Electronic Pen

Robert Dreyfuss Obama seems to be hesitant to embrace Gen. McChrystal's request for more troops in Afghanistan. Does he know it's a quagmire?

• Ann Jones: Meet the Afghan Army

The Editors The Supreme Court is poised to overrule decisions restricting corporate speech in political campaigns.

• John Nichols: Moore-'Capitalism Is Legalized Greed'

Jeremy Scahill Two years after the Nisour Square massacre, Blackwater remains in Iraq, armed and dangerous.

• Flushing Blackwater

Sebastian Jones The racist, antigay, pro-gun, antichoice, Christian nationalist march on Washington that conservatives don't want you to see.

• Max Blumenthal: The Unauthorized 9/12 Teabagger Tour
• The Daily Show: Jon Stewart Slams Beck, Tea Party Protesters

Greg Kaufmann As the economy continues to hemorrhage jobs, Congressman Keith Ellison of Minnesota is introducing legislation to increase eligibility for free school lunches.

Robert Scheer A president has only so much capital to expend, and Barack Obama is dangerously overdrawn.

• Katrina vanden Heuvel: Obama Shows His Progressive Spine
• Leslie Savan: Take the Obama Conspiracy-Theory Challenge