Archives for Best Web OpEds
July 2013
Wednesday, July 31:
Poll: Sarah Palin Would Face Uphill Battle In U.S. Senate Race
President Offers To Give Republicans The Store, They Demand More (1 comments)
Glenn Greenwald's Much-Anticipated Congressional Hearing Cancelled (1 comments)
President Obama's no-Congress strategy
Bradley Manning: not the enemy
Tuesday, July 30:
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
Free Trade: Not the Free Lunch Americans Were Led to Expected (3 comments)
With Its Foreign Policy, The Obama Administration Is Turning Hypocrisy Into An Art Form
David Corn: Groundswell: A Secret Tape Reveals How It Lobbied Boehner and Issa on Benghazi
Monday, July 29:
Lee Camp: Anti-Protest Law Passes Nearly Unanimously And Is Signed
Harvard Law School Speech: "Why Journalists Fear the NDAA" - Amber Lyon
Anthony Weiner's campaign manager quits as candidate faces calls to drop out
Paul Krugman: Stranded by Sprawl
Sunday, July 28:
Amash-Conyers Amendment: Democrats, Republicans Unite Against NSA Surveillance (1 comments)
Peter Buffett: The Charitable-Industrial Complex (1 comments)
Saturday, July 27:
Stand Your Ground (1 comments)
Is It Legal Malpractice to Fail to Get Holder to Promise Not To Torture Your Client? (1 comments)
Jim Rickards: Most Likely Outcome Is Still A Monetary Collapse
Manning and Snowden light path for the US to return to its better self
Trayvon Martin Is Dead; The GOP Isn't (5 comments)
Here's A Campaign Ad That Might Actually Make You Cry
How Nancy Pelosi Saved the NSA Surveillance Program (2 comments)
David Corn: Inside Groundswell: Memos of the New Right-Wing Strategy Group Planning a "30 Front War"
Friday, July 26:
Monsanto leaves farmers "enslaved in a new kind of serfdom' (1 comments)
Al-Qaeda unleashed against Syria and Irag with acceptance of the West
The Case for Censoring Hate Speech (3 comments)
Paul Krugman: Republican Health Care Panic
Three Lessons for Libertarian Populists (1 comments)
Thursday, July 25:
Kerry bearing good news for Syrian opposition in bid to affirm US engagement
Democratic establishment unmasked: prime defenders of NSA bulk spying (1 comments)
Wednesday, July 24:
Meet President Obama's new economic message. Same as his old economic message. (1 comments)
Don't Repeal Any Laws, Repeal John Boehner
Edward Snowden is no 'traitor'
Health Care Reform Drives Republicans Stark, Raving Mad
Tuesday, July 23:
Detroit's decline is a distinctively capitalist failure (8 comments)
Fourth Circuit Decision on James Risen Seems to Support WikiLeaks (2 comments)
Abu Ghraib Prison Break: Hundreds Of Detainees, Including Senior Al Qaeda Members, Escape Facility (1 comments)
Monday, July 22:
Insolvent Spain Forced To "Borrow" From Social Security Fund To Pay Pensions (1 comments)
The US Government Is Metamorphosing Into the Borg (4 comments)
Report questions costs of villas and mansions for top military brass (1 comments)
Paul Krugman: Detroit, the New Greece
Robert Reich: Detroit, and the Bankruptcy of America's Social Contract
Sunday, July 21:
Paul Krugman: Detroit, the New Greece (3 comments)
If You're a Bond Investor, Beware of the Seesaw - By JEFF SOMMERNYTimes.com (1 comments)
Justice Sequestered - NYTimes.com (1 comments)
A Shuffle of Aluminum, but to Banks, Pure Gold - DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI NYTimes.com (1 comments)
Ebony Magazine -- Herman Wallace and Nelson Mandela: A Tale of Two Heroes
Saturday, July 20:
Corporate America has a Flare for Solar Industry Investment | Environmental Defense Fund
The GOP Can't Reboot With Bigots In Its Midst
Thursday, July 18:
Paul Krugman: Hitting China's Wall (1 comments)
The Arms Race at Home - NYTimes.com (2 comments)
Silda Wall Spitzer avoids Eliot's comptroller campaign. Does it matter?
House To Return From Monthlong Vacation To Grueling, 9-Day Work Month
"Rifleman" Flemmi's opening salvo: Whitey Bulger was FBI informant
Iran is no threat: Our Middle East "allies" are
The Drone That Killed My Grandson (2 comments)
Wednesday, July 17:
Bay Area Climate Change Plan Won't Actually Reduce Emissions | KQED News Fix (1 comments)
Tuesday, July 16:
Liz Cheney: Dick Cheney's daughter to challenge Mike Enzi in Wyoming's GOP senate primary (3 comments)
NSA Snooping: The War on Terror Is America's Mania
What You May Not Know About the Zimmerman Verdict: The Evolution of a Jury Instruction (2 comments)
Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin on city's bold plan to stem foreclosures | KALW (3 comments)
Juror says Zimmerman went "above and beyond" but that race was not an issue (1 comments)
Monday, July 15:
Juror Who Found Zimmerman Innocent Cashing In With Book Deal, Called Martin "A Boy of Color" (1 comments)
WHY the NSA is Spying on us - Potential for Blackmail (1 comments)
Paul Krugman: Hunger Games, U.S.A. (3 comments)
Sunday, July 14:
3 New Studies Link Bee Decline to Bayer Pesticide | Mother Jones (1 comments)
Democratic Party officials, unions, seek quick end to Bay Area California transit strike - Infoshop News (1 comments)
Elizabeth Warren’s Long Game Against Wall Street (1 comments)
Saturday, July 13:
Missing -- The Food Stamp Program (2 comments)
Uncertain World: Agreeing to Disagree on Snowden
Matt Taibbi: Credit Card Collections As Fraudulent As Mortgage Collections?
Friday, July 12:
The Charade of Darrell Issa - By TIMOTHY EGAN NYTimes.com
Billionaire Koch Brother Says Eliminating The Minimum Wage Will Help The Poor (4 comments)
Amid acrimony, Senate moves toward historic vote to change its rules - The Washington Post
Elizabeth Warren Vows To Break Up Big Banks With Major New Legislative Push (6 comments)
Spooky Judgments: How Agents Think About Danger
Paul Krugman: Delusions of Populism (2 comments)
Thursday, July 11:
Abusing Nomination Votes to Change Policy - NYTimes.com
Diverging Saudi and Israeli strategic interests in post-Morsi Egypt
Ariana Huffington - 'Signature Strikes' and the President's Empty Rhetoric on Drones (1 comments)
Mitch McConnell's 30-Year Senate Legacy Leaves Kentucky In The Lurch
David Corn: Eliot Spitzer's Comeback -- and Why It May Be a Good Thing
Wednesday, July 10:
Innovation and Manufacturing, Perfect Together and Should Stay Together
Tuesday, July 9:
Browns Ferry: Shrinking the safety margin at Alabama's largest nuclear plant
How the NSA Targets Germany and Europe
Monday, July 8:
The George Zimmerman trial is the worst fear of every black family (1 comments)
Daniel Ellsberg: NSA leaker Snowden made the right call
The NSA's mass and indiscriminate spying on Brazilians
Daniel Ellsberg: NSA leaker Snowden made the right call
Independence Day? We Still Pay Taxes to the Queen in 2013! (1 comments)
Paul Krugman: Defining Prosperity Down
Sunday, July 7:
20 More Hysterical Misspelled Tea Party Signs! (Image Gallery) (1 comments)
Saturday, July 6:
Frank Rich: When Privacy Jumped The Shark
Texas to Legalize Rape Since It Doesn't Lead to Pregnancy (3 comments)
Texas Lawmakers Too Busy Targeting Abortion Providers to Deal With Exploding Fertilizer Plants (1 comments)
Friday, July 5:
Wednesday, July 3:
Scalia's son headlines anti-gay, ex-gay conference
Just how low can the Republican party go? (1 comments)
Ted Nugent "Thinking About" Running For President (4 comments)
Why Edward Snowden's Leaks Have Empowered All of Us | Alternet
Tuesday, July 2:
Robert Redford: We Need Climate Action on All Fronts
How the 1% is privatizing the $600bn public education budget (1 comments)
Monday, July 1:
The Hillary Clinton 2016 fantasy (4 comments)
Plan Bay Area -- A Shocking Theft Of Our Democracy : Public Comment from The Berkeley Daily Planet (7 comments)
Paul Krugman: War On the Unemployed (1 comments)