saturday reads

A study of the Pentagon's satellite imagery concludes that ethnic cleansing -- not last year's surge of U.S. military forces -- is the main factor in the reduction of violence in Iraq.


Think Progress: Bush Compares The Financial Crisis He Created To The Terrorist Attacks He Never Saw Coming

Paul Kruman: Crisis Endgame

McCain on banking and health

Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.

False charges dropped against Democracy Now journalists.


A far-right group was forced to abandon a press conference launching a campaign against plans for a new mosque and Muslim immigration in the German city of Cologne yesterday, when protesters targeted them with stones and paint.


The freakshow that is 'Blacks Against Obama'.


Public Integrity, Redefined


America's new growth industry - show trials.


Dave, you can count me out too.


People with strongly conservative views were three times more fearful than staunch liberals.