in D.R. Congo
Wednesday, August 15:
Matt Taibbi: Goldman Non-Prosecution: AG Eric Holder Has No Balls (5 comments)
Ryan Sponsored Abortion Bill That Would Make Romney's Kids Criminals
Mark Morford: Mitt Romney vs. dead potted plant (1 comments)
Maureen Dowd: When Cruelty Is Cute
Tuesday, August 14:
Why Goldman Sachs, Other Wall Street Titans Are Not Being Prosecuted (20 comments)
Israel and Iran (2 comments)
The Fed's Gold Is Being Audited... By The US Treasury, by Zero Hedge
Monday, August 13:
Introducing A New Series on Organizing Experiences: The Labor Party Question | Socialist Organizer
Bankster Fraud Has Driven 100 Million Into Poverty, Killing Many, by WashingtonsBlog
"Romney Hood" Is The Return Of Reagan's Starve The Beast Strategy
Lunatic Ayn Rand, Paul Ryan's Biggest Influence
Privacy as a Positive Good, by Paul Rosenberg
Krugman Now Sees the Perversity of Economics' "Culture of Fraud", By William K. Black
Middle-Class: The End of Retirement as You Have Known it! (1 comments)
Bill Keller: The Romney Package
Sunday, August 12:
Was Keynes More than a Little Wrong? (1 comments)
The United States and its comrade-in-arms, Al Qaeda. And other tales of an empire gone mad.
Saturday, August 11:
12 Things You Should Know About Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan
Joseph Stiglitz: 'This Deficit Fetishism Is Killing Our Economy' (1 comments)
Mitt Romney Heaves A "Hail Mary" To Paul Ryan, Surrenders To The Far Right
Friday, August 10:
Biden: McConnell decided to withhold all cooperation even before we took office
The Romney Campaign Blows Racial Foghorn
The Palestine Romney doesn't know
PAGOP Actions To Block Libertarian Candidate from Ballot Un-American
Connecting-The-Dots to America's Economic Malaise (2 comments)
Hammerskins Tied To Two American Terror Cases
Eugene Robinson: Heating up debate on climate change (1 comments)
The Central Role of Faux Republicans in the Anatomy of Decline
The Screwed Election: Wall Street Can't Lose, and America Can't Win
Thursday, August 9:
Romney on not releasing more tax returns: "I'm not a business"
Mr. Romney Hits Bottom on Welfare
Wednesday, August 8:
Roseanne Barr: Why You Should Vote for Me for President (1 comments)
GOP Insider: How Religion Destroyed My Party (2 comments)
Toxic Walgreens: Walgreens deliberately mishandled waste, lawsuit says
Tuesday, August 7:
We honor Sikhs by learning about them
Harry Reid Is Vilified by a Press Corps That Tolerates Much Worse From the Right
Eugene Robinson: Warring over tax returns
Exclusive: The Pentagon's Shocking Cover-Up Of The Afghan National Military Hospital Scandal
Iran and Everything Else by Michael Parenti
Expose the Hoax! Save Social Security, Medicare!
5 Things You Can Expect from Washington if You Elect Republicans
Fred Krupp: A New Climate-Change Consensus
GOP Voter Suppression, Veterans Edition
Monday, August 6:
College Costs Too Much Because Faculty Lack Power
Joe Conason: The "Missing Evidence' In Romney's Tax Records
Climate change is here -- and worse than we thought
US-led sanctions on Iran, invasion of a nation's rights: Analyst
Right-Wing Plan for Defeating Obama: Gin Up the Hate
The gun crime map of America: interactive
Sunday, August 5:
California Passes Homeowners Bill of Rights
Michael Tomasky on the (Possible) Coming Obama Landslide (1 comments)
Military Hazing Has to Stop (1 comments)
What Went Wrong in Wisconsin and Where Does Labor Go From Here? (5 comments)
Uncle Sam's Eye in your Computer
Washington's press is the cabin boy of the political class -- do quote me on that
Saturday, August 4:
Why We're Totally Psyched About Bill Clinton's Comeback (3 comments)
How Mitt Romney Got Rich Destroying American Jobs and Promoting Sweatshop Capitalism
The State of America's Children 2012
The Long, Lawless Ride of Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Joe Conason: Chick-fil-A: Pigging Out On "Biblical Principles"
Charles M. Blow: The Curious Case of Chavis Carter (1 comments)
Closer Scrutiny of For-Profit Schools - NYTimes.com
America is a Democracy? Really?
Friday, August 3:
ASA : Congresswoman Introduces Bill to Protect Landlords of Compliant Medical Marijuana Businesses (1 comments)
Why Would Rocky Anderson Help Form the Justice Party and Run for President? (1 comments)
False Promises at For-Profit Colleges
Dullest Campaign Ever - NYTimes.com
Learning in Classrooms Versus Online
Corporate crime: Basic economics (1 comments)
Eugene Robinson: The emerging "drone' culture
Eight co-sponsors of "audit the Fed' bill vote against it without explanation | Fox News (1 comments)
Thursday, August 2:
Paul Krugman: Debt, Depression, DeMarco (1 comments)
Julian Assange is right to fear US prosecution
7 Ways Mitt Romney's Plan Would Destroy America's Schools
Matt Taibbi: Ludicrous Times Op-Ed Forgets Entire Year of Wall Street History
New Analysis Shows Romney Tax Plan Would Raise Taxes On Middle Class Families
Wednesday, August 1:
Mitt Romney: Culture Does Matter (1 comments)
Mitt Romney's insult-the-world tour excels in picking on the Palestinians