Legalize it: Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau, an unlikely supporter of medicinal marijuana, has teamed up with toker/pundit Montel Williams.

The Republicans' claim that they're patriotic compassionate conservatives is, of course, a whole oil tanker full of lies.

Some Republicans aren't all bad. I might have been a "radical Republican" back in the day. Who's your inner Republican?

How much more obvious can it get? 9/11 Commission finds no Iraq/al-Qaeda link in the 9/11 attacks.

From the archives of Foreign Policy magazine: Americans are on the whole a pretty nationalistic bunch. So why can't Americans understand the nationalism of, say, Iraqis?

What's this? A CEO of a major corporation that sees high wages for low-level workers as a good thing?

Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi slams the World Bank for continuing to lend to dictators, and demanding full repayment even after they're gone.

25 or so military officers and diplomats from both parties have issued a joint verbal bitch-slap at Bush, and are openly backing Kerry.