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Robert Scheer The way he's headed on Afghanistan, President Obama is threatened with a quagmire that could bog down his presidency.

• Katrina vanden Heuvel: Feingold Gets Afghanistan Right

Video The Nation's Chris Hayes joins Rachel Maddow to discuss Dick Cheney's twisted defense of torture and the need for an investigation of Bush policies inspired by the 1970s Church Committee.

Katrina vanden Heuvel A year after the collapse of the US banking industry, the fat cats at the country's top banks still get astronomical bonuses. With so many Americans unemployed and uninsured, it's time to scale down.

Katrina vanden Heuvel Sen. Russ Feingold is way ahead of the Senate curve with his call for a timetable to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan.

• David Cortright: Opposing Escalation in Afghanistan

Patricia J. Williams What's really at stake for some of our gun-toting, demagogic fellow citizens is nothing less than America's very own Weimar moment.

Nation Slide Show A tribute to the late, great 'Liberal Lion' of the Senate whose dream of a more compassionate nation was an inspiration for decades.

• Remembering the Real Deal
• The Senate's Fighting Liberal

Norman Birnbaum Sen. Ted Kennedy was recognized worldwide as a leader of the American left. What is less recognized is his connection to a social justice-oriented Catholic faith.

Christopher Hayes An effective investigation into the breadth of the CIA's interrogation programs must be bipartisan, similar to the work of the Church Committee in the 1970s.