Senator, You Used to Be a Pot Head -- Now You're Talking Like a Narc
By Norman Kent, AlterNet
A letter to GOP Sen. Norm Coleman from a former college friend asking why he supports brutal drug laws when he was an avid pot smoker as a young man.

Home Values Slashed in Half? The Housing Bubble Is About to Burst
By Dean Baker, TruthOut.org
A somber tour of the housing market.

Don't Misunderestimate Dick Cheney
By John Dean, FindLaw.com
It has long been apparent that Cheney's genius is that he lets George W. Bush get out of bed every morning actually believing he is the President. Also: shocking video of Colin Powell on Cheney's secret meetings with Bush.

Sorry, Thomas Friedman, the World Is Round
By Stephen Marshall, The Disinformation Company
In an excerpt from the new book, Wolves in Sheep's Clothing, Stephen Marshall takes on liberals like Friedman, who would have you believe that our capitalist system is inherently just and self-regulating when, in reality, it is anything but.

Christian Reconstructionists Are Trying to Take Dominion in America -- and They Have Powerful Friends
By Jeremy Leaming, Church and State
A recent conference held by American Vision, a radical ministry that toils away to "help Christians build a truly Biblical worldview," displayed the growing organization of the dangerous Reconstructionist movement.

Bush is Bluffing: The Farce of 'Executive Privilege'
By Eric Weiner, NPR Online
When the White House invoked executive privilege, it wasn't invoking anything in the Constitution. Here's an attempt to clarify Bush's murky argument.

High Schoolers Who Confronted Bush On Torture Tell Their Story
By Adam Howard
In a candid interview with Amy Goodman, two of the presidential scholars who presented Bush with a letter rebuking torture, explain why they "had to" do what they did.

One Student Does the Incredible: Gets Law Passed for State to Pay Off College Debts
By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Andrew Bossie found the staggering costs of tuition, books, and living expenses at college in Maine to be untenable. Working with fellow activists, his campaign eventually convinced the Legislature to offer a way out of debt.

Right-Wingers Are on the Defensive About Talk Radio Dominance
By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
A new report by the Center for American Progress and the Free Press has the right up-in-arms. Its message: right-wingers' dominance of talkradio is a classic market failure.

On July 4, Put Away the Flags
By Howard Zinn, Progressive Media Project
Is not nationalism -- that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder -- one of the great evils of our time?