When Did We Stop Caring About Civilian Deaths During Wartime?
By Robert Fisk —
I wonder if we are “normalizing” war. It’s not just that Israel has yet again gotten away with the killing of hundreds of children in Gaza.

The GOP’s Soundproof Room
By Eugene Robinson —
Unbeknown to the House Republicans who voted unanimously against President Obama’s stimulus package, we are in the midst of a rare fundamental shift in American politics.

Let the Limbaughs Whine
By Joe Conason —
How fortunate for Barack Obama that Rush Limbaugh, big radio personality and leader of the instinctual far right, has yet to retire to a sunny island with his bottles of pills.